I think as people get older, the resolution matters, less and less. Maybe because eyesight, can go a bit downhill, as people get older.
Or maybe it's because "older" people remember analog television with over-the-air reception and/or VHS tapes and have much lower standards than people born and raised in the internet age 
That could be a factor as well. Expectations, potentially gradually change over the years (across a whole age connected generation).
Ironically, I have fond memories of analogue TV and video tape recorders. Because, somehow they seems to have a sort of infinite resolution, to the picture. Which doesn't seem to be reproduced these days. As long as there isn't a problem with the source, such as weak/noisy TV signals, worn out or poorly recorder tape and/or low quality video equipment, such as in some cases, rather cheap, bottom end equipment.
Another factor though, could be a humans minds ability, to make things that are from the past. Look shinier, more glossy, perfect and better, than perhaps they really were or would be these days.
Certainly, many are glad to see the back of the overly massive glass CRT tubed, TVs and monitors. Which could be in massive packages, and be extremely difficult to lift.
I can't remember exactly. But I think some of the older (past TV generations), wide screen, big screened TVs. Weighed something crazy, like 80 kgs, and could need at least two people to lift or move them (safely). They weren't even that good really (opinions can vary). The wide-screen ones, I mean, not the CRT concepts.
Maybe because in that era, only some of the content was for wide-screen TVs, the rest was for the almost 'square' (not really, but compared to the wide-screen ones, they partly are) TVs.