You're kidding, right? And deprive King George W of his last shot at the number one position? WOW.

This reminds me of the backwards interpretation of 'hacking' or 'stealing' a public/open Wi-Fi connection.

"Innocent until proven guilty" doesn't work when you have morons proving your guilt to other morons.

1. It is reasonable to assume a 100,000 MTBF for an LED. That is 11 years of constant use.
2. But that's a _MEAN_ time between failure. Not a guarantee.
3. A 47" TV could easily have 100 LEDs.
4. You're betting that all LEDs will follow the mean. Guess how many are going to fit outside of one standard deviation? Two standard deviations?
5. If you've had enough LEDs, you'd know that some *will* fail prematurely. Ask people who have run a number of LED christmas lights for two seasons.
6. Another example: one of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force LED displays on eBay? Did you see the one where a bottom LED was burned out? It happens more often than you'd like.
7. LEDs put out less light as they become older
8. White LEDs fade even worse as they become older because they put out UV light which hits against a white phosphor coating. That coating luminesces less and less over time.
9. Other issues can impact LED lifespan, such as heat.
10. A failure of a single LED will be apparent and will create a dark spot in the image.

I like LEDs myself, but experience is a cruel teacher. An expectation of 100 years before they dim is outrageous. Go to PlanetChristmas and ask them about how their LED based Christmas lights seem less intense when it comes to a second season.

Sounds great... except... think about what happens when one of those backlighting LEDs burns out. All of the sudden, your 'local dimming' become permanent. Sounds far worse than a stuck pixel, and it is guaranteed to happen.

"Where as the average kid will care less about DRM; most probably don't know what it is."

If it educates the younger set on what DRM is, and why they should hate it, then I really do hope Zune the best of luck. In fact, EFF might just serve itself well by GIVING these away!

YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF MICROSOFT. I DO.

The release version 1.0 of a product. It is really crappy and lacks all sorts of functionality that you would expect. But they get their foot out there and listen to ideas. They take some of those ideas and add it into v2.0. A bit better. They add what should have been in their initial release and make it v3.0. Good. Then they start adding in features and with version 4.0 on, you've got a solid product. So, yes, the article is correct. Zune v1.0? Forget it. Wait for the later versions which actually do something. That's the Microsoft way.