Posted by Mark & Mary Ann Weiss on 08/13/07 20:04

"FCP User" <newvideo@fastq.com> wrote in message
news:newvideo-30554B.23195808082007@news.west.cox.net...
>
> >
> > The moderator over at DVinfo.net has been holding up my membership
> > application to that discussion group as well, probably knowing that I
tend
> > to shake up the dirt wherever I go.
>
> Someone posted a link to r.v.p and this discussion over on dvinfo.net
> where I saw it.
>
> So while it's an old thread, it was referenced there just yesterday -
> so...

Yes, and I have to make a statement that one individual on that thread, who
happens to have some credentials, is making outright false statements about
my measurements, my cameras, their origin, etc. My cameras are NOT grey
market; both of them test the same, one was purchased at B&H and is
definately NOT grey market. Meanwhile, this gentleman is doing a grave
disservice to the video community by trying to quell efforts to get Sony to
recall the V1U and fix this problem. My efforts may benefit all V1U users,
if Sony agrees to correct the problem.
I don't have anything against Sony. I just want my cameras to work well. At
least make the HP filter defeatable, for those of us who don't like the
"megaphone" frequency response of the V1U.

It is becoming clear that a few other people on DVinfo are discovering that
the audio on the V1U isn't even as good as most consumer HDV and DV cameras.
But this one gentlemen is misusing his reputation to try and suppress the
facts. I have to conclude that Sony has opened their generosity to him and
his organization over the years and as such, he is motivated to defend
Sony's products, even if there are glaring defects. Even if he has to make
patently false statements about me, my qualifications and the operational
state of my cameras.



> Regarding the above comment:
>
> I've known Chris Hurd who owns and operates DVinfo.net for about 10
> years now.

I was interviewed by Chris in 1997, when he was operating a pirate radio
station in San Marcos, known as KIND Radio. I knew him for the same amount
of time.


> His board STARTED as the place where XL-1 owners came to gripe about
> issues. But I think he realized early that bitching - in and of itself -
> doesn't solve anything. So he got wise and instituted a "no trash
> talking" policy that is still firmly in place today.

> Point 1. It's HIS board. He can do whatever he likes with it.

Correct. However, it becomes problematic when two or more individuals use
his board as a forum to libel my name. It is only reasonable that I should
be able to respond and refute these absurd claims.


> Point 2. Yeah, he has pretty high standards of civility and decorum for
> posts there. (In fact, I've had his moderators remove MY posts once or
> twice when I've gotten mouthy - and I'm handshake friends with the guy!

> So I'll attest that his policy of civility is VERY consistently and
> evenly administered. Personally I think his board greatly benefits from
> the sense of community it fosters. No wonder it's so popular.

I agree. The content there is of excellent quality and is free of the
bitch-fests of USEnet.

>
> I don't know anything about your situation regarding posting there, but
> if your goal is really to "shake up the dirt" everywhere - I can
> understand the reluctance to extend you the privilege of his shop.

I never was a member of DVinfo. I became aware of the board, when a member
from another board went over there to spread distorted information about my
tests of a Canon HV20 and to accuse me of "copyright theft" for using fair
use privilage to capture frame grabs from publicly-available footage, for
the purpose of reviewing the camera's capabilities. The footage was a bit
soft and for that he concluded that I doctored the images. When I invited
him to conduct his own tests, he refused, but instead chose to attack me for
posting frame grabs from various footage that was publicly-available on the
net (which I can legally due under the terms of Fair Use, for journalistic
purposes). That happened on the AVSForum. The moderator was a buddy of his,
and promptly terminated my account there. Then the guy goes over to DVinfo
and continues to spout lies about me. I informed Chris that I didn't
appreciate someone using another board that I have no dealings with, do
libel my name and asked him in a rather firm manner to remove or edit the
thread. He got huffy on me and around the same time period, I was writing to
a gentleman who owns six of these cameras to ask what he thought of the
audio. He denied that there was any problem and after three back and forth
e-mails, he referenced the other issue and chose to conveniently use that as
an excuse not to discuss the V1U audio with me any further.
If you want to read the gory details, it is here:
http://aamserver.dnsalias.com/basspig/AVSPM.htm

My intent with joining DVinfo last month was to partake in a decent resource
for video professionals. I do make announcements when I discover something
as glaringly wrong as with the V1U. But I am not there solely to be a
trouble-maker. What we need is a forum that has the same ideals as an
audiophile magazine that started publishing in the 1970s, known as the Audio
Critic. That publication was supported by subscribers, not advertisers, and
the reviews were bluntly-honest. It was a great publication and I adore
their honesty and technical accuracy.
DVinfo and others are beholden to the camera manufacturers and as such are
self-censored so as not to upset their monetary stipend.

Since the guy from AVSForum carried his beef with me into DVinfo, a forum at
which I was never a member, he has tainted the waters permanently for me,
caused one of their moderators who is respected in the industry to blanketly
dismiss anything I say, as a total farce, and as a result, my account
remains languishing, un-activated, so I can't post in defense of, or to
dispute the lies coming from the individual who uses his good reputation to
smear others'.

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I had a long chat with Chris about that, and he chooses to advise me not to
join the forum, accusing me of being a copyright violator, simply because I
employed the journalistic "fair use" privilage to display some frame grabs
from some publicly-available non-commercial footage, as examples of typical
picture quality from a particular camera, which, BTW, I now own. He has the
audacity to lecture me on the law, when he was the biggest law-breaker
himself, violating FCC regulations by operating and willfully refusing to
shut down a pirate radio station when confronted by federal agents. Not to
mention the copyright violations he commited by broadcasting
commercially-recorded music on KIND Radio without paying ASCAP fees. He is a
coniver and a slippery fellow, who speaks legalese terminology and pretends
to know the law, when in fact, his closet is full of skeletons.

I didn't want to say all that, but his decision to ignore my e-mail requests
to activate my month-old account so that I can post rebuttals to DSE's
outright false information about my tests, has really left me no choise but
to make the whole thing public.
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> The usenet is public. Discussion boards are NOT.

I'm aware of that. My beef with Chris is that he is "pre-banning" me, when I
have commited no bannable offense on his board, due to not being a posting
member. It's sort of like "Minority Report" where they arrest you for crimes
you have not yet commited.


> In my experience, if after receiving invitations to parties - if you
> develop a reputation for spending all your time complaining - pretty
> soon the invitations dry up.
>
>
> My 2 cents, anyway.

Certainly not the case here. If you're curious what contributed, read the
thread in my link.

At any rate, as far as I'm concerned, my respect for the two of them has
dropped into the basement. Shame on them for their "selective morality".



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Mark & Mary Ann Weiss



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