The amount of electronics thrown away rather than recycled in 2007.
The EPA reports that 82% of electronics disposal in 2007 ended up in the garbage (mostly landfills) rather than a recycling center. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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If you want to see your TV scale capture some OTA content on your PC and watch it in a window. Compare what you see to what you saw on your TV. Pay attention to the distance between the bug and the edge of the screen. You will see that your 720p tv is shaving some of your pixels off. Overscan is engineered into TV's by scaling the picture. You may also notice garbage on the edge of the non-overscanned image, usually across the top. There are TVs that support 1:1 pixel mappings, but not out of the box and then will see the garbage on the edge. This is a key difference between so called PC monitors and TVs.
Since all TVs scale one that scales to 1024x768 can theoretically look as good as one that displays 1280x720. It all depends on the quality of the scaler.
Obviously, theoretically more pixels are better, but not if the TV has a bad scaler.