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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I think I'll stick with optical media for another 10-15 years....thanks though THX for caring.
Like BD or hate it, I am SO sick of these idiots talking about digital downloads being the next big thing.
"I think I'll stick with optical media for another 10-15 years"
Just like people are sticking with CDs?
@ Larry
Umm yeah for the time being people are still buying CDs for the past 15-20 years. Sure MP3s are taking over, but bandwidth will not allow for GBs to be transferred as fast as everyone would like right now. Not to mention the space required for an HD movie to be stored is still pretty extensive.
When bandwidth increase and space to store HD gets cheaper, it'll go the way of the CD. But not yet.....nooot yet - Maximus 2001
Bandwidth to straight up download this amount of data is not there, but peer to peer downloads would sure make that easier. Still, done on a larger scale than the current P2P usage, you are right, download speeds would be horrific. This just puts a spotlight on how far behind our broadband internet offerings are here in the states compared to some of the state of the art implementations being used in Asia.