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Originally Posted by joehunt
I absolutely agree with you  and just wanted to say something to those who feel angst about ordering one as a result of the comments posted here.
From what I can see the only prolific poster (PP) who posts positive comments about his PW2 is the only PP who actually owns one. On the other hand, one PP has admitted to never even seeing a PW2, other PPs have stated that they returned their PW2s after seeing imperfections that no one else could see, etc. etc. All of this should be taken into consideration when reading these comments.
And besides, I just can't understand the reason to post dozens and dozens of times about a product I do not/have never/no longer own. Personally, if I buy something and don't like it, I'll let my feelings be known and move on to something else. |
There are a lot of people who on PW2 that comment about it here:
http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,128460.525.html
Of course, over at KBoards, there is also a lot of perfectly happy PW2 owners. I don't doubt most are accurately, on both sides, reporting their own experience. All are valuable.
Some of us have really closely followed the whole frontlit e-ink reader discussion and participated in it ways before the PW2 release (I for example do have a PW and PW2 on international pre-order that starts shipping on the 15th) and there definitely is a pattern forming. I guess theoretically it might be misleading, as any Internet phenomenon, but I see the odds of that diminishing all the time to zero.
I agree that the average use probably won't see or care, though. Like they won't see or care about imperfections (dead pixels, light bleed, color unevenness) on their flatscreen TV. Yet the latter topic too are a very common and very valid topic on home theater enthusiast forums, because usually enthusiasts care more - they know more about the topic and have higher quality standards and expectations. The issues with LED/LCD televisions are definitely real, even though most people don't see a thing because they don't care.
Enthusiasts also care about the accuracy of information posted online, that's why they take part. Now, enthusiasts too may be wrong, get caught up in the argument too far or they may at worst be Internet trolls, but I think the purpose of forums like these is to hash out the best possible information on a given topic. Unfortunately the experience of the average person isn't the best possible information on most topics.