You know, one thing that bugs me about the 360 and the PS3 with regard to media playing is their insistence that each media player must be an app which requires a confirmation to exit.

On the 360, it lets me slide into the media player app as if it were part of the main menu structure, but God forbid I'd want to back out again in the same way. Instead, I must answer a prompt "do you want to exit Zune?".

On the PS3, in order to exit the Netflix or DVD players, I must perform a similar step.

Why? What data loss am I risking if I exit these player apps? Why is there a prompt?