I looked at the data sheet of the Cree XLamp MK-R and even though they state "Delivering up to 200 Lumens per Watt" in the header, looking closer the best I found was nominal 147.25 lm/W and top luminance bin = 157.51 lm/W (which I wonder if I can order and at what price?).

Forward voltage is 11.7V at 700mA = 8.19W

The highest lumen output I found was 1206lm at 5700K and 6500K at a CRI of 65, which makes an efficiency of:

1206lm / 8.19W = 147.25 lm/W

If you can live with such a low CRI and cold white then that isn't bad, but not even the best.

I have seen 150 lm/W from other manufacturers at 5000K and CRI 70, which is a more natural white and slightly better CRI and perhaps even with a better R9 (Red), but the Cree data sheet doesn't state the individual values of R1 to R14, it is difficult at this point to compare.

What is however very good of this Cree LED is the thermal resistance at 1.7 C/W. Together with the max. junction temp at 150C it provides a component that is very well suited for high power and high luminance lamps.

An interesting development, but not the 200 lm/W I was hoping to see.

So, if there is any competition in Japan, like DoCoMo and whoelse, why not change to those? And why doesn't everyone else? So, what is the catch?

"I would rather see an open standard become supported or used by Skype/Microsoft."

Yes, I agree, and with the knowledge of the history of Microsoft I would have to add:

"I would like to see the extinction of World hunger, end of all wars and a beautiful woman to all men, and vice versa, but ..."

that is not going to happen until Hell freezes over!

Or Microsoft runs out of money.

No, that's OK, you were right and I was wrong.

And as you can see, I got two comments from it, so probably a few didn't receive the message as I had intended, and I am now wiser than before.

So, thank you for the feedback! :-)

The right to play the content on any device I see fit? At any time?

When I have bought a tune or a video the producer shouldn't care where I play it as along as it is for myself or my household. Your rights stops at my front door.

And I am still not trying to convince anyone to pay a TV license for materials and I don't "fire up iPlayer and get the fucking video". So now you want to combine the consumers usage with a specific device?

I just want to be able to purchase a CD or DVD with music or video content on it. As simple as that.

Yes, of course, but I probably should have put a smiley there :-)

And did I write that I wanted the rights of the producer erased and leave the content provider in the cold? Please show me how you read that into it? (atarashii meagane katta ho ga ii kamoshirenai?).

It is a digital world, and the producer side, or what seems to be the defenders of the content producers have amalgamated too much political backing, actually leaving the consumers out in the cold, and I would like to move the balance the other way, even just a little.

And I am not trying to convince anyone to pay a TV license fee or any other fee. Where did I write that?
Actually, I just want content producers to concentrate on doing that, produce content and make it available on reasonable terms.

Today, too often some content is either not available or not on reasonable terms if it is.

No, it is about taking rights away from the consumer, in an attempt to enforce and manage the rights of the producer.

Unfortunately, it is often not really enforceable making people that attempts to use their fair-use rights into criminals, but still not providing the sought after control of the producers.

So, it is a loose-loose situation.

A great deal of re-thinking of the situation ought to be done.

Well, if drunken half naked cheerleaders appear at a party with Belgium beer, I'll be the first in line to join the party :-)

Other than that, I don't really understand your analogy to Belgians?

Except for being a 'constructed country' almost like Jugoslavia, I see a lot of good things about Belgium, and much better than any animal analogy. For example they speak much better French than those from the country called France, and they actually invented what is normally known as "French Fries".

Amd making the best beer in the world makes me wonder what makes you make the suggestion:

"then we're no better than animals, or Belgians."

Or do you in fact mean the very strong horses from Belgium, that I may not know to be known as "Belgians", but as they are horses, they are of course 'animals'?

Just curious.