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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I hadn't jumped on the HD DVD wagon until Microsoft's XBOX 360 HD DVD Player dropped to $49. To me it was a heck of a deal even though the HD DVD format lost out to Blu-ray. ($49 = HD DVD Player, Alternative Drive for my 360 to use instead of burning up my main drive watching movies, 1 Free Movie - King Kong HD, Media Center remote & 5 Free HD DVD's thanks to the Toshiba rebat.)
I looked at Best Buy for HD DVD movies to stock up before they were extinct. However Amazon had a heck of a better deal at an average of 52% off normal price. I picked of the Discovery Channel's HD DVD version of Planet Earth for $25 brand new (normally $79). Just placed an order for DVE: HD Basics on HD DVD which the guys over at Guide to New Home Theater (http://www.guidetohometheater.com/testtools/308dve/) rated slightly better than the Blu-ray version.
I'm new to HD DVD...will buy Blu-ray once the players drop in price. Have two HD TV's at home...so life is good.
I'm sorry you're wasting your money.
Why don't I just give you my address and you can mail it to me instead.
Fill me in on how that's a waste of money. 1.) Extends the life of my XBOX 360, 2.) I now have 6 of my favorite movies available in HD to watch for the rest of my life, plus what I mentioned above. To me that's worth a measely $49.
Yes that's right Bill, shame on you for wasting such a trivial amount of YOUR money on such a bargain!
Why didn't you spend $400 on an obsolete profile 1.0 BR player instead!
Yeah, Bill you are a looser for using YOUR money to buy something at a very cheap price that is of high quality and will give you lots of enjoyment. Go run your head into a tree and in your dazed and confused state, go buy an extremely overpriced bd player that is not upgradeable and then go buy those same movies you got for cheap for three times as much. LOOSER! :)
Don't worry Bill, it's just the Blu-ray gang starting to realise that outsides of the confines of their PS3 niche almost no-one is bothering with Blu-ray.
..... and nor will they for a long time - which will be way too long a delay for Blu-ray to survive in fact.
Fill your boots with inexpensive HD DVDs and get those high quality high def movies right now at a price that can't be beaten
(not even by their SD DVD counter-parts).
Like more than a few of us you might even consider buying a very cheap new 2nd HD DVD player to tuck away & cover you in the event of damages/breakdowns for the next 10yrs or so (if you want to be a real skin-flint the bare PC HD DVD ROM drive is now available brand new @ under £18/$36).
All for far less than the alternative Blu-ray option.
Blu-ray is a dead format too, it just hasn't realised it yet.
.....but it has begun to dawn on some of the Blu-ray fanclub, some of them have started to realise & worry it's going that way, hence the pathetic & laughable 'wall of whining' when, despite all their relentless evangelising for Blu-ray & bashing HD DVD, people still keep buying up the 'dead' HD DVD stuff.
It's pretty funny really.