Hardware Review Sites and Vendor Relationships

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Hardware Review Sites and Vendor Relationships

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 14, 2004 @04:31AM from the taking-a-deeper-look dept.

VL writes "Manufacturers demanding content changes is nothing new in the tech site community. We take a look at this topic, including one very public example that started in the past three weeks."

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What?? Reviews are rigged? by nurb432 · 2004-03-14 04:41 · Score: 3, Funny

The manufacturers are dictating what is revealed so they don't look bad?? Who would have ever thought.. I'm shocked.

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Hmmm by mikeophile · 2004-03-14 04:43 · Score: 4, Funny

We're not too concerned about our "uniques" a day, but rather our "bookmarks" and "returns".
That's an odd thing to say before posting to Slashdot.
1. Re:Hmmm by zulux · 2004-03-14 05:39 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  but rather our "bookmarks" and "returns".
  
  For you window's folk out there, lete me translate:
  
  but rather our "My Favorites" and "Carrage Returns and Line Feeds".
  
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Infinium a hardware vendor? by Operating+Thetan · 2004-03-14 04:57 · Score: 5, Funny

Isn't the whole point of the lawsuit that they aren't?

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1. Re:Infinium a hardware vendor? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-14 05:47 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I can't think of a more unfortunate name than the "phantom console" other than the "vaporware console"... seriously who comes up with this stuff.
  
  If they tried to sue me I'd call their bluff (the "phantom lawsuit") and just put quotation marks around all my stuff to humiliate them:
  
  The ceo of the company making the *yet to be released* "phantom" console has asked us to take down our review of their business. We suggest the best thing they could do would be to give us a "phantom" console to review, but something is really haunting their company - because the "phantom console" has yet to be released to the public. Finding their "phantom offices" is also a difficult task. But perhaps we shouldn't be so hard on the CEO, he could be a visionary - this "phantom of his imagination" could bring the gaming world to it's knees. All they need to do is set a new "phantom release date" and stick to it like the slime the ghosts leave when the pass through walls in Ghost Busters. Then we will all be able to enjoy the phantoms
  
  humiliation complete, lawsuit aborted, insert credit for more life.
Brilliant! One that works by Interruach · 2004-03-14 05:05 · Score: 5, Funny

1) Ad revenue created by page hits
2) Post non-story to slashdot
3) PROFIT!!!
Re:One of the first cases by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-14 05:17 · Score: 3, Funny

Eventually 3DFX picked up on this and demanded that Tom changes it, which he did.

Reading is fun!
Re:One of the first cases by gfxguy · 2004-03-14 05:20 · Score: 1, Funny

Of course, the poster said Tom changed it after 3dfx told him to. I can't vouch for what actually happened, however.

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I am appalled. by joeszilagyi · 2004-03-14 05:21 · Score: 4, Funny

You mean that there is no journalistic ingrity out there anymore? Hooray and thank you, Fox News!

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Wisdom takes time to build by cgenman · 2004-03-14 05:42 · Score: 3, Funny

Wisdom takes time to build.

How old was Strom Thurmond when he died?

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