Yeah we could do that.
Is it 'worth' the hours, $Bs ... just now, in the course of things?

Seems to me that decisions about where to invest resources ought to at least consult some sort of Master Triage list -- and not, just do the familiar -- with no Sense whatsoever, of what is Adequate? VS "other things needing doing." That your scenario is apt to prevail only tells me that -still- ours is a kultur which has yet to grok even partially: what adequacy.. means -- in the setting of priorities that affect everyone, even the Amish -- who never have an upgrade worry.

Go for HDTV in a trice?
[When that is realized: there will be left No solitude for too-Very many, I wot.]
Why not FIX something on that List of a 1000+ criticalities? so easily tuned-out by our 24/7 entertainment? More 'home electronics' today means: Muricans forever remarketing stuff from China and never knowing Ohm's law. Build some clever new windmills? Roll-out and staple-up ne solar cells? 998 to go.