Joseph DeMartino
Senior HTF Member
As others have noted, on paper DIVX seemed like the hands-down winner in the last big format war. And Sony has tried to push other formats in the U.S. market and ended up with egg on its face, so I still say it is way too early for anyone to be countin' chickens.
1) But who do you talk to, and what kind of sites do you tend to visit on the 'net? If I hang out on the "Left-handed Freshwater Fisherman's Forum" and spend all weekend fishing with my left-handed budies in freshwater lakes and streams, I could probably "prove" that the tackle industry should stop making salt-water gear altogether and that all fishing reels should be built for left-handers. But I'm not going to have any idea about the real state of the market because I've been hanging out in an echo chamber and the only voices I tend to hear are reflections of my own.
2) The plural of "anecdote" is not "data". Without large samples, demographic adjustments and careful questions you can't produce worthwhile opinion data. It doesn't matter how many people you hear something from if they're not a representative group. (See #1 above.)
BTW, Joe Schwartz is right. "In lieu of" means "in place of", and you clearly didn't mean that people were planning to buy their first HDTV instead of an XBox360 or PS3.
Regards,
Joe
1) But who do you talk to, and what kind of sites do you tend to visit on the 'net? If I hang out on the "Left-handed Freshwater Fisherman's Forum" and spend all weekend fishing with my left-handed budies in freshwater lakes and streams, I could probably "prove" that the tackle industry should stop making salt-water gear altogether and that all fishing reels should be built for left-handers. But I'm not going to have any idea about the real state of the market because I've been hanging out in an echo chamber and the only voices I tend to hear are reflections of my own.
2) The plural of "anecdote" is not "data". Without large samples, demographic adjustments and careful questions you can't produce worthwhile opinion data. It doesn't matter how many people you hear something from if they're not a representative group. (See #1 above.)
BTW, Joe Schwartz is right. "In lieu of" means "in place of", and you clearly didn't mean that people were planning to buy their first HDTV instead of an XBox360 or PS3.
Regards,
Joe