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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The 16x9 law would be enforced heavily by... Team America: World Police!
Come on, that's not at all what I'm saying. I was just saying it would be nice (read: "nice") for this generation of TVs to be as wide as most (not all) movies made today or for a consensus of filmmakers to agree on a common ratio for the foreseeable future. Obviously movie screens should not be cropped to 16x9 (that's definitely my mistake). Although my TV remote has a near-useless zoom function, someone will have to show me the zoom button on the PS3 Blu-ray remote (because there isn't one). But clearly it would be pointless to use due to quality compromising distortion and image cropping.
Of course I don't think black bars are "stealing pixels," and I don't advocate "distorting the picture" (Why jump to unfounded conclusions and resort to snarky, pseudo-intellectual "I'm-better-than-you" attempts at insults?).
I see there are true black bar lovers here. Personally, IMHO, I'd like to see them reduced from my daily field of vision, if possible. (read: But obviously not at the expense of the source material)