世論 What Japan Thinks

At the start of December japan.internet.com published the results of an opinion poll conducted by goo Research into next generation DVD systems. 1,091 members of their monitor group successfully completed an internet-based questionnaire. 47.2% of the group was male, 21.2% in their twenties, 38.0% in their thirties, 28.1% in their forties, and 12.6% in their fifties.

I too am confused by the upcoming standards war, and have no particular urge to purchase either system, as almost all of the contents I currently watch is self-recorded video tapes, so I’ll probably end up getting whatever high-density DVD is fitted in the hard-disk recorder that I plan to buy sometime, although I suspect that standard DVD-based recorders might start dropping into a very attractive price band soon.

Out of the whole sample, 788, or 72.2% had heard of both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD, but the figures of awareness of one but not the other, or neither are not available.

From these 788, 6.8% understood the strong and weak points of both very well, and 30.5% knew them quite well. This is up from 24.6% in a previous survey.

Q1: Which type of player do you plan to buy? (Sample size=690)

	Votes	Percentage
Blu-Ray Disc	70	10.1%
HD DVD	25	3.6%
Both	6	0.9%
Won’t buy either until one wins	325	47.1%
Don’t know	256	37.1%
Other	8	1.2%

When asked how they would choose one or the other standard, the most popular choice, by 466 people, was on the title lineup. Next was on the features available, with 412 people; then 351 people choosing on the hardware player lineup, then 208 people choosing by the companies involved in the standards.

Q2: Do you know what the PlayStation3 has a built-in Blu-ray Disc player? (Sample size=not clear)

Yes	49.7%
No	50.3%

Q3: What do you think about the next generation DVD standards war? (Sample size=1,091)

Looking forward to it	30.2%
Troubled by it	61.2%
Other	8.6%