I hope the CFL bulbs you bought had handling/disposal instructions on them: CFL bulbs contain mercury. Mercury damn it - mercury! Can you imagine how many of these CFL bulbs break every year, and how many of those weren't handled properly during the cleanup? I wonder how many people are just chucking the CFL bulbs in the garbage (in Brampton, ON, they're supposed to go the community recycling centre, which has a hazardous house waste disposal facility too).
I really like that CFL bulbs use little power, but the mercury content is a problem. I'm surprised no one talks about it.
I think the potential for larger capacity discs is greater with BD than it is HD-DVD. After all, BD already has a 50GB standard, and there has been recent announcements of BD going much higher.
In any case, I think BD is going to win by default because of the PS3. Even if PS3 sales are mediocre compared to the PS2, that will still mean tens of millions of BD players out there. That should be enough to convince the content people to stick with BD.
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I hope the CFL bulbs you bought had handling/disposal instructions on them: CFL bulbs contain mercury. Mercury damn it - mercury! Can you imagine how many of these CFL bulbs break every year, and how many of those weren't handled properly during the cleanup? I wonder how many people are just chucking the CFL bulbs in the garbage (in Brampton, ON, they're supposed to go the community recycling centre, which has a hazardous house waste disposal facility too). I really like that CFL bulbs use little power, but the mercury content is a problem. I'm surprised no one talks about it.
I think the potential for larger capacity discs is greater with BD than it is HD-DVD. After all, BD already has a 50GB standard, and there has been recent announcements of BD going much higher. In any case, I think BD is going to win by default because of the PS3. Even if PS3 sales are mediocre compared to the PS2, that will still mean tens of millions of BD players out there. That should be enough to convince the content people to stick with BD.