There will always be a high end, but the truth is that, especially when it comes to electronics, the average person can't tell the difference. Of those that ca

There will always be a high end, but the truth is that, especially when it comes to electronics, the average person can't tell the difference. Of those that can, only a given percentage will pay for that difference. And as a technology matures, you will always have increasingly diminishing returns as price increases. Just a couple days ago, I overheard someone comment that they can't really tell the difference between an HD and SD broadcast. While most people aren't that bad, try getting the average person off the street to be able to tell the difference between a Pioneer or Hitachi TV and a Vizio, or the resulting pictures taken from any halfway decent digital camera. Every niche has its own set of hackers, but they're almost always vastly in the minority.