Google Trends: Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD

[aphex]

Originally Posted by jd213

Heh, look at the one language where HD DVD outdoes Blu-Ray. It's Japanese, and as we all know Blu-Ray has been completely slaughtering HD-DUD in Japan.

So Google trends obviously have no link to actual sales trends.

They would probably search using katakana, hiragana, or kanji..
So this search probably isn't that useful for japanese results, I'd think

Anyways someone needs to tell eproduct wars to use the above chart and not the one they do use.

I know you can report classification errors, can anyone go ahead and send that info along to them?

[jd213]

Yeah, that's right, there are probably a lot of Japanese who would search for Blu-Ray in katakana instead of English. So if the katakana version was also included in the Google trends then Blu-Ray would most likely be ahead for Japanese as well.

[Deciazulado]

God we went through this last year. Lots of threads and posts about the spellings and why the term hd dvd emcompases almost everthing

Now IF you excuse me I want to go watch 2001 in Blu

[dobyblue]

What the frig? The Swedish language searches are almost 50/50 and the same for by country - Sweden and Finland.

Come on you amazingly-talented-at-hockey nations - get with da Blu!

[bhampton]

On the disc sales front, the war is between Blu Ray, HD DVD, and Standard DVD with Standard DVD way out in the lead.

On Google, the war is between Blu Ray, HD DUD, DVD and naughty pix and DVD actually still holds the lead!!!

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Blu-R...ate=all&sort=0

Edit- the link is work safe,.. it's just a google search comparasion graph

[iceman]

Originally Posted by aphex

Anyways someone needs to tell eproduct wars to use the above chart and not the one they do use.

I know you can report classification errors, can anyone go ahead and send that info along to them?

Good luck with that.

thedvdwars.com/eproductwars.com has been HD-DVD biased ever since they came online. Actually when only HD-DVD had been launched, they had a text on the site saying someting like this:

"We are not preferring any format, we are neutral bla bla etc... we are just suggesting that you buy into the current leader to make sure we only have one format.... bla bla etc".

Guess what happend when Blu-ray was launched and overtook the sales? The text was removed.

[The Don]

Originally Posted by Iceman

Good luck with that.

thedvdwars.com/eproductwars.com has been HD-DVD biased ever since they came online. Actually when only HD-DVD had been launched, they had a text on the site saying someting like this:

"We are not preferring any format, we are neutral bla bla etc... we are just suggesting that you buy into the current leader to make sure we only have one format.... bla bla etc".

Guess what happend when Blu-ray was launched and overtook the sales? The text was removed.

that's gay...