Is Quality These days Excessive?

My parents bought one of those new HD or DNA TVs that apparently make the movies you watch appear blue-ray, which is on top of the new blue-ray they already have. And when they watched some movies on it I thought, "There's just so much stuff forced on this to make it look good that it looks cheap."

I tend to get into this discussion with people because I feel like we are trying so hard to make everything "high-quality" that we conversely ruin the quality instead. HD, Blue-Ray, 3D, HDNA, Auto-Tuning, etc. it's just all so excessive to me that I worry about what we'll have to look forward to in our future with the next generations. It'd be a real budget-saver if we'd put more money into our food-economy than installing new HDNA-3D TVs in our dens that's for sure.