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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Wake me up when TVs are being built with tru2way slots. Replacing a cable box with a cable box that has a tru2way card doesn't get me much of anywhere.
Exactly. There's no reason cable providers can't send out all the HD channels the way we used to get analog cable - just plugging in the coax to the back of the tv. However they want us to buy their VOD crap so they scramble everything to force us into a box. I refuse that and is one reason why I don't have cable anymore. At least a tru2way slot in the tv is 'most' of the way it used to be...
I agree that a tru2way box is not very interesting if it is nothing more than a cable box, but what if it provides other functions? A tru2way box could potentially serve as a cable box, DVR, media streamer, bluray player, etc. This is where tru2way gets interesting.
To respond to UnnDunn above, just because the box has to be able to run the software from the cable company, that doesn't preclude the box from performing other functions.