First they were just considered extremely cool, and then they were considered part of leading a high lifestyle. Now they are just the standard TVs. An average home these days will have one, if not two ore more LCD or Plasma TVs. This may be because the prices for these attractive looking TV sets have gone down drastically or the fact that why settle for a smaller, choppier picture when you can have an enormous TV that weighs less that one a fraction of its size? Those big old TVs are just things of the past.