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Comment COST-OF-FAILURE is missing from the calculation (Score 1) 400

25 incandescents = 2.5 CFLs = 1 LEDs - why are people only talking about how great that is? Where the evaluation of the impact on cost-of-failure (25 times higher for LEDs). To make an informed decision, cost of failure needs to be part of the equation. What the probability blubs are dead-on-arrival? what's the probability they stop functioning optimally/at all after 500 hours? 1.000 hours? 5.000? 10.000? Without knowing the answers to the above questions (which has huge impacts on the final cost of the product in the life cycle of the product), the attractiveness of LEDs cannot be correctly I assessed. AND, unless LEDs are 99.9999% reliable, LEDs are still an unattractive option financially, unless you get product-lifetime guarantees with free replacements with your purchase. Environmentally they seem like a good option (dependent on reliability vs. alternatives)

Comment The Danish are already doing it (Score 3, Interesting) 326

starting this coming monday, danish TV station, TV2, will announce 250movies for download on their widely successful www.sputnik.dk TV2 station. Prices pr movie will likely be around $6, which is what is costs to rent a movie in Blockbuster here. They will add 250 movies each year until 2010 (obviously, this will likely change, but that is what they're currently saying). The movies will be streamed in in WMV format.

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