Hmm, glad NOT to live in Australia then. Even my cellphone has 3 megabit (3G HSDPA) nowadays without download limit, for less than you pay (10 Euro a month).

Slightly off topic, but to those people who replied that they even have higher speeds: I said that in the Netherlands 4 megabits is about the minimum. I myself have now 20, which will be upgraded at the same price to 50 in the next two months and to 80 before year end.

Love that broadband competition ;-)

@Hermiod: difference of course is that reinstalling Windows costs half a day and, because it is better to do a clean install, also loses installed programs.
Updating PS3 firmware on the other hand is done in minutes with everything installed and configured intact. And that includes downloading.

So who cares if the upgrade file is 140MB or 10MB if it is done in minutes? Maybe those with a seriously slow internet connection (but here in the Netherlands at least almost all people who own a PS3 in the first place have at minimum a 4 megabit internet connection).

Actually the EU was preparing to sue Apple over the iPod/iTunes. But the recent move to DRM free music probably will prevent that.

Also, see this overview on the site of the EU itself: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/cartels/statistics/statistics.pdf. Microsoft is apparently not in yet (1.35 billiion US$ would make 1 billion Euro). So while Microsoft might be the biggest case so far, most of the rest of the Top 10 actually are EU companies.

Year Undertaking** Case Amount in €*
2008 Saint Gobain Car glass 896.000.000
2007 ThyssenKrupp Elevators and escalators 479.669.850
2001 F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG Vitamins 462.000.000
2007 Siemens AG Gas insulated switchgear 396.562.500
2008 Pilkington Car glass 370.000.000
2008 Sasol Ltd Candle waxes 318.200.000
2006 Eni SpA Synthetic rubber 272.250.000
2002 Lafarge SA Plasterboard 249.600.000
2001 BASF AG Vitamins 236.845.000
2007 Otis Elevators and escalators 224.932.950

Ehm... Norway is NOT part of the European Union. So the suggestion that the EU starts this to help Opera is clearly nonsense.

For the rest: please be assured that the European Commission is just as busy prosecuting EU companies as they are of none-EU companies. So the claim that they do so just to protect EU's own business is just not supported by the facts.

Well, I am one of those suckers that bought the standard DVDs because I could not wait AND the SE DVDs because they were way better, so without any doubt I would be buying it again on BluRay on release.

Can't wait!

And 350 lbs as a limit is actually an issue in the US? Boy, thought I was overweight.

Assuming that I am correct in assuming that the 350 lbs is the same as the 150 kg in Europe I do not think that this limit will pose any issue here. It even leaves me quite some room ;-)

Anyway: in my experience the Wii Balance Board is really really solid. Would not be surprised that it would take a lot more than 350lbs/150kg, but that Nintendo just wants to cover itself before someone of 160 kg is crazy enough to jump hard up and down on the board in stead of balancing.
If even a claim of people crashing their Wiimote into their TV stands a chance in the US, they better make the weight maximum claim WAY lower than it actually is.

Use the WiiFit for almost a month now (received it on the release date in the Netherlands on a pre-order) and I sincerely enjoy it.

Yes, I know it is not a complete substitute to real exercise. But it certainly beats doing nothing at all, and doing WiiFit exercise regularly is a lot easier to keep up with than the sport school. And, as I said, it is fun doing and trying to beat my girlfriend doing the same exercises.

I have a PlayStation 3, a full rig gaming PC and a Wii, and I have to say, the Wii is used most.

And, also here, no store in the country that has not sold out its WiiFit inventory on the pre-orders alone, no stock anywhere in the country, so it is certainly selling.

European here and already own one. It is serious fun and sure as hell is a lot more fun than the sport school.

And glad to say my Wii fit age is also 39 now after two weeks Wii Fit where my actual age is 35, considering my BMI a little (*cough*) too high, I do not consider that too bad....

What only is a pain that 30 minutes excercise basically takes you over an hour because all the explaining the Wii wants to do. Would have been much better IMHO if you could choose a training program of several excercises. Now you do choose one excercise, get it explained, do it, get a score, get back to menu, choose another excercise... cumbersome if you just want to do a daily training routine.

And I can confirm the 150kg upper weight limit (there is a sticker on the box and the board itself), and I can also confirm that it works fine if you are over 115kg (I am, just a little *cough*).

Even better: if you buy those players at Saturn, you get an 150 euro discount if you turn in your expensive paperweigth a.k.a. HD-DVD player.

See http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/29/german-retailer-discounting-sony-bdp-s300-for-hd-dvd-player-trad/