Banned at AVSForum

[reddman71]

I,for one, have never been one to blindly follow the general consensus. Just because everyone says it doesn't make it truth. People are too easily swayed by popular opinion as evidenced by the Sony following. I simply want the best value for my money with as little issues as possible. I agree with you Dylan, problems never get solved if they are swept under the rug kinda like out of sight out of mind. At least JVC acknowledged the issue and took steps to correct it. I can respect that and it shows that they take pride in their brand. Kudos to them. Now Sony on the other hand........... 

[Greg9518LC]

I find it amusing being banned as well from AVS but the more I see and sell the new digital's 
the more I will never get rid of my modded CRT projector. Having 4 new spare 9" projectors
waiting in the wings to be filled with glycol and used. Signal passes thru 3 stages on the highly modded crt projector and around 11 with digital. Easy to figure out which one is truer to the source.
Maybe next year for digital will get it right. As for me I will not be holding my breath for that to happen anytime soon.

[Verge]

I find it amusing being banned as well from AVS but the more I see and sell the new digital's 
the more I will never get rid of my modded CRT projector. Having 4 new spare 9" projectors
waiting in the wings to be filled with glycol and used. Signal passes thru 3 stages on the highly modded crt projector and around 11 with digital. Easy to figure out which one is truer to the source.
Maybe next year for digital will get it right. As for me I will not be holding my breath for that to happen anytime soon.

BUT THEY HAS THE HDR!!!!!


Well setup CRT looks similar

[darinp]

I'm starting to understand why some people get so frustrated with roxiedog.

On the good side, after first saying that the only scenes where he saw a CR advantage to a JVC over a Sony was on fades to black he did admit that he should have written something different, since it wasn't just fades to black.

On the bad side, he has posted 2 things that are completely false and seems to want to play games to keep from just admitting that he was wrong. I feel like I'm teaching junior high. I don't think it is too much to expect somebody to know the difference between the words "any" and "average" unless they aren't a native English speaker. After claiming that 1600 lumens from a Sony was enough light for any theater I pointed out that this wasn't true and he kept coming back with nonsense like how what mattered what the average home theater screen size and even wanted to know how big my screen is, as if this was relevant to whether 1600 lumens is enough for any home theater setup.

He even went off telling me that was uncalled for for me to tell him that what he posted was false. He doesn't seem to be able to handle being corrected, even when he is outright wrong, in which case I suggest that he not post things that are false.

The last one was him claiming that a Sony will maintain a 50% (or whatever the real value is) ANSI CR advantage over a lower ANSI CR JVC even in a light colored room. When I pointed out this was completely false and provided some of the math he then went into more nonsense about how watching them for 450 hours somehow gave him the intelligence to know what happened to the ANSI CR. Clueless is one thing, but clueless and willing to play games to keep from admitting a mistake is another thing. He clearly doesn't understand the math and physics involved here.

If you are reading this roxiedog and want to make an account, I would be happy to discuss it with you here. Playing games after you post something that is false in order to keep people from realizing you were wrong isn't likely to work here. And please don't whine about being corrected. Don't post things that are false and I won't correct them. Post things that are false and I will. You really should learn to deal with it if you are going to make false claims.

--Darin

[Dylan Seeger]

The ANSI contrast claim was something I saw and had a good laugh at. If a room is only capable of 200:1 ANSI contrast, then there is next to no benefit of having something that does 400:1 as you're not going to see that kind of performance in your room. Most theater rooms are not capable of showing off as much ANSI contrast that some of these higher ANSI machines are able to give. Unlike on/off contrast, there is a HUGE point of diminished returns with ANSI contrast.

[Tom Bley]

Please don't call him over here.     It's so nice and peacful here, we're getting along fine. 

[AVSCraig]

I'm starting to understand why some people get so frustrated with roxiedog.

On the good side, after first saying that the only scenes where he saw a CR advantage to a JVC over a Sony was on fades to black he did admit that he should have written something different, since it wasn't just fades to black.

On the bad side, he has posted 2 things that are completely false and seems to want to play games to keep from just admitting that he was wrong. I feel like I'm teaching junior high. I don't think it is too much to expect somebody to know the difference between the words "any" and "average" unless they aren't a native English speaker. After claiming that 1600 lumens from a Sony was enough light for any theater I pointed out that this wasn't true and he kept coming back with nonsense like how what mattered what the average home theater screen size and even wanted to know how big my screen is, as if this was relevant to whether 1600 lumens is enough for any home theater setup.

--Darin

1600 lumens is barely adequate in my theater. And I have moderate sized 1.25+ gain screens. 4K HDR has changed the game when it comes to lumens. Rdog is just rationalizing his new projector. 

[darinp]

Rdog is just rationalizing his new projector.

I'm guessing we are going to be saying that a lot.

--Darin

[Dylan Seeger]

Please don't call him over here.     It's so nice and peacful here, we're getting along fine. 

+1

We really don't want or need people like that here. Rdog epitomizes everything wrong with that forum.

[Javs]

Its interesting that since I posted a whole bunch of measurements from Projection Dream proving him wrong, he has not replied to, or addressed them.

Definitely sounds like purchase self-justification to me. If you really read between the lines, that's all it ever is.

[darinp]

He also hasn't responded since I pointed out that he was also wrong when he said, "ANSI is also relevant to on screen material On and Off is not."

Not even 100% sure what he meant by that, but looks like just one more example of his ignorance about what is going on.

If he actually knew how things worked and cared what the truth was we could discuss that one intelligently, but I don't see that happening.

I doubt he cares, but when I see somebody who admits to mistakes I figure I can trust them more later. At least they care about the truthfulness of what they say/post. With a person who plays games and outright refuses to admit they made a mistake long after it is obvious, I'm not going to trust them about subjects I don't know about in the future, since I know that the truth doesn't matter much to them.
 
--Darin

[woofer]

Myself and Bandyka have been conferring via PM about our upcoming 20LTD ,s ....i went to PM him this evening only to be greeted with a message he could not receive any PM,s.

I emailed him, and it turns out he has been Banned for "Mentioning selling his X9500 in the UK"      WHAT!!!     How is this against their "rules" ..

The forum has certainly degraded over the years... 

[stanger89]

1600 lumens is barely adequate in my theater. And I have moderate sized 1.25+ gain screens. 4K HDR has changed the game when it comes to lumens. Rdog is just rationalizing his new projector.

Rationalizing a purchase is fine, and if he stuck with the "I watched both for 450 hours and I know what I saw" line, I don't think anyone would really care.  I don't doubt for a minute that he had both and that he liked his Sony better, though I suspect the JVC wasn't setup well.... 

What I don't get, and what's really annoying is how he feels the need to convince everyone else that his opinion is "right" and the way he'll say anything to prove it, and will ignore contrary evidence and get really offended when he's called out on it.  Kind of like someone else who's unwilling to accept that DLP is about a decade behind the curve and does pretty much the same thing to defend it, like trying to convince us all that DLP is better because $600 DLPs top the sales charts on amazon 

[stanger89]

Myself and Bandyka have been conferring via PM about our upcoming 20LTD ,s ....i went to PM him this evening only to be greeted with a message he could not receive any PM,s.

I emailed him, and it turns out he has been Banned for "Mentioning selling his X9500 in the UK"      WHAT!!!     How is this against their "rules" ..

I got a warning for mentioning my RS600 when I was trying to sell it.  Though admittedly that particular post I probably did violate the spirit of the rules...

That said, it was a surprisingly heavy-handed threatening warning, not a "hey, remember you can't do that", it was the "Your post violates the rules and you'll be banned if you do it again".

The really frustrating part is there should be some sort of understanding that there's a difference between posting in threads saying "hey, I've got a xxx for sale in the classifieds, check it out" and just mentioning the fact that you're trying to sell something.  After that warning I was afraid to even mention selling my RS600, even just to say something like "when it's sold" or "if I get it sold"....  Made it really hard to talk about what I was going to do with my planned upgrades....

Did Bandy even have his listed in the classifieds?  It's sad, there's a difference between discussion and self promotion, mods should understand that and be able to recognize the difference.

The forum has certainly degraded over the years... 

Years?  I swear it's really been just the last 6 months that it's really gone down hill.

[Tom Bley]

Myself and Bandyka have been conferring via PM about our upcoming 20LTD ,s ....i went to PM him this evening only to be greeted with a message he could not receive any PM,s.

I emailed him, and it turns out he has been Banned for "Mentioning selling his X9500 in the UK"      WHAT!!!     How is this against their "rules" ..

The forum has certainly degraded over the years... 

That's just crazy.