The number of televisions estimated that sit unused in closets.
The EPA estimates that nearly 100 million unused televisions are currently taking up precious, beautiful space. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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Good thing they helped Paramount avoid issues with Iron Man and Universal side step issues with Hulk. Don't know if the latter was rooted in software or replication, but sure would be nice to have some QC BEFORE the shrink wrap goes on.
At least we're not seeing stuff like some of the first laser discs. I saw one LD that had a bug in the plastic. Needless to say it caused a read error.
Paramounts issues were self inflicted and wouldn't have been found by testing the disk. If you're going to make a disc that without consent hits some server and downloads content then you had better be sure your servers can handle the load. Discs definitely needs decent quality control though. BD-J is a Java profile. Different players have different runtime implementations and even the odd bug that needs a workaround. Proper QA is the only way to catch such issues early enough to fix them.
Actually no, they also had a recall as well. The first discs that came out would not work on any Sony or Samsung players (and possibly others).