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The forum has become bought out over the last 5 or so years by "hype men" who are essentially snowflake brand-cheerleaders hired by the manufacturer to post on these places. If you post some negative experience or flaw, or call out any sort of cognitive dissonance, you will be banned. Its an overly moderated and overly advertised plague at this point. Reddit has become a far more friendly and inviting place to post opinions about home theater.

Think 90's throwback chatango, theglobe.com, and other youngin run dot-coms. If you can deal with Craig Newmark's or Apple forums over flagging and thread nazis, you'll love this place.
If you want to talk to adults about gear, notsomuch.
Fortunate he'z in Canada, for Californians who get banned, California Code, Civil Code - CIV § 51 Unruh allows for damages of over $1,600 per occurrence.
"California Code, Civil Code - CIV § 51.5
(a) No business establishment of any kind whatsoever shall discriminate against, boycott or blacklist, or refuse to buy from, contract with, sell to, or trade with any person in this state..."

signed up, made a comment about physical media and got susupended the same day! an after seeing the comments here i see why! come to funditsocially.com ? physical media equals financial stability ,community! cant wait to talk to you about dvds,lol

I have had AVS4You for a few years now. Computers/Laptops have a shelf life, they die, as mine did a few weeks ago.
I bought a new one and tried to load the AVS4You series of programs. Programs, I use a lot.
I entered the activation key. Nope. ApparentlyI have installed the AVS4You program on too many computers.
Two computers over three/four years. That's too many?
Why did I buy a lifetime license if it is
not for my lifetime but that of a piece of equipment with a built-in redundancy?
Lifetime: "The period of time during which someone lives or something exists" (Cambridge Dictionary)
So, Trustpilot reviewers beware. What is a lifetime to AVS is not what the term really means to its customers and society in general. Thus, "All that Glisters is not gold" (William Shakespeare) AVs should be aware of, unfair contract clauses, which are possible breaches of Distance Selling Regulations or the Trade Descriptions Act.

Stupid captcha test before accessing the site, what an annoying site...happy default!

I was a member of AVS forums for 15 years. I tried to have simple civil discourse on topics but what you find is that vendors with financial interests dominate the forums and they will relentlessly attack you if you post anything negative about their product. Recently I suffered racist attacks and simple post about comparing 2 technologies. how oes a talk about projectors get responded to by attacking someone like they were a dumb chimp? I was greeted with posts linking to youtube videos about dumb chimps and multiple racists posts about how dumb chimps are which in the environment right now is strait up racist. The mods clearly favor their vendors and keep this environment. Its pretty terrible. This is not a site for real talk about av. If they dont have financial interest, they are fan-boys and will group attack you. Avoid this place, find a better source of info.

I have just joined, i've found the forum where I want to post a question but I cant find what to click on to post a new post/thread can someone tell me how to do this? I know this is not the right place to post this question sorry about that.

My purchased avs unlimited my computer recently went kaput I contact avs as I had reloaded avs onto my new computer the key did not work so contacted avs who told me basically tuff you have to purchase again as the official licence agreement says only licenced to 1 computer which means if your computer goes down your money invested in this software is gone. Thanks for nothing AVS.

Ditto, The site is ruled by retailers and money, who will say anything to protect their products and sales. People have been banned from the forum for sharing product problems that were not fixable by firmware updates thus protecting sales of defective units.

Do you want to trust a site that will protect retailers , in favor of you getting defective equipment?. Did not think so. Lots of better places to find out about electronics than this place.

The site is not what it once was, its become a advertising site where your not very welcome if you dont agree with new products pushed there.
The general impression is that moderators rule whats said or not about products, specially if the product is from a vendor on the site.

Its not a forum for consumers, but for the retailers.