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 noticed that they were talking about stamping BD-RE (rewritable discs). Is this a way to get around the stupid restriction that all stamped Blu-Ray discs have to have AACS licensing and protection? One of the things that drove many indies and porn producers to HD DVD during the format war was not having to pay for AACS.
It probably has more to with the cost of mastering. There is probably a threshold where its cheaper and faster to knock out 100 BD-REs than it is to produce a master plate.