Comments on: It’s Conclusive: HD DVD Wins Mind-Share Over Blu-ray

By: Marwin

Marwin — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:17:41 +0000

If you search for all different spellings of Blu-ray and HD DVD and add them together for each format then Blu-ray comes out on top, here's the query to use: (bluray)|(blu-ray)|(blu ray)|(blueray)|(blue-ray)|(blue ray), (hddvd)|(hd-dvd)|(hd dvd) The parenthesis is to search for that exact phrase and the "pipes" mean logical OR so they are summed together.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:16:57 +0000

agreeing with tom and phil. The first time I heard about BD from disney announcement of exclusivity sometime ago, I forgot what is it, and searched HD (for High-definition), DVD and Disney. So my search was HD + DVD + Disney.
Found Blu-ray from that.

By: michael

michael — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:57:55 +0000

more inconclusive than conclusive….some real news please??

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:13:21 +0000

Gotta agree with Tom, and it was the first that came to my mind as well. People Google HD DVD simply meaning “Hi Def DVD”, not thinking of a specific format. If HDDVD (the format) was instead named “Green-Ray”, you’d still see a huge amount of Google queries for HD DVD. The stats are meaningless.

Oh, and I have an HDDVD drive attached to my 360, and am hoping it is the format that wins out. These Google stats you present are meaningless nonetheless.

By: Pravin

Pravin — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:52:08 +0000

Thanks for your honest feedback, Tom, I really appreciate it. My desire is to not cover the format war aspect, but to just talk about HD DVD and be the “HD DVD Resource” as the site’s tagline says.

With no significant trade shows coming up, there are fewer opportunities to cover saber-rattling kinds of news, and there are actually a lot of “how-to” and tutorialish kinds of things I’ve been dying to put up.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:43:53 +0000

No. I’m discounting the information because it is irrelevent to which format has more support and cannot be interpretted to mean anything. And you are correct, BOTH sides like to interpret data in their own way and sometimes both are worng in their intrepretations. BUT I happened to see this article on your website so I commented. I have not seen such useless info on bluray.com yet. I look at both sites to keep an eye on what seems to be happening, and this article is clearly a biased intrepretation of absolutley nothing. Pravin, I don’t have a problem with you reporting HDDVD or BLURAY, BUT since this seems to be a pretty good site for REAL HDDVD inofrmation please keep it as unbiased as possible….so that people can have some REAL information, whether it is good or bad for HDDVD. It makes websites like your that much more trustworthy and respectable. So far, to be perfectly honest, Bluray.com which seems to be the most comparible site, seems to offer only real content. I like your site for info concerning HDDVD when it is real and nonobjective. Keep your personal feelings out of it, IF you want your site to be a true and respectable source of HDDVD information. This hd media war is getting annoying. lol (Pravin when its all over both sides will laugh!)

By: Pravin

Pravin — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:01:45 +0000

And that’s my point about all the reporting of stats and production of charts from everybody.

There’s always a way to interpret just about anything so that it makes your side look good.

Let me ask you, are you discounting this because you’re a Blu-ray supporter?

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:43:17 +0000

That really doesnt tell you much. A lot of people probably have no idea what any high definiton media is so they simply put in “hd” “dvd” to learn more. Well that obviously means that hddvd will yield lots of results. Pretty silly post that is mere speculation. Majority of people do not know about the various formats like we do and so common sense to put into google if you want to learn more about upgrading would be to add high definiton in front of dvd.

By: PrestoMovie

PrestoMovie — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:16:20 +0000

that’s interesting.

most of the reason for this is because people see an expensive blu ray player then they see a cheap and affordable HD DVD player and they get curious and look it up.