You know what I would find useful?

Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

Only if they took out the sales element. There is nothing worse than watching a tech demonstration from a salesmans perspective.

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Ryan Roberts

Like www.dnrtv.com[^]? They do some really handy screencasts.

Rocky Moore

It would not actually require hosting on CP servers, there are plenty of hosts out there such as youtube, google video, msn video, etc that host videos for free. All CP needs is a section to index all those videos out there that members submit to CP. So, the video itself could even be a channel 9 video, but CP would give a detailed description (provided by the CP member suggesting the video be added to the index) to the video and a link. This allows CP to index and catagorize the videos allowing cp members to vote on them. Another nice plus to a CP index, is that search engines cannot index the content in a video, but they can index the descriptions, which means CP can receive even greater hits from search engines.

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Paul Watson

Mrs. Shog9 from outer space: Baby, show me what is in your pants... *Shog9 from outer space turns on his video trousers*

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:

And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

Shog9 0

Ah, well... Hey, how do you know about those videos?! :suss: ;P

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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.

--Raymond Chen on MSDN

Lost User

You've been listening to the american idea of an english accent!

The tigress is here :-D

Marc Clifton

Richard A. Abbott wrote:

Video tutorials hosted on CP servers.

Well no, I wasn't thinking CP would do this.

Richard A. Abbott wrote:

but when you consider that many readers of CP do not use any form of english as their primary language, this is a hurdle that might be insurmountable.

Well, there's no reason why someone shouldn't be able to put a video together in their own language, or even provide an audio dub. Marc

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Interacx

People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
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lost in transition

You done forgot about Bad English.

God Bless, Jason
Programmer: A biological machine designed to convert caffeine into code.
Developer: A person who develops working systems by writing and using software. [^]

Marcus J Smith

You mean all those English sounding people I hear, Ian McKellan, Maggie Smith, etc.. are really American actors?

CleaKO

"I think you'll be okay here, they have a thin candy shell. 'Surprised you didn't know that." - Tommy Boy
"Fill it up again! Fill it up again! Once it hits your lips, it's so good!" - Frank the Tank (Old School)

Ed Poore

This is a repost from a while ago in a ways (in the suggestion forum I think). Chris wouldn't buy it because of the bandwidth but an alternative suggested was a site which people could simply link or add stuff to a directory. The videos could then be hosted somewhere else, e.g. Googtube.

Dan Neely

hook, line, sinker. :)

-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

Shog9 0

dan neely wrote:

hook, line, sinker

Hey! Keep your mind off my tackle. ;P

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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.

--Raymond Chen on MSDN

SchaeferFFM

[Modified] This was supposed to be a reply to Ryan Roberts. Quoth Ryan: Like www.dnrtv.com[^]? They do some really handy screencasts. BTW: why the heck can't i quote somebody whilst doing a modification? [/Modified] Thanks for the link! They allow content to be downloaded (zipped or torrent) :cool: I'm interested in Sahil Malik's shows on SharePoint 2007 and in the current WPF feature.

-- Oliver

Lost User

Marc Clifton wrote:

audio dub

Just like some TV programs and films. They are worse than useless in my opinion.

Mark_Wallace

Don't tell us, tell Google. Give 'em the idea, and let 'em run with it. If they set up a dedicated area just for product-demo movies, companies will fall over themselves to get their demos in there.

Andrew Leeder

No, but they don't speak with a regional English accent either. ~A

RichardGrimmer

That's the way an awful lot of tutorials etc for blender[^] are done - and I have to say it's a really good way of doing it! Perhaps a facility on CP to post a videotutorial rather than a straight article?

"Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox

Steve Naidamast

First of all, learning a lot of esoteric technology is a waste of time since you will never get to use most of it and by the time you get to use maybe a fraction of what you do know something else would have appeared. Second!; read a book, and stop watching so much television. Reading a good technical manual will do a lot more for you than watching watered down crap on a screen. Besides, Its bad for your sociological development...

Steve Naidamast Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@ix.netcom.com

BoneSoft

You wasn't born with neither? I'm a little rusty on my double negatives... Does that mean you were born with one? Or both? ;P

Try code model generation tools at BoneSoft.com.

Chris Charabaruk

How about organized on CP but stored on another site such as YouTube? Each video tutorial would have a page here with additional information, downloads, and discussion, but the actual video would be hosted by YouTube and simply displayed on the CP page. That should work, right?

Christopher S. 'coldacid' Charabaruk E-mail: chris at coldacid dot ent Web: http://coldacid.net/