Last week, product reliability was a hot topic on our Appliances and Home & Yard forums. This week, we noticed some nice reactions to recent reviews, ratings, videos and blog postings:

Several members are weighing in on the pros and cons of gas furnaces that use a variable-speed blower motor.

At the other extreme of temperature, our new video on snow blowers (right) came out just in time to provide fodder for the "Snow- which blowers throw farthest" and "2 stage snow blower" discussions that have recently sprung up.

We've also just published a First Look on the new Hoover U6485-900 upright vacuum, and a "Hoover WindTunnel vs Kenmore Progressive" discussion has fans of each vacuum making their cases.