Reviews of sets: photo or video?

This is a question which will make more than one jump but which deserves to be asked.

A set review is good, it allows you to see more closely a model, minifigs, a box ... but more and more, these reviews are botched, spoiled by those who offer them with blurry photos , the carpet in their living room or the checkered tablecloth in the kitchen. In addition, the high-definition visuals offered by LEGO, retouched or not, circulate regularly well before the sets are actually marketed and are of much better quality than those offered by fans.

What the fans think? Personally, I skip this part more and more often: these hasty reviews are mostly decorated with two lines of text, which, when they are not full of spelling mistakes, do not have no interest other than describing what you see in the photos. I would not come back here to the rating at the limit of the debility granted to sets by certain sites or forums .... These ratings have no interest and for good reason: they are not indexed to anything, correspond to nothing and are used just conclusion to reviews that have no such as the name.

On one side we find the Awesome Reviews, those where everything is brilliant, incredible, top-notch, grandiose, with notes to make a college student green with envy and a conclusion that recommends buying the set in question immediately on pain of being a looser for life.
On the other, we find the pathological reviews, with dozens of pictures of the box, instructions, stickers, the box, the inventory of wisely aligned parts, the box and more of the box .... All served with an over-analysis of the content, even if it means falling into obsession. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against discovering pictures of a set I'm looking forward to, quite the contrary. But I am a big boy and I make my own opinion without having to go through the usual logorrhea of ​​superlatives. And above all, I want to keep certain sensations for my own unpacking with the discovery of the contents, the bags, the parts ... The ridiculous ritual but essential for any self-respecting AFOL.

There are more and more excellent quality video reviews posted on Youtube by passionate AFOLs or on sites like The Brick Show who have made these mini-shows their trademark. And it is not worse. They have the merit of showing the set and the minifigs from every angle in less than 3 minutes, with a minimum of unnecessary comments (you can always mute the sound) and possibly detailing the various features of the model. I ask no more.

I posted you recently on Brick Heroes video reviews produced by Artifex. They are a good example of clean, efficient work that gets around a set in minutes. Difficult to do better, the technical level of the realization is high. I also spend a little time skimming Youtube to watch some videos of the young French-speaking scene which presents sets in the form of clips of a few minutes. The production is amateurish, the commentary hesitant, the credits annoying, but we generally learn more than a review of 15 photos and three lines of conclusion.

I don't wait for a review to decide whether or not to give me a particular set. In the worst case, we get so many images of the new stuff coming out that my idea on the matter is settled long before anyone decides to post some pictures.

 And you, what is your opinion on this subject? Do not hesitate to post your comments....