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Chris J Dixon wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

The really big problem is it's impossible to assess a picture in a store.
You need to view a big variety of stuff over a long time to find the one
that suits you best.

For this reason I based my choice on assessment by Which. I know
that they are fallible, but I didn't really have any better
ideas.

I certainly used Which at one time (many years ago). And was never
disappointed by any of their 'Best Buys' But having got most of the things
I wanted, decided it was an unnecessary expense - given that with the
internet developing, I no longer looked forward to reading it as before.

One upon a time "Which" results tables could be readily filtered
by facilities or particular aspects of performance. Sadly this is
now much reduced, I am guessing it is the inevitable downside of
the drive to make everything readable on smartphones.

I too found they'd changed into not telling me what I wanted to know about
something easily.

Faced with so much information, having a mind set that my major
decisions are based on data, I simply set to and transcribed a
subset of their data to a spreadsheet, where I could readily play
with criteria to my heart's content.

Excellent. Not sure I could be bothered. ;-)

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Dave Plowman London SW
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