[Free-sklyarov-uk] WATCHDOG needs our help !!

[Darren Grant]

I agree that anything is better than nothing, what I am trying to say is
that the biggest impact will be felt by equipment that lots of people own.
So if we can get it we could hit hardest by trying to highlight the case
that affects as many people as possible. It is too easy for people to
dismiss the problem as a quirk if the CD wont play on bobs CD-player from
the Sunday market. People are bombarded with issues like this to consider
all the time they will dismiss the ones that don't directly affect them or
people close to them.

If you show that it won't work on a product that is so common from a trusted
brand such as SONY then people will take more notice. People will see the
article and say I have one of those or my son, brother, sister etc has one
surely that can't be right. The other advantage is that a large corporation
(Dell, Sony etc) gets to see their product being shown to be incompatible
with CD's.

A large number of people especially non technical will get the wrong end of
the stick and say well the CD player manufacturers will just have to make it
work as if some CD-plays work then all plays can be made to work. So both
the CD publishers and major hardware vendor will both be expected to explain
why it won't work and fix it.

Darren

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Personally, I think anyone who feels genuinely upset that his/her new CD
won't work in his/her equipment would make a worthwhile report for the
researcher.  It doesn't matter whether the equipment is mainstream or not.
I don't know how WatchDog works, but I think that most of these reports will
work as background material, and they'll highlight just a few cases.