03-28-2004, 08:47 AM
Trusted Reviews are in general people who are trusted in the community for giving accurate reviews ( and how in general have a higher standard ). These are people who are in the HK community for a long time, and who also know how to rate things.
It's not quantity of a review that make's it a good review, but how good the reviewer can be.
Let me give a example:
Only a short while ago, somebody posted a review for the FX Vampire Hunter set. It was a long review, so far so good ... but the reviewer desided dat becouse there are 2 movie's on the set, and one of them had no subs, that he found that the entire set subs needed to be marked 1/5. Now here come's the kicker, the 1 movie with no subs wasent able to have any subs, sinds it was originaly a dub only release. But anybody reading the review that dident know this fact, was going to be under impression that the this set was a bad one, becouse of the low score & the so called missing subs on 1 movie.
A reviewer needs to have commen sence to check at leased the R1 version. I've seen people claiming "bad video rip" becouse of pixelation, but then when you check the R1's, you know it's also on the original R1's that flaw ...
When i see reviews by people i don't know, i will take that review with a more sceptic view, while i see ... The Swan or other people from ANF, i know the review can be trusted & is accurate. Ofcourse Trusted Reviewers can also make error's, but they are less prown to those error's becouse they know what to check better thanks to years of expierence ...
That's in essence what a trusted reviewer is ...
It's not quantity of a review that make's it a good review, but how good the reviewer can be.
Let me give a example:
Only a short while ago, somebody posted a review for the FX Vampire Hunter set. It was a long review, so far so good ... but the reviewer desided dat becouse there are 2 movie's on the set, and one of them had no subs, that he found that the entire set subs needed to be marked 1/5. Now here come's the kicker, the 1 movie with no subs wasent able to have any subs, sinds it was originaly a dub only release. But anybody reading the review that dident know this fact, was going to be under impression that the this set was a bad one, becouse of the low score & the so called missing subs on 1 movie.
A reviewer needs to have commen sence to check at leased the R1 version. I've seen people claiming "bad video rip" becouse of pixelation, but then when you check the R1's, you know it's also on the original R1's that flaw ...
When i see reviews by people i don't know, i will take that review with a more sceptic view, while i see ... The Swan or other people from ANF, i know the review can be trusted & is accurate. Ofcourse Trusted Reviewers can also make error's, but they are less prown to those error's becouse they know what to check better thanks to years of expierence ...
That's in essence what a trusted reviewer is ...