Bluray bitrate may be overkill, so what? If you have space to spare, why not use it? The final price will be the same, and the quality much better. A physical copy playing on your local machine doesn't have the bandwith limitations of a streaming service.

And Netflix can say whatever the want, but 1080p at 5 Mbps looks like shit, unless the scene is really static.

If you wanted to show the ordering then you would, or should, have shown the entire quote. I also made no claim that any attribute was any more important than the other, I can't type them out on top of each other and so I had to put them in a list in some order. Maybe the order is random. Maybe I saved the best for last.

The cost is probably more important than the rest since it's pretty easy to ignore some minor inconvenience to save money, people do that all the time. Same for safety, people do less safe things because it saves money. Energy density is also easy to ignore so long as it's not too far out of the norm. People might not care if they need a 30 gallon tank to hold the same energy they used to get in a 10 gallon tank of gasoline.

I'm pretty sure that the cost is more important than the energy density. When it comes to electric cars the cost is mostly in the vehicle, there's just a lot of cheap gas cars out there. Used cars are real cheap and there aren't that many used BEVs just yet to bring that cost down. If you want to argue total cost of ownership being lower then, while quite likely true, it requires someone willing and able to do that math. If this is proven true and it gets out to many buyers then that drives up prices on used BEVs, quite likely negating any savings.

Fukushima was not a total meltdown.

"Summary: Major fuel melting occurred early on in all three units, though the fuel remains essentially contained except for some volatile fission products vented early on, or released from unit 2 in mid-March, and some soluble ones which were leaking with the water, especially from unit 2, where the containment is evidently breached. Cooling is provided from external sources, using treated recycled water, with a stable heat removal path from the actual reactors to external heat sinks. Temperatures at the bottom of the reactor pressure vessels have decreased to well below boiling point and are stable. Access has been gained to all three reactor buildings, but dose rates remain high inside. Nitrogen is being injected into all three containment vessels and pressure vessels. Tepco declared "cold shutdown condition" in mid-December 2011 when radioactive releases had reduced to minimal levels."

From The world nuclear Association report on the accident. Basically the cores started to melt but never broke containment and then cooled down. Also, these are 60 year old plants. Can we please get licensing to make newer style plants that don't have the safety problems of LWRs. The anti-nuclear stance of the greens is getting brutally ironic.

I still have a working LaserDisc unit, and let me tell you DVD is way, way better.

First, the resolution. LaserDisc was about 580x420 for NTSC and 580x440 for PAL (interlaced), whereas DVD is 720x480 for NTSC and 720x576 for PAL (interlaced or progressive). Second, the compression. LaserDisc was encoded as composite color and recorded using PWM. It doesn't suffer the artifacts of digital codecs like blocking or ringing, but it suffers all the artifacts of composite signals, like abismal color separation and general blurriness.