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BobY · 08-07-2008, 02:43 PM

Wow, what a garbage article!

And I say that even as someone who has no interest in Blu-Ray and doesn't expect it to become more than a niche format.

So they can extrapolate from 1000 responses, only half of which said they weren't interested, that nobody is interested? Despite 23% who indicated they are interested? The logic is boggling.

The actual ABI survey is a bit more scientifically based, but even so, the conclusions are suspect:

http://www.abiresearch.com/products/...Survey+Results

I do have to point out that their statement "While you might think gamers purchase fewer movie discs than others, we didn't see any significant evidence of that in our results" is also garbage--all you need to do is look at the number of BD discs sold compared to the number of PS3's sold to obviously see there is a very large group of PS3 owners who are not buying any discs.

The PDF article linked to which "showed that Blu-ray adoption had outpaced DVD adoption" is also garbage. Firstly, it's only for Europe and secondly it only counts player sales, counting every PS3 as a BD player. Actual disc unit sales put Blu-Ray far, far behind DVD at this point in it's life, even though BD has more players in the field (as a result of PS3) than DVD did at the same point in it's life.

08-07-2008, 02:43 PM	#7
BobY What's all this, then?... Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,197	Wow, what a garbage article! And I say that even as someone who has no interest in Blu-Ray and doesn't expect it to become more than a niche format. So they can extrapolate from 1000 responses, only half of which said they weren't interested, that nobody is interested? Despite 23% who indicated they are interested? The logic is boggling. The actual ABI survey is a bit more scientifically based, but even so, the conclusions are suspect: http://www.abiresearch.com/products/...Survey+Results I do have to point out that their statement "While you might think gamers purchase fewer movie discs than others, we didn't see any significant evidence of that in our results" is also garbage--all you need to do is look at the number of BD discs sold compared to the number of PS3's sold to obviously see there is a very large group of PS3 owners who are not buying any discs. The PDF article linked to which "showed that Blu-ray adoption had outpaced DVD adoption" is also garbage. Firstly, it's only for Europe and secondly it only counts player sales, counting every PS3 as a BD player. Actual disc unit sales put Blu-Ray far, far behind DVD at this point in it's life, even though BD has more players in the field (as a result of PS3) than DVD did at the same point in it's life. Last edited by BobY; 08-07-2008 at 02:46 PM.