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)
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What's worse is that they have no idea what they're talking about when they spew out random jabs like "higher bit rates on Blu-ray." They automatically assume more is better/superior. A skilled compressionist can do an excellent job with the medium average bit rates offered on HD DVD. As codecs improve (likely 50% over the course of its use), bit rates will become wholly irrelevant as they did on DVD. The MPEG-2 encoders now are so efficient that it's remarkable how good DVD picture quality can get on modern releases.