I know about dpreview (I linked to them in the original post), their reviews really are the most thorough reviews of anything I have ever seen.

My choice of camera so far is based just about exclusively on the dpreview reviews.

Their forums however are not quite so useful for gauging differences between cameras as they seem to attract people with massively polarised views on which camera is the best. In other words it is fully of people who will defend their choice of camera to the death, even when they are not particularly happy with it.

I know you get people like that on all forums, but they appear to be very thick on the ground over at dpreview.