Home Theatre Myths: Are we kidding ourselves?

[moserw]

Vidrad,

I totally agree with you here. I am not against all online reviews/reviewers, but I have learnt from personal experience not to go only by what they say. That's what I meant to convey. Even I trust online reviews and sites like CNET. I only meant let your eyes/ears finally decide. Online reviews should be a starting reference point and help in expanding your knowledge base and even help in decision making (to a certain extent), but finally auditioning should help you decide above all else. Agreed the article was not pushing any particular product or trashing any particular brand, but misinformation or half information is just as bad...

 

[square_wave]

How can the original poster who has not written the article, be playing a prank? I am just forwarding someone's opinion
I am just a newbie, new to the world of AV, and I highly respect the opinions of people like venkat, moser etc.
There is a lot of mumbo jumbo for people like me, since I dont have the experience of others, I rather read others opinion, and learn a bit hear and there, then unnecessarily post an opinion just for the heck of it.
Also the original article made some sense to me, healthy debating just opens up a forum like this I feel.
Most of the debate in this thread of just concentrated on the upscalling part of it.
As far as upscalling realactiveex makes absolute sense, the rest is im afraid mumbo jumbo to me, but for the rest it just helps others in improving their knowledge base:
"Upscaling is just a processing logic and there are many ways to achieve that.
The pioneer Kuro has the best upscaler in TVs, and so does the oppo at the source end.
It is important that we dont use all the upscalers in the chain. if you have a dvdplayer->TV set up, and if you have a pioneer kuro for the TV, then no need to buy an upscaling dvd player. just send the signal in the native format and let the tv handle it.
Likewise, if you have an oppo, you dont need a pioneer tv, you can do with any working HD panel to be happy."
Nobody has discussed things like cabling, and in my opinion expensive cables from people like monster etc. is just a rip off, playing on people sensibilities for presumed better quality.
I also feel if you have the money, then spend on a great home theatre / audio system, however I hate to believe the fact with a little or quite a bit lesser, you cant get an equivalently good system with really no noticeable difference. This I guess is the premise of the article.
Debate on

The problem is pulling some article written on some forum like Tech.2.com which is a place where they discuss everything from printers to mobile phones and pasting it here. These kind of useless articles written by total idiots are all over the place. It is like a disease which can confuse newbies to no end.
They can be found in lifestyle magazines too. I was reading one about hifi in a leading magazine recently. It was laughable. These people have no idea what they are talking about.

 

[realactivex]

The problem is pulling some article written on some forum like Tech.2.com which is a place where they discuss everything from printers to mobile phones and pasting it here. These kind of useless articles written by total idiots are all over the place. It is like a disease which can confuse newbies to no end.
They can be found in lifestyle magazines too. I was reading one about hifi in a leading magazine recently. It was laughable. These people have no idea what they are talking about.

SquareWave,
Hope you are not referring to the India today sister publication... That was something which I remember having read and laughed so much that i almost threw up

 

[square_wave]

SquareWave,
Hope you are not referring to the India today sister publication... That was something which I remember having read and laughed so much that i almost threw up

Dear realactivex,
Yes. It is the same.
I dont know where they come up with such writers. Very misleading stuff. It is very evident that these guys (usually smug techies) do some reading on the net and cook up articles like this.
This is the same case with other hobbies too. I have some friends who are deep into bikes and photography. They snicker when they happen to read articles like this on typical techie forums and lifestyle magazines. In these times of information explosion people need to make sure they are at the right specialist forums to make sure they get to read the right stuff.