Blu-ray Disc Association challenging accuracy of Harris Poll

Jay · 06-25-2009, 08:29 PM

Last week, one of our contributor's (HTNut) wrote about statistics in a recent Harris Interactive Poll that showed the HD-DVD format holding ground against Blu-Ray.

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Just one in ten Americans (11%) own a HD DVD player
7% own a Blu-ray player.
9% own a Sony PLAYSTATION®3 (which plays Blu-ray )
3% have the external HD DVD drive for the Xbox® 360 (which plays HD DVDs).

Home Media Magazine reports that the BDA (Blu-Ray Disc Association) is now challenging the Harris with data from Adams Media Research.

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“This finding suggesting that HD DVD player penetration grew from 6% to 9% in the period since the Blu-ray victory in the format war simply can't be right,” he said. “Our research on shipments and retail sales of players suggests that some 340,000 homes had an HD DVD player by the end of 2008 vs. 3.1 million homes with a dedicated Blu-ray player, and 9 million homes with either a dedicated player, a PlayStation 3 or both.”

Whatever the case may be, Blu-Ray's market penetration is proceeding at a much slower rate than once predicted. With HD content easily accessible through "On Demand" services provided by cable and satellite providers, and streaming internet websites like hulu.com, one has to wonder if there will ever be a need for Blu-ray media.

divxhacker · 06-25-2009, 10:15 PM

I knew it. They want the HD-DVD format to go away for good. It won't go away, until producing blu-rays become much cheaper than they are now. I, myself am waiting... I hate buying new 500 gig hard drives every year for stuff I download.

bicker · 06-26-2009, 03:36 AM

Thanks for posting this. Some bozo in some other forum (I cannot remember which) is such a Blu-ray fanboi that he was caught up in emotive diarrhea in response to the Harris poll. I impressed upon him the importance of refuting the Harris poll with actual objective evidence, but he just wanted to spew without reason. Maybe I can use this rebuttal by Blu-ray as a lesson to teach the miscreant how to maturely respond to something.

Jay · 06-26-2009, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by bicker

Thanks for posting this. Some bozo in some other forum (I cannot remember which) is such a Blu-ray fanboi that he was caught up in emotive diarrhea in response to the Harris poll. I impressed upon him the importance of refuting the Harris poll with actual objective evidence, but he just wanted to spew without reason. Maybe I can use this rebuttal by Blu-ray as a lesson to teach the miscreant how to maturely respond to something.

Np. Speaking of spewing without reason: YouTube comments voted worst thing on the Internet - The Ampersand


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