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Blu-ray Adoption Soft, More Still Own HD DVD
MojoKid writes "A new study by Harris Interactive notes that currently,
one in ten Americans (10%) own an HD DVD player, while just 7% own a Blu-ray player. Crazy, right?
More Americans own HD DVD right now than the 'winning' format, Blu-ray. If you think about it, that statistic isn't that shocking. When HD DVD was around, it was far and away the 'budget' format for high-def. The players were cheaper, the films were cheaper. In other words, it was a format more ready to thrive in a down economy. Blu-ray was always viewed as a niche format for those absorbed in A/V, not the common man's format. The survey also found that on average, consumers purchased approximately six standard format DVDs in the last six months, compared with one in HD DVD format."
It should be obvious to eeveryone why blu-ray isn't doing any good.
First, most people don't have high definition TVs. Without hi-def, blu-ray gives you no advantage whatever over DVD.
DVDs cost half or less than blu-ray
Blu-ray players are expensive, DVD players are dirt cheap
Even if you have a hi-def TV, unless it's a monster screen you're not going to gain more than a minimally better picture unless (again) it's a HUGE screen.
If everyone had sixty inch hi-def TVs, blu-ray would make sense. As it is, it's only for vanity (like buying an Escalade) with little gain over the far cheaper DVDs.
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Why would anyone want to promote ANT Sony product or format? Sony is the anyigoogle, its motto is "be evil". I can't fathom anyone wanting to buy a product from a company that has placed rootkits on music CDs to infect their paying customers with.
I can understand a non-nerd not knowing about Sony's blatantly evil tendancies, but we should all know better. I mean, if Google knowingly put malware on their site, wouldn't you start using MS or Yahoo? I would.
As long as there is an alternative to Sony, I'll pick the alternative. Sony is simply not trustworthy.
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