
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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Before anyone says this is stupid or ridiculous or impossible, I just wanted to say that it's really not that ridiculous. It's the law of diminishing returns. At some point the black level ratio is so high, it just doesn't matter anymore and the human eye begins to lose the ability to tell the difference between one ratio and another. So when the ratio becomes so high, to the human eye it's essentially infinite. And if there's any technology that can do it, it's plasma. If LCD ever kills plasma, i'm just gonna cry.