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'm not flaming, this actually sounds a very good thing, but isn't this going to make it even a shit load harder to sell an all ready overpriced stand alone BR player?
At the rate sony is going, they will have 99% BR market share and shut all the other CE companies out, they will be left with even less than what they have now!
Have a good point, but many people on the specialist AV forums (rightly or wrongly) refuse in principle to have what they perceive to be a kids games console at the heart of their AV setup, so whats right for one group, may not work for another group of users
Well its an addon, so it there if people want it or not. Similar to the HD DVD add on for the Xbox 360. I kinda think it would easy to sell, because now it can handle your HD gaming needs, HDTV needs, and HD movie watching needs. I do agree with what you said about Sony taking too much control of the Blu-Ray player market though.
And there in lies the danger with getting into bed with sony and letting them get on top!!
It was probably part of the grand plan knowing that greedy and monopolistic driven anti consumer company, destroy HD DVD and then work on your partners, control 95%+ of the BR market and have the monopoly all to yourself.