AVForums expands its hardware review team

**Stuart Wright** · 11-11-2008, 8:25 PM

We at AVForums have always been proud of the fact that we provide you, the members and readers with the very best in enthusiast based content. As well as our main Forums, over the last 5 years we have gradually expanded our editorial content to include movie reviews, podcasts, video productions and hardware reviews.

Because of the stringent testing employed, our hardware review database has grown slowly over the past few months. Due to the overwhelming demand for more content, it is now time to expand our review team.

Today we would like to welcome our new hardware reviewer, David Mackenzie.

David joins the AVForums hardware reviews after using this knowledge and experience to write reviews for DVD Times and HDTVtest. He looks forward to evaluating displays and players for the AV Forums and, when given the chance, working with manufacturers to improve the quality of their products.

Outside of online journalism, David is helping release a series of art-house films on DVD, for a US-based company. Here he is responsible for dirt and scratch clean-up, as well as MPEG-2 video encoding, DVD authoring, and featurette editing. He also maintains contact with studios to secure the best quality source material. After graduating from the University of Glasgow with a joint MA Hons degree in Film & Television Studies and Arts & Media Informatics, David also hopes to combine his love for film and video technology to produce short films.

Now exclusively at AV Forums, David will continue to objectively assess video hardware, and looks forward to assisting with the production of video content for AVForums.tv. You can read David’s first review here.

davemackenzie · 11-11-2008, 9:26 PM

Brilliant news!!

I almost had a heart attack at first thinking someone was using my name as a joke!!!

Silverfox · 11-11-2008, 9:37 PM

Congratulations David! I'm sure it was you who wrote the review on the Toshiba 42ZF355 which helped me loads

David Mackenzie · 11-11-2008, 9:46 PM

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Originally Posted by davemackenzie

Brilliant news!!

I almost had a heart attack at first thinking someone was using my name as a joke!!!

I know, there's tons of us! Here's another David Mackenzie from up north: David Mackenzie (I)

namuk · 11-11-2008, 10:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davemackenzie

Brilliant news!!

I almost had a heart attack at first thinking someone was using my name as a joke!!!

i thought it was you

namuk · 12-11-2008, 2:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David Mackenzie

I know, there's tons of us! Here's another David Mackenzie from up north: David Mackenzie (I)

Lyris ?? off 875 thread .. just seen this underneath ..

If so nice one

Timbo21 · 12-11-2008, 7:48 AM

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Originally Posted by David Mackenzie

I know, there's tons of us! Here's another David Mackenzie from up north: David Mackenzie (I)

I'm confused now

So are the Dave Mackenzie Pictured above, or another different one?

**Stuart Wright** · 12-11-2008, 8:48 AM

Though it's not mandatory, we do ask our reviewers to use their real names for their logins as it makes their presence on the forums more transparent and credible.
So Lyris is now David Mackenzie.

Sals · 12-11-2008, 9:41 AM

Welcome to the team David.

rigman · 12-11-2008, 11:35 AM

Welcome to you David

I will look forward to some impartial reviews in the future.

regards
Darren

namuk · 12-11-2008, 2:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stuart Wright

Though it's not mandatory, we do ask our reviewers to use their real names for their logins as it makes their presence on the forums more transparent and credible.
So Lyris is now David Mackenzie.

Timbo21 · 14-11-2008, 7:07 AM

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Originally Posted by rigman

Welcome to you David

I will look forward to some impartial reviews in the future.

Are you saying they haven't been so far?

rigman · 14-11-2008, 11:38 AM

I wondered if anyone would respond to that after I posted it.

I did not mean that at all on here.

I meant in the way that some magazines (whathifi etc) do them with the biggest advertisers get the best reviews on their equipment.