The Power of ONE Red Ant

[Blu Titan]

Ok...A lot of us are aware that Home Media Magazine routinelly runs polls in its website, and the results are published in their weekly magazine edition(Hence my excuse for posting this thread under "Blu-ray Technology and News). Last night I noticed a new poll in the website with the following heading: "What is the role of Blu-ray in the home entertainment market?" The voting options are: To replace DVD, To supplement DVD, and It's a niche product without wide appeal. I voted for the first option and the results were around: To replace DVD 56%,To supplement DVD 7%, and It's a niche product without wide appeal 37%. I checked a couple ot times last night and this morning and the ratios remained the same with very little "action". However, everything changed at around 8 AM today. I noticed that the % for "It's a niche product without wide appeal 37%" had increased; in fact as I refreshed the page it just kept increasing. "Something" just did NOT seem normal. So I voted again for "To Replaced DVD" and noticed that the vote was counted again. Apparently, you can vote as many times as you want and the poll will count the vote. I did my "format war" imitation and voted for 10 minutes, but it was an exercise in futility. The opposing voter (Red ant) voted and voted for three straight hours (I checked occasionally, and he was still at it) until the option of "It's a niche product without wide appeal" had over 60% of the votes Then he stopped voting, guess he accomplished his mission. Sorry for the rant, just wanted to make a couple of points. FIRST, the polls from HMM are 100% garbage and do not deserve ANY consideration. SECOND, there are STILL some isolated Red Ants that really DESPISE Blu-ray.


http://www.homemediamagazine.com/