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Re: HD-DVD, Blu Ray forums on AVS Forum shut down because of physical threats

Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 11/08/07 22:31

In article <ElLYi.4942$sN.4875@trndny02>,
Derek Janssen <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:

> Tantalust wrote:
>
> > "AirRaid" <airraid22@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:1194547503.070333.117620@s15g2000prm.googlegroups.com...
> >
> >>http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/format-war-gets-more-warlike/
> >>
> >>geeez.
> >
> > Yikes . . .
> >
> > I guess I'm not all *that* surprised, the place is crawling with so many
> > incredible jerks these days. :-/
> >
> > What a wonderful forum it was years ago.
>
> Over on the Blu-ray.com forums (like we're neutral either), AVS Forums
> had become a symbolic punchline/buzzword for the schoolyard tactics and
> general hinder-talking that was being demonstrated by the more rabid
> HDDVD supporters as public support dwindled--
>
> Microsoft's own consumer media head Amir Majidimehr was a protected
> "celebrity" on the HD forum and had been narcissistically self-promoting
> King Bully on the playground--and with some of the most howling PR
> propaganda/misinformation this side of Ken Graffeo--before he also had
> to make an unscheduled exit from the Forums.
> The kids on the BR forums would say "Did you see what they said this
> week?--Let's go over there and get 'em!", and the regulars would calm
> them down with "Why bother, they'll just make more..."
>
> Derek Janssen
> ejanss1@verizon.net

in the meantime, the bluray forums were dropping anyone that said a
disparaging word about anything bluray...

AVS forums is more balanced that any of the fanboi sites/forums. For
every rabid HDDVD freak, there are that many rabid Bluray freaks, both
spouting misinformation at every increasing rates.

 

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