Which begs the original question: Why aren't DVD players, the wallmart-type, free?

Which brings up another interesting point. I remember when DVD players were over $1000, and now they have come down to ~$30, 1/30th of the price. Receivers, speakers, and TV's have not followed the same trend. I would even venture to say that TV's, even if considering the falling dollar, have gone up in price.

My original argument was that the reason DVD players came down is because they were geared towards the sale & rental of another comodity, ie DVD's. Shouldn't the same hold true for TV's? These are essentially a way for people to get hoodwinked into some type of subscription-based service such as cable, Tivo, and also by extention, DVD's.