When enthusiast sites fail to show any enthusiasm...

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by Rich Peterson

I am compelled to reply to this.

I am a very long-time poster at AVS and can't tell you how frustrated I was throughout 2007 over how the forum had been taken over by HD DVD "enthusiasts". I would call a significant percentage of them "nutjobs". They seemed to feed off each other, dominating the HDM forums. The HDM forums were unlike any other area of AVS. Many of these "enthusiasts" are the very folks Grubert is referring to.

I wish I could agree with you that the HD enthusiasts were rational and cool, but I violently disagree based on what I saw. Even now that the format war is over they continue...

Unfortunately I have to agree with this assessment, especially when it comes to AVS. Somehow the situation got so out of control that it was becoming difficult to have any sort of normal discussion in the general section. Calling those people enthusiasts is a stretch at best, for some reason they were hell-bent on seeing the destruction of Blu-ray at the hands of anything, whether it was HD DVD or now digital downloads, I don't even mind calling them out here right now, we all know them anyway. Unfortunately it would quite unprofessional of me to do so, damn this insider tag!

I think most real HD enthusiasts are cool and rational, the easiest way to find out is to ask them whether they would have bought into the 'opposing' format as soon as their chosen format had lost. If the answer is yes, then the person is clearly just interested in HT and they have chosen one over the other for various reasons. If no, then they are on some sort of religious crusade, especially if they own a propaganda website...