The percentage of returned gadgets that have nothing wrong with them.
Of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were actually broken, according to a 2008 study.
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Look at it this way. In the generic sense, a Blu-ray Disc player is a high-definition DVD player, so the quoted phrase above is reasonable. They could have spelled out "high-definition" as I did, but they used the well-understood shorthand. Never mind that "HD-DVD" is a specific trademark for a failed technology; they know as well as we do that it's dead and isn't relevant to the discussion. :-)
Actually, a blu-ray player isn't a high defintion DVD player. It is a high definition optical disc player, whose discs just happen to be called blu-ray discs. All DVDs are optical media, but not all optical media are DVDs. The terms DVD and optical disc are not interchangeable. DVDs are SD media, so high defintion DVDs don't exist. A blu-ray player is a player that plays blu-ray discs, not high definition DVDs (which don't exist). HD-DVDs are also not high defintion DVDs (even though that's what the acronym stands for), they are are a completely new format. If anything the lawsuit should have said "HD Optical Discs" or "HD Optical Media" or something like that because HD DVDs don't exist, HD-DVDs do, but not HD (high definition) DVDs. There are (okay were) 3 main optical formats, Blu-ray, HD-DVD, and DVD. Just tacking HD in front of DVD doesn't mean anything. Anyway, this is all semantics and i'm sure everyone involed knows what the lawsuit means, so in the end it doesn't really matter.
Actually, a blu-ray player isn't a high defintion DVD player. It is a high definition optical disc player, whose discs just happen to be called blu-ray discs. All DVDs are optical media, but not all optical media are DVDs. The terms DVD and optical disc are not interchangeable. DVDs are SD media, so high defintion DVDs don't exist. A blu-ray player is a player that plays blu-ray discs, not high definition DVDs (which don't exist). HD-DVDs are also not high defintion DVDs (even though that's what the acronym stands for), they are are a completely new format. If anything the lawsuit should have said "HD Optical Discs" or "HD Optical Media" or something like that because HD DVDs don't exist, HD-DVDs do, but not HD (high definition) DVDs. There are (okay were) 3 main optical formats, Blu-ray, HD-DVD, and DVD. Just tacking HD in front of DVD doesn't mean anything. Anyway, this is all semantics and i'm sure everyone involed knows what the lawsuit means, so in the end it doesn't really matter.
Ahhh....I don't believe that HD-DVD is a failed technology. It's simply a technology that was trampled into the ground by the Likes of Sony and their buckets of money. The technology is actually quite good. Sony just happened to be in the market for some payback after loosing in the Beta vs VHS wars.