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CNET Reviews unusable - literally

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Albert Silver

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Just a word of warning. While researching for the right 19-inch LCD for myself, I have naturally been culling information from numerous sources, one being the very conspicuous CNET. I say conspicuous since their reviews appear everywhere from Business Week to the NY Times. Unfortunately the quality control seems to have gone down the drain, and don't think I'm pitting my opinion against theirs.

First I ran into a review on the Syncmaster 930B which not only shows a performance chart of the 915N, but even concludes the review discussing it instead.

Later, I decided to check up on the Sony SDM-HS95P and was flabbergasted to see the review of a 17-inch model instead. Wondering whether there was a switch around, I soon found that the same review was attributed to no less than 11 products as can be seen here.

I reported the incidents of course, and they said that someone would be in touch with me and that the problems would be addressed. Needless to say, not only did no one contact me, but I now received notification that CNET regards the issues as SOLVED (their capital letters, not mine). Note that not one of the "reviews" were fixed.

Cheers,

Albert
 
Dude, people here or anyone [H] don't use Cnet as a review reference point....lol.
 
yeah i havent even been to the cnet webpage in years now... It is basically for the mass market consumer type (who are incidently, morons)
 
I have gone to CNet and basically the reviews are for novices and are biased in my book. The products that seem to get great reviews are the same ones that advertise on CNET, go figure. :D
 
My 4 gripes about THG:

1. Too much clicking. They split up every article or review into 20 pages to be sure they get as many eyeballs for their ads as possible. :mad:

2. In an area like LCDs where there are new products every week THG can only manage to do 2 reviews a year. :(

3. There is nowhere to do a side-by-side comparison of different products, :confused:

4. Searching sucks and when you get some hits they're not sorted in chronological order. :confused:
 
So now that we've established that CNet sucks, just where do you guys go (besides The [H]) for product reviews/info?
 
I like anandtech and techreport, their reviews are usually unbiased. Hexus is also good too. For audio reviews, I like to hear what individuals say, not reviewers.
 
To be fair, you're giving PC hardware sites, and CNet is a consumer electronics review site...
 
Talz said:
Gotta second Anandtech.

www.silentpcreview.com and www.storagereview.com are both notable as well imo.
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I found Anandtech next to useless regarding LCD panel reviews. There were 5 in all of 2005 (all sizes included), and none on the newer and more relevant models. Their reviews may be of use for the models reviewed, but not as a main reference to help choose. BeHardware is far better and probably the best for this, and THG is pretty good too.

Albert
 
I never read CNet. For my reading I check out [H]ardOCP (obviously) first and then I usually mosey on over to AnandTech to see what they have up. If I want to check up on the SFF scene (because I have a Shuttle and have an interest in that area) I head to sfftech.com
 
Talz said:
Cnet may actually be worse than THG. :eek:
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Agreed! :mad: And to top it off they're fucking anti Open Source too...what a bunch of pathetic losers.

Anyway, for trustworthy reviews I always surf to [H]ard|OCP first (duh! :p ), then I'll check FiringSquad, XbitLabs and TechReport for additional benchmarks/info/opinions. Finally I'll hit the [H]ard|Forums to read upon the personal experiences of other members with the hardware that I'm interested in.

Sites which I consider to be totally biased are too numerous to list, but here's a few of the biggest/worst offending ones, IMHO:

ATI:
  • DriverHeaven (pro-ATI ALWAYS)
  • Hexus (pro-ATI)
  • Rage3D (pro-ATI)
  • EliteBastards (pro-ATI)

nVidia:
  • Guru3D (pro-nVidia ALWAYS)
  • Tom's Hardware Guide (pro nVidia)
  • nVnews (pro-nVidia)
  • ExtremeTech (pro-Nvidia)

CNET deserves a special category all by itself, and that category is: the bottom feeder.

Of course, you may disagree with my list all you like, and that's fine. Personally I'm a big nVidia fan myself, but even I can't stand blind fan boyism shown by those sites in the list above. If a company (any company) fucked up, let's admit it, analyze what went wrong, how to correct it (if possible), how to prevent it from happening again and then move the hell on. That's all. :)
 
1c3d0g said:
Sites which I consider to be totally biased are too numerous to list, but here's a few of the biggest/worst offending ones, IMHO:

ATI:
  • DriverHeaven (pro-ATI ALWAYS)
  • Hexus (pro-ATI)
    [*]Rage3D (pro-ATI)
  • EliteBastards (pro-ATI)

nVidia:
  • Guru3D (pro-nVidia ALWAYS)
  • Tom's Hardware Guide (pro nVidia)
  • nVnews (pro-nVidia)
  • ExtremeTech (pro-Nvidia)
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lol, i usually expect sites that name themselves after a company's product (Rage3D) or adopts a company's spelling (nVnews) to be a little biased =P
 
One I came across in the last few weeks is neoseeker. Haven't looked around too much there but it seems to have a lot of info. Don't know if it's really good or not yet.

http://www.neoseeker.com/

Anyone know anything about it or have an opinion?
 
CNET reviews are worthless and should not be taken seriously.Just look at thier so called reviews. :eek:

CNET is alot like ...AudioReview.Well no Audioreview scrapes the bottom of the trusty barrel.
 
HardOCP and Anandtech... read the vid card reviews at HardOCP for Brents opinion and then head over to Anandtech to see the apples to apples performance comparisons which mean more to me than the playable settings comparisons.

StorageReview for hard drives.

One thing THG is good for is crap like printers. No one reviews printers anymore except THG.


CNet.. haven't been there in ages. They were ok back in the days of the Voodoo1 and such, as others say, they are a consumer electronics site..not a hardware site.
 
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