philg Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Folks: How valuable is the Video tab that we serve on top of every page? Who is watching these videos and how much are they learning from/enjoying them? Thanks in advance for your feedback. Philip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelChang Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 I've watched a few when they first appeared and found them interesting. I would visit more often if it was Firefox-friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnicholson Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 There's some useful information in there but the content doesn't change that much. It could be useful but as is, it seems a bit stale. I could never figure out how to change the playlist order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_g.1 Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Now that you mentioned it,I tried it and I needed to down load a plug in so I decided to forget it , Video seems like another world to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berryl Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Wow! You know, I know that I am a little slow at times and at the risk of showing my stupidity I have to say that I had no idea that these were here. Man Photo Net just seems to have more and more. I thought this was a place for a vidio forum of some sort, and since I am a very new member I have a lot to learn. Anyway I started looking at these vidios and I think that they are just Great!. I definitly plan to view them on a regular basis. Hope you are not planing to remove them. They seem to be very informative and also just enjoyable to look at. Thanks for bringing them to my attention. Sincerly Berryl Bader Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johncrosley Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Please do NOT delete them before I have had a chance to watch them. They are on my 'to watch' list. At the very least, please give us fair warning if you intend to delete them. I had a view of some and they gave me several valuable tips -- including one that may have seemed obvious about use of tripod for supersteady captures. That alone, for me, a nontripod user, was worth sitting through hours of videos. I am sure there is a wealth of other tips which I could learn from, but I have to have unencumbered use of my computer AND a superhighspeed connection (and I'm burning several years of photos on DVD, and I can't burn and watch videos at once.) So, please, advance warning if you intend to delete videos, please. What I have seen was very professionally done. I wasn't in a hurry to watch, knowing they would 'always be there', and now I'm a little worried. John (Crosley) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennyboy Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 As noted above, the player is somewhat unfathomable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmee Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 There is a plug in for Firefox that lets you use IE for this application. I added mine quite some time ago and am not sure where I got it. It was relatively painless to download and use. It works to channel the videos to IE. I have not watched them for a while, as they were repeats. I presumed I had seen all of them. They were usefull with some good information served up in a reasonably easy viewing mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 The add-on for firefox is IE Tab. Download here.... https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/ Then restart your Firefox browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevemarcus Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 ...the videos are completely inoperative, as far as I can tell, using either Safari v. 2.0.4 or Firefox v. 1.5.0.6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant4 Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 I for one would appreciate their remaining. I have only watched one so far and found it useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mário m. rodrigues Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 I hardly ever used it, I normaly have very low connection speeds wich explains partly why. I dont think I would miss the videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas_sullivan Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 heh....I always thought that was for shooting with a video camera. So, now that I've actually looked at it....keep it there for a couple months and then ask again. On first look at the first one, looks interesting for nature photographers. I have to assume the portrait and wedding stuff later on is as good. But, I still have to watch them. Spirer should do one on Street.....that would be cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yann_r. Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 <i>How valuable is the Video tab?</i> Would be better without ads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbender Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Philip - to answer your question, I didn't even know they were there until I saw this thread. Channeling the video to IE is not a hack that I'm particularly thrilled about. If I wanted to use IE, I would just use IE (except when I'm on my linux boxes, where I assume the video is broken). There are many other media players out there that work on all platforms - why not use one of those. Even an inline windows media player works on all platforms (including linux)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trothwell Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Not valuable at all. In most cases, I personally do not find video to be a good way to learn over the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
._._z Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Eight years and I've never visited it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philg Posted September 9, 2006 Author Share Posted September 9, 2006 Thanks for the feedback, folks. Little danger of the content being removed. If few are watching, however, it probably doesn't merit a tab in the navbar on all 2 million+ pages that we serve every day. Maybe a link from the Learn section. It also doesn't make sense to me to segregate content by type. If the video is about photographing people, it should go in the Learn section; if about choosing a camera, in the Equipment section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socke Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Sorry, Active X is banned here for security reasons. Too many holes in IE6 to be considered save on computers which might contain restricted information, per my contract this includes any private computer which is used to connect to company resources like out mail server. The bad sides of being an admin in a company producing enterprise software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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