Another Report: Bluray Adoption Not What It Should Be
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Falcon01
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Few report owning Blu-ray disc players (4%), Sony PlayStation 3 (5%), HD DVD players (6%) and the HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360 (1% have external drive while 9% have an Xbox 360).
Only nine percent of non-Blu-ray player owners report being likely to purchase a Blu-ray disc player within the next year, even when made fully aware that Blu-ray is considered to be the definitive technology for high definition DVD players going forward.
Two-thirds of consumers are familiar with the recently resolved high-definition format war (67%) and seven in ten of them have heard that Blu-ray is the unofficial winner (69%).
Nearly a quarter (23%) of those aware of the format war report that they had been waiting for the rivalry to play itself out before purchasing a high definition player, but by April they had yet to do so.
Although one-third of consumers report owning a high definition television set (HDTV 35%), with incidence higher among males (41%) versus females (28%) and rising decidedly with household income (15% for those with less than $35K vs. 53% among those with $75K+), the percentage of HDTV owners likely to purchase a Blu-ray disc player is only 14 percent.
Current ownership of Blu-ray disc players among HDTV owners stands at 10 percent.
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080514006228&newsLang=en
There's more at the link.
Personally I'm deciding between the LG BH200 or the PS3.
[Post edited by Falcon01 on May 14, 2008 - CDT 3:12 PM]
bladerunner1
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Bosshog7
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View profile »Dude....Sony was WAYYYYY better at promoting the Blu Ray format than Toshiba with HD DVD, that's why Toshiba lost. I worry that the populace in general just doesn't care enough about the increase in quality they get....and that's why the poll results are what they are.
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View profile »Anyway, in January we had one wall unit - half Blu-ray, bottom half HD DVD. Now the HD DVDs are gone, and they just started their third wall unit. I also notice that a heck of a lot more movies are out too - at least 20 titles at a time. In January, I swear I might have been the only one renting either format ...
Lucily too, Rogers now is getting multiple copies of new Blu-ray releases so that I don't have to wait weeks before I can nab one like 2 months ago (well just 2 weeks now).
All annecdotal I know, but it's my "local indicator" at least.
bladerunner1
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View profile »Sony won on the allure of the playstation name.That is why all the studios flocked. And i'm sure a little cash was involved too. Their were more standalone hd-dvd players in peoples homes at the time of it's death than standalone blu- ray players. Toshiba knew from the very begining that they would be in trouble once the PS3 was released. This is the real reason for their "combo" disc. I cant think of too many formats that Toshiba has failed to launch, but Sony has had quite a few.