The number of televisions estimated that sit unused in closets.
The EPA estimates that nearly 100 million unused televisions are currently taking up precious, beautiful space. (source: EPA, July 2008)
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
I never recieved the 2 free movies that I was supposed to get with my DMP-BD10.
I've been convinced for some time that this war will come down to who sells the most standalone players by the end of this year. I don't regard PS3 (or XBox) as meaningful, as those buyers are only incidental DVD consumers.
Up to now, that has meant that the battle was between the low-cost HD DVD players (likely under @50 by XMas), and Blu-ray scare tactics trying to get folks to avoid investing in "the losing format."
There's been great danger of Sony waking up in January 2008 with 4 million new standalone HD DVD players out there to less than 500,000 BDs. No amount of PS3s would make up for that.
Now, Blu-ray has an actual competing product, which they might actually be selling for under $500 by Xmas. Those $1000 (and up) players were never going to make the XMas stocking, but these just might.
I know this is going to sound odd to folks who think that BDs current sales lead means something, but this puts blu-ray back in the war.