New Format Disappointment

clay -- Tue, 01/01/2008 - 15:25

It's been seven years or so since I've been reading The Perfect Vision and I must say that with the departure of Robert Harley, the magazine's format has taken a definite turn downhill.
I don't feel it is the quality of the people or their work. It is the business move, a money move, to increase circulation and to create a populist magazine that, in an attempt to become everything to everybody, is certainly alienating a large number of its longtime patrons. Sure, in the long run the numbers will be up. More cell phone articles mean cell phone ads. Maybe down the road we'll be seeing reviews for auto nav systems and the like. What on earth happened to those wonderful movie/dvd reviews? It seems that the've become a page(push?) for the struggling hddvd/bluray new releases. Not a very admirable effort when the magazine then goes and dedicates seven pages to "The Music Goes Round and Round", (issue #84).
Maybe I should not take the magazine's title so literally but there was a time when a new issue would arrive and hold my attention with relevant articles about home theatre audio and video. It's just too bad. It was a very well crafted and special magazine and now it has become obviously corporate and somewhat superficial.

sheepherder -- Tue, 01/01/2008 - 18:09

All the changes and shift in emphasis away from home theater to everything under the sun that doesnt fit in TAS killed the Pefect Vision.
No we can read some on line POS combining two mags Perfect Vision and Playback. Obviously they are moving away from their core audience to fools who think their Ipods amd MP3s deliver state of the art sound and seeing nothing wrong with text messaging while driving on the interstate.
Good ole HP must have recently moved to an assited living facility to allow this to happen. What a joke! Harley knew what was happening and moved to TAS.

Great way to treat your loyal subscribers. You didnt treat us this way when HP ran TAS.

Cant wait for the company to file Chapter 7 and see TAS go down the tubes because of dumb decisions from a bunch of overpaid and over educated MBAs.

Sheepherder
Shenandoah Valley, VA

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