DTown TV is a weekly video show in which Scott Keyby and Matt Kloskowski bring us some great tips, tricks, news, etc for Nikon digital SLR cameras. Probably due to its Nikon centric nature, many people seem to have gotten an impression that DTown TV is sponsored by Nikon. One most recent example is in the August 8th blog post about Nikon related news/links at NikonRumors.
Even the About page on DTown TV says so.
It must be real, right? However according to a Nikon Capture NX users group discussion posted by Nikon’s Mike Rubin, Nikon does not sponsor or produce DTown TV.
That makes it a little confusing: Does Nikon sponsor DTown TV or not?
Update:
As noted in the comment bellow by Phil. DTown TV has updated its About page and removed the words “is sponsored by Nikon”. So it appears that the matter has been settled: DTown TV is not sponsored by Nikon.
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There does seem to be some confusion over this. When Dtown was first launched it was going to be called “Nikon DTown” with the site at http://www.nikondtown.com, and featured the usual Nikon logo. The Nikon DTown name and logo also appeared on iTunes for the first episode. But after (before?) the first episode, it changed to DTownTV and the reference to Nikon disappeared, and I recall a “not associated with Nikon” disclaimer somewhere.
http://www.nikondtown.com now links to http://www.dtowntv.com.
Well, If its not ‘offically’ thean it brings a whole new level to Unoffical sponsor. They shil the (buy new) Nikon gospel louder than anyone.
i.e. (a recent quote) “well, for landscape you certainly need the 12-24mm. ” um yeah, need?
Still, it’s a decent 10-12 minutes here and there…
(found via twitter)
I see that the “About” page of DTownTV has been changed, with “sponsored by Nikon” now removed.
I guess something went on after the first episode was recorded, and although all the other Nikon references were removed, they forgot the About page.
Well, it’s moot now as they ended the series after 24 shows.