From: Randal Whittle (rwhittle_at_usa.net)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2000 - 14:48:23 EDT
At 07:13 AM 6/5/00 -1000, you wrote:
> > And your criteria for calling it "junk" would be what exactly?
> >
> > Feel free to criticize, but at least have some kind of logical
> > basis for it. Right now you're just hurling insults and not backing
> them up.
>
> Read the reviews on the newsgroups and on
>www.inmatrix.com. Currently, WinDVD, PowerDVD and anything based on
>Cinemaster is the only good thing available. It's not something that
>needs to be backed up since it's almost like Bose being a good stereo
>system, anyone who knows audio knows that Bose is nothing more than
>marketing.
Any layman who has *heard* Bose knows that comment is nothing more
than sour grapes.
Maybe it doesn't meet with the standards of a smartass audiophile
who likes to measure sound frequencies that the human ear is incapable of
hearing, but I've been happy as can be with my Bose speakers as well as the
Wave radio they sell.
And then there are people who will tell you how much better this
DVD player from Marantz that costs $1500 is than the $200 one from Sony,
but 99.9% of people couldn't tell the difference in the picture that each
delivers.
I suspect the same is true when it comes to software DVD players,
and the people you refer to in reviewing these things are likely
ivory-tower weenies, completely out of touch with what "normal" people care
(or don't care) about.
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