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Consumer Reports' main goal in life seems to be making controversy whether based on significant differences or not. In the past, their criteria for judging many items was far from well-balanced and did not take into proper consideration that some consumers may value certain attributes in a product. This was especially noticeable to me in their car reviews, where they sometimes put down sporty cars apparently because they didn't cater to the same uses as a family sedan!
They did do one thing for TV sets, in constantly complaining about the lack of full DC restoration, which was one of the failings of color sets for a long time. Eventually, one year, they did come up with the amazing but true revelation that most transistorized color TVs at the time had roughly the same picture quality, and reliability was now much better than the old tube sets. Don't know how they managed to write that, when their existence depends on finding differences among products.
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