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I bought Pinnacle Studio 8 (PS primarely because it had received PC
Magazine's "Editors Choice" award. The author of the article
describing PS 8 is Jan Ozer, the same person who wrote the Visual
Quick Start Guide for PS 8.

Reviewers at amazon.com have rated Pinnacle Studio 8 to be 2 out of 5
stars, the web board at pinnaclesys is full of frustrated users who
seems to have problems from anywhere not being able to launch the
programm to crashes after hours of work, destroing their projects.

This makes me wonder how impartial this author was when he wrote the
review (and possible awarded it the "Editor's Choice" award.)

Why? As a book author it's important that you sell as many books as
possible. If the book flops, it's over for the author. So Jan Ozer had
very well a reason to write a glowing review, knowing it may well
increase sales of his book.

This situation is especially concerning, because PC Magazine is the
leading publication for computer users and many readers rely on the
magazine's judgement when it comes to purchasing hardware or software.


Here's the link to the article:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1264724,00.asp or search for
"Pinnacle Studio 8" at www.pcmag.com

Note that this article appears to reviewing either PS 7 and/or PS8 -
another reason to doubt PC Mag.

The book's ISBN is 0321186532

"GEMILA" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I bought Pinnacle Studio 8 (PS primarely because it had received PC
> Magazine's "Editors Choice" award. The author of the article
> describing PS 8 is Jan Ozer, the same person who wrote the Visual
> Quick Start Guide for PS 8.
>
> Reviewers at amazon.com have rated Pinnacle Studio 8 to be 2 out of 5
> stars, the web board at pinnaclesys is full of frustrated users who
> seems to have problems from anywhere not being able to launch the
> programm to crashes after hours of work, destroing their projects.
>
> This makes me wonder how impartial this author was when he wrote the
> review (and possible awarded it the "Editor's Choice" award.)
>
> Why? As a book author it's important that you sell as many books as
> possible. If the book flops, it's over for the author. So Jan Ozer had
> very well a reason to write a glowing review, knowing it may well
> increase sales of his book.
>
> This situation is especially concerning, because PC Magazine is the
> leading publication for computer users and many readers rely on the
> magazine's judgement when it comes to purchasing hardware or software.
>
>
> Here's the link to the article:
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1264724,00.asp or search for
> "Pinnacle Studio 8" at www.pcmag.com
>
> Note that this article appears to reviewing either PS 7 and/or PS8 -
> another reason to doubt PC Mag.
>
> The book's ISBN is 0321186532

PC Mag, like any other publication, is in business to make money. The good
reviews are generally given in exchange for some "consideration" - monetary
or otherwise. So take their reviews with a large grain of salt. Better to
ask in N/Gs such as this one about how good a prog really is.

PC Mag sucks big time. It's written for the average user, who knows nothing
or very next to nothing bout how a PC works and their articles are rife with
errors, omissions, misinformation, patronage and outright lies.

I would suggest Maximum PC as an alternative mag and NG's as a definitive
source on hardware and software.

"GEMILA" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I bought Pinnacle Studio 8 (PS primarely because it had received PC
> Magazine's "Editors Choice" award. The author of the article
> describing PS 8 is Jan Ozer, the same person who wrote the Visual
> Quick Start Guide for PS 8.
>
> Reviewers at amazon.com have rated Pinnacle Studio 8 to be 2 out of 5
> stars, the web board at pinnaclesys is full of frustrated users who
> seems to have problems from anywhere not being able to launch the
> programm to crashes after hours of work, destroing their projects.
>
> This makes me wonder how impartial this author was when he wrote the
> review (and possible awarded it the "Editor's Choice" award.)
>
> Why? As a book author it's important that you sell as many books as
> possible. If the book flops, it's over for the author. So Jan Ozer had
> very well a reason to write a glowing review, knowing it may well
> increase sales of his book.
>
> This situation is especially concerning, because PC Magazine is the
> leading publication for computer users and many readers rely on the
> magazine's judgement when it comes to purchasing hardware or software.
>
>
> Here's the link to the article:
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1264724,00.asp or search for
> "Pinnacle Studio 8" at www.pcmag.com
>
> Note that this article appears to reviewing either PS 7 and/or PS8 -
> another reason to doubt PC Mag.
>
> The book's ISBN is 0321186532