QUOTE
80 percent indicated they will buy Blu-ray movies and 75 percent said they use the PS3 as a primary device for viewing movies.
80 percent will buy Blu-ray because they were forced into blu-ray as the player type by buying the PS3.
75 percent use the PS3 as their primary device for watching movies. Regular DVD movies.
Polls are misleading. By wording it this way, they can make it sound like 75% of the people got the PS3 JUST do they could use it for Blu-ray movies. I want to see how many of that 75% use it as their HD MOVIE player.
QUOTE(calderra @ Jan 9 2007, 02:59 PM)
Yes, there are technically a lot fo BluRay players on the market due to PS3.
Yes, a lot of PS3 owners say they plan on buying BluRay.
...but not everyone who owns a PS3 will be buying BluRay movies, far less than 1million PS3s actually sold (watch how people abuse the 1M number), and although lots of PS3 owners claim they'll be buying BluRay, you can just look at the actual sales data for a rebuttal.
Also- does anyone see any reports on the ratio of HD-DVD to BluRay sold in standalone players? It'd be interesting to see how the mix actually works out among units people CHOSE to purchase instead of units they were forced to own when they wanted a PS3 (although there is some crossing there).
From an article hear a few days ago... not many stand alone blu-ray players have sold. This article is a joke.
---
About 695,000 consumers own either a Blu-ray or an HD-DVD player, according to Tom Adams of Adams Media Research. But only about 25,000 have purchased stand-alone Blu-ray players. Another 400,000 consumers have Blu-ray because they bought a Sony PS3 game console. Meanwhile, about 120,000 or so have a stand-alone HD-DVD player while about 150,000 have an HD-DVD upgrade kit for their Xbox 360 game consoles, Adams says
---
link
QUOTE(warlordship @ Jan 9 2007, 03:14 PM)
I want to see how many of that 75% use it as their HD MOVIE player.
Most of them probably. Even if the blueray-player wasnt the reason they bought a ps3, its still gonna be used. It would be pretty dumb to shell out 600 euro on a HD-DVD player if you already got a 'free' blueray-player. Speaking for myself, i'm gonna end up in the blueraycamp because i will own a ps3. But even though i also own a x360 i'm not likely to buy the HD-DVD addon. Why would i?
Also, when i buy the PS3 the blueray-player will be subsidized by sony. I will have to pay full price for a MS HD-DVD addon.