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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God Damn am I glad I got a 360 instead of a PS3.
XboxLive rocks!!
but the ps3's going to be the best thing ever soon only not yet...
PS3 wait wait wait ummm very soon, okay the first one didn't but the SEQUEL to __________ will REALLY show the PS3 shine. And when Home comes out in 201x it will put XBL to shame!
funny that Xbox beat Sony to its own HOME service
Xbox live is trash. You guys pay for what you could get for free on PC, except on PC, you get much more. You can get a 4850 Graphics card for $160, throw in a $100 CPU and you are killing 360 graphics, for less.
I think that's a solid set of updates (the Netflix thingy in particular) but I wouldn't discount what Sony may say today. They are likely to launch a download service, Home and we already know they have PVR functionality lined up. Maybe they even plan to beef up their browser & Flash plugin so they don't need an "exclusive" deal to stream Netflix movies.
About Netflix, Is it some quirk of the rental model that Netflix that lets them stream a movie they send to you in the post or did they toss a few $$$ at studios to let them stream their older titles? Streaming seems to be only available on a subset of titles so maybe some titles are just cheaper to stream than post on disc.