| blizzid said: I agree that the results are skewed, but I think everyone doing math using "300+ million Americans" is doing it wrong. These kinds of figures wouldn't count individuals; they'd count households. (If a man buys a Blu-ray player for his home, his wife is considered a Blu-ray owner as well.) The number of households in the US was around 111 million is 2007. If you do the math again using 111 million instead of 300+ million, the numbers don't look so bad. Still off, but not by orders of magnitude. |
I had considered that when doing the calculations. However, the wording in the report does not state "households" as you would expect, but rather
"Just one in ten Americans (11%) own a HD DVD player while 7% own a Blu-ray player". Very unprofessional and misleading wording.
I would also agree that there are a percentage of people who mistakenly think that upscaling DVD = HDDVD, further skewing the results.
This is another example of a poor data set leading to poor results. I am surprised they would publish this "study" given the small study group and verifiably poor results.
