Why I rarely watch Internet videos
You know, I'm getting increasingly annoyed by the "constant-wait" feature of the Internet: no matter how much you increase your connection speed, the people posting content on their web pages keep larding on bandwidth-hogging "features" to keep page downloads consistently slow and flaky. Right at the moment, there is a strong tendency for people to put up audio files and videos to convey information that might just as well be given as straight text. Sure, there is a place for audio files (say for songs), and for videos (things exploding, flying, falling down, or other cases where the actual motion is important), but *news*? What's the point? Our internet connection may not be blindingly fast, but at least it isn't a dialup line, and it can download words and pictures pretty fast. Hit it with a video off of Youtube, though, and it takes upwards of 5 minutes to download a 1 minute video clip. Unless there's something pretty damn visually striking about that video, I'm just not going to bother. Certainly not for a couple of talking heads from some news show. Especially since there's a 50:50 chance of the video hanging halfway through. And even using one of the fast connections at the University, there's the whole issue that somebody sloooowwwwllllyyy reading a script on a video is way slower than just giving me a text and letting me read it myself.
Would it kill people to post transcripts instead of (videos? Won't somebody *please* think of the bandwidth-impaired?
Would it kill people to post transcripts instead of (videos? Won't somebody *please* think of the bandwidth-impaired?