Last weeks poll was asking wether you would purchase a Blue-Ray or a HD-DVD drive when available in your country. Poll results seem to reflect the current overall situation in the market. Blue-Ray has a small lead with 33% of all votes followed by HD-DVD with 29% and None with 29% as well. A smaller margin will be waiting for hybrid drives (11%) and 9% will buy both formats.
Week 33 Poll Results and new Poll
I was asking you about your favorite video player in the last poll and most voters are actually using the program that I prefer as well called VLC, Video Lan Client. VLC managed to recieve 36% of all votes recieving as many votes as the mplayer, the windows media player and the bsplayer together. Realplayer and Quicktime only got 6% and 4% of the votes with others reaching 19%.
Poll Results and new Poll
I think it does not make sense to continue the current poll that is asking for your favorite search engine. Google is so dominant that the results would only change lightly if at all. The Google search engine recieved 94% of all votes, all others together recieved only 6% which is really low. It would be interesting to know why everyone is using Google and not MSN or Yahoo for example. Are Googles results better ? Is searching Google not that complicated ?
Last Weeks Poll Results and New Poll
I was asking you last week about your main activity on the internet: Communicating, Creating Content, Downloading, Gaming, Research and Shopping were the options. 40% of the voters selected downloading which is a big percentage. Creating Content was second with 27% of all votes. Guys, let me know about your websites, I´d be interested to take a look and even write an article if I like them. The third place with 12% each was taken by Research and Communicating on the Internet. Gaming was selected by 8% of all voters and shopping by 0%, guess not many women visit my site..
Death of Net Neutrality the clear number 1 fear
This poll results did not came unexpected: 41% of all voters stated that they feared the death of net neutrality the most, followed by trojans and virii (17%), spyware, hackers and nothing (10% each), phishing (5%), spam (4%) and finally Worms with 3%.
This is an overwhelming result and I thought I explain the net(work) neutrality concept for the ones who do not know what it is. Internet providers do one thing, they provide access to the internet and make sure that you recieve all the data that you request. It does not matter if you surf to the website of a big company like ebay (amazon, microsoft) or to my blog (hehe, or even smaller websites). All data get the same treatment, none is preferred over the other.
Poll Results and New Poll
I asked you in the last poll if you had the intention to buy a next-gen console system and if so which. 34% of all voters want to buy a Sony Playstation 3 despite the high price which is astounding to me. The Nintendo Wii is on the second place with 24% and the Microsoft Xbox 360 third making it to 17%. The rest has no intention to buy a console system. I will definatly stick with the Wii and see how the other systems perform. I don´t see much news about the Xbox 360 despite being on the market for a while.
What would you like to see on ghacks poll results
Okay the results are in and a new poll is online. I´d like to thank everyone who participated in the last poll and would like to comment shortly on the outcome. 27% of all voters would like to see more free stuff on ghacks, 23% more freeware and 21% Howtos. I guess those three already are a main focus on my site and I will continue to post articles covering those subjects. (don´t worry I will still post other articles as well.)
