Environmental Fees! How far will you go for the environment?

I am glad you posted this, so now I know to have my TV BEFORE I move to Canada. I really do believe that this is very stupid. I thought the video games got you coming and going. (To explain, you get a new game system at what now, like $300 low end? It comes with one game and one controller. Now, unless you are a total hermit or extremely stingy, you will want someone to play with you, so you have to buy up to three more controllers at about $25 each. Then, you don't want to play the same game over and over, so you get more games at about $50 a pop. Then, on some of the games, you need memory space so you don't have to start from the beginning each time, so you buy memory cards at anywhere from $17-30 each, depending on how much memory it has.) But back to the subject. They really have you by the jewels on this. First, the manufacturers make the crappy stuff for only one single reason, so you have to come back and spend more money in a few years. And as if that wasn't devious enough, now when you buy another one, they charge you an extra $25 because they know that you will be throwing that out in a few years too so that pays for the space?!? This is ridiculous. My suggestion to you. Unfortunately you will have to buy a high priced name brand well-known for its stability. That is the only way you will get around that tax for a while. Eventually it will burn out too, but if you get a good brand like that, at least you know that you have a good while before that happens.