Everybody's sick and tired of these predictions? The top two posters here are the ones that I see b!tching the most. If you like it, buy it! If you don't, don't! Simple market economics will take care of the rest. Get over it!
It's not a matter whether I buy it or not. I can assure you I buy a lot more then regular folks. It's that why are we even having these statistics? They are only there to try to convince people Blu-ray is not a failure.
Okay, if it's not a failure, it will pick up, I agree with you.
And 50% might be in US. Whole world? No way. So what's the point of the research?
I just hate smoke and mirrors. I would appreciate them more if they worked on lowering prices and come out with fixed standard for Blu-ray so I don't have to repurchase players every year to use all features offered for the format. It's my right as a consumer and Blu-ray owner who spent thousands of dollars to be dissatisfied with it.
Yes, daaper, theese two posters are indeed the foremost trolls when it comes to Blu-ray. The simply can not accept that their format lost and that BD is doing quite well considering all the facts.
Netflix or other services of equal quality. Yeah right !
Of course THEY are sick and tired of any prediction that doesn't conform to their whishes.
What everybody is sick and tired about is these whiners constant attempt to spin any good news about BD.
I know you're not just some anti-BR crackpot (as a many make you out to be) and I see your point, but it's the same point that you've been stating for a while now. It's pretty obvious by now, this "research" isn't going to stop. Both sides just slant the stats to make themselves look right, which is why nobody is ever fully wrong. So why get so worked up over it? The more people post, the more it looks like this stuff is interesting to their readers, which it's not. People just use posts like this to start up the wars again. I'm just saying, it's been a long time now and these comments for BR posts are almost scripted at this point.
Maybe, but I think stories like this do EHD's credibility no good whatsoever.
The poll a few days ago showing HD DVD having more penetration than Blu-ray was absurd, and it deserved to be exposed as absurd. EHD seems to take the view however that any criticism of Blu-ray's performance must require a week or so of positive stories about that format.
If EHD was a fair friend of Blu-ray, and was prepared to criticize its flaws in an attempt to get them fixed, that would be one thing. But it isn't. EHD comes across as a mindless Blu-ray cheerleader, unable to handle the notion that the format might not be doing that well and constantly promoting the notion that there are no problems in Blu-ray land.
In other words, EHD looks ridiculous, more so than the idiots who posted that poll without doing a sanity check on the results.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
daaper @ Jun 26th 2009 2:12PM
Everybody's sick and tired of these predictions? The top two posters here are the ones that I see b!tching the most. If you like it, buy it! If you don't, don't! Simple market economics will take care of the rest. Get over it!
Bozster @ Jun 26th 2009 3:11PM
It's not a matter whether I buy it or not. I can assure you I buy a lot more then regular folks. It's that why are we even having these statistics? They are only there to try to convince people Blu-ray is not a failure.
Okay, if it's not a failure, it will pick up, I agree with you.
And 50% might be in US. Whole world? No way. So what's the point of the research?
I just hate smoke and mirrors. I would appreciate them more if they worked on lowering prices and come out with fixed standard for Blu-ray so I don't have to repurchase players every year to use all features offered for the format. It's my right as a consumer and Blu-ray owner who spent thousands of dollars to be dissatisfied with it.
Happy BD Owner @ Jun 26th 2009 3:25PM
Yes, daaper, theese two posters are indeed the foremost trolls when it comes to Blu-ray. The simply can not accept that their format lost and that BD is doing quite well considering all the facts.
Netflix or other services of equal quality. Yeah right !
Of course THEY are sick and tired of any prediction that doesn't conform to their whishes.
What everybody is sick and tired about is these whiners constant attempt to spin any good news about BD.
daaper @ Jun 26th 2009 3:25PM
I know you're not just some anti-BR crackpot (as a many make you out to be) and I see your point, but it's the same point that you've been stating for a while now. It's pretty obvious by now, this "research" isn't going to stop. Both sides just slant the stats to make themselves look right, which is why nobody is ever fully wrong. So why get so worked up over it? The more people post, the more it looks like this stuff is interesting to their readers, which it's not. People just use posts like this to start up the wars again. I'm just saying, it's been a long time now and these comments for BR posts are almost scripted at this point.
Bozster @ Jun 26th 2009 3:47PM
@daaper
true.. I agree.. maybe it gets repetitive. I should abstain for a little bit cause it's always the same things.
squiggleslash @ Jun 26th 2009 5:32PM
Maybe, but I think stories like this do EHD's credibility no good whatsoever.
The poll a few days ago showing HD DVD having more penetration than Blu-ray was absurd, and it deserved to be exposed as absurd. EHD seems to take the view however that any criticism of Blu-ray's performance must require a week or so of positive stories about that format.
If EHD was a fair friend of Blu-ray, and was prepared to criticize its flaws in an attempt to get them fixed, that would be one thing. But it isn't. EHD comes across as a mindless Blu-ray cheerleader, unable to handle the notion that the format might not be doing that well and constantly promoting the notion that there are no problems in Blu-ray land.
In other words, EHD looks ridiculous, more so than the idiots who posted that poll without doing a sanity check on the results.
What a mess.
DVD4ME @ Jun 26th 2009 9:41PM
Keep going Bozster, repetitive or not, so is the BDA BS, someone needs to be the voice of reason.