2017 TV Shootout Evaluation event will be in NYC, July 12 and July 13, 2017

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Waboman

You seem to have beef with AVS. Why?

I thought I explained the philosophical concerns in the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs of post #15. My belief is not restricted to AVS per se. I’m not surprised if there are members from other forums/websites who read Blu-ray.com for information (which is sometimes leading edge exclusive), but also won’t post direct links to threads on this forum, for example,

or won’t participate here in good faith for the same reasons. My ‘beef’ as you call it, is I feel if one is sincere (rather than pursuing advertisers or other self promoting motives) in the pursuit of learning or achieving something better in science, technology, health, etc., these disciplines should not be bound by forum or institutional fanboyism purposely leading to isolationism.

The point is if you read a paper in a truly scientific journal about some aspect of the eyes which seems to be a prominent anatomical organ in AV world discussions, as I said above, it’s not uncommon to see *competing* institutions listed in the Bibliography because the investigators are working toward the common good of improving sight.

The ITU Working Party responsible for producing ITU-R BT. 2100 continues to work with participation by many diverse entities which one could ascertain as being competitive to each other, but I feel the primary goal is geared toward bringing better and better imagery to the public……just today and before - https://www.itu.int/md/R15-WP6C-C/en

Originally Posted by Waboman

Please do tell.

Well personally, some people don’t like seeing clips of gratuitous violence from movies during a presentation on a pleasure cruise, but no need in opening up old wounds (Blu-ray vs. HD DVD codecs, interoperability features, etc. emphasized by evangelists) if, and I’m hoping so, in the years since, Kevin has shown in actions or word that he has put any anti-Sony sentiment behind him. This is what I don’t know and would be good to know to somewhat assure outside observers of a fair judging panel. The more transparency to all aspects of this shootout, the better, since some of the public may be making purchasing decisions based upon its findings.