Dorks And Losers

This might sound like I’ve been late to the party. DVD­File was redesigned a while ago, but I’ve been debat­ing whether I like it or not.

After weeks of think­ing about it, I’ve decided that I don’t like it.

Hav­ing been bought out, the new own­ers gladly redesigned the for­merly plain and sim­ple DVD­File into a much more col­or­ful — and slow — DVD resource site.

Prob­a­bly to sat­isfy the Ben Lyons read­ers of the world, the new color scheme looks cheesy and cheap, as if DVDs, Blu-rays or good films need to be adver­tised as flashy.

As you can see, there are ads galore, and tons of wasted space to appease lots of inap­pro­pri­ately places images (and ads). I dare not use the term “white space.” Sadly, the disc news posts are few and far between. I enjoyed the break­down, which is infi­nitely eas­ier to read than the infor­ma­tion dump on The Dig­i­tal Bits (which could really use a redesign itself).

How­ever, the biggest rea­son I stuck with DVD­File were their dead sim­ple disc reviews. I didn’t care too much for the video or audio parts (the sum­mary graphic worked nicely), since it was really the actual film review I liked to read. The reviews weren’t Roger Ebert-like, but I think the review­ers shared much of my taste.

I miss the days of a sin­gu­lar page review. Now I have to click three links for the final verdict.

Oh well. Now I can skip the less­en­ing text and see low-res images instead. Yippee.

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