You are OK with looking at videos to get technical information about speaker DIY? Would you prefer it written down with pictures and clips where appropriate or do you prefer video clips?
We benefit as much from seeing the practical implementation of something, as we do from reading about it's theory.
I'm fairly newish as well (don't use or really understand facebook and twitter but OK with forums and newsgroups) but find videos on technical matters to be such an inappropriate medium that I will only look at one when I have no option. I spent perhaps 30 seconds skimming the posted video which is typical for one that I find interesting! What brings someone to view all of a technical video from beginning to end?
The first time I came across the phenomenon was 10 or 20 years ago when I needed some detailed technical information about a computer board but could only find a video on the manufacturer's site and not a technical document. After wasting time jumping about the video to find what I needed I was sufficiently motivated to enquire about why there was no technical document. The reason seemed to be that they had to make a video because a proportion of the audience they wanted to reach could not read. Given the existence of the video the additional cost for a technical document covering the same information was not considered worthwhile.
This makes me rather curious about the audience that those that make technical videos are trying to reach. A modest quality video is obviously going to be cheaper and easier to make than an equivalent technical document. Can youngsters get along with technical information in videos significantly better than us oldsters?
(If you haven't guessed I am thinking about making some technical information for the web.)
Yes for practical information like how to lay paving slabs but even for this an indexed set of clips would be more useful for readers. The above video however is (I think having only briefly skimmed it) trying to get across a range of technical topics that would be significantly better presented with the written word and a few pictures and/or clips. i am not querying the content just the reasons behind choice of format.
Andy I don't think the pursuit of information delivered efficiently is an age/generation issue but more a mind set.
I enjoy youtube for certain things but yes, found myself skimming through this vid too.
I enjoy youtube for certain things but yes, found myself skimming through this vid too.
to be honest I did not listen critically. The guy looks like a fine engineer but I think he might be missing a few pages in the speaker bible. I could be totally wrong. Will need to spend more time there.
Nor did I, I found it very noticeable, it could have been a combination of the poor audio quality and my poor lap top speakers aggravating my tinnitus, that's what it sounded like.
Yes, by far.
It may be more of a converse of that statement. Perhaps youngsters don't get along with reading as well as us oldsters. Video is their path of least resistance.
Someone that would watch a flim on a mobile phone? Or as a group would watch a film on a 15" laptop (current advert)?
The popularity of the DIY speaker group on facebook baffles me as well (I have tried to use facebook!). It is very difficult to follow the evolution of threads compared to a web forum and yet this type of format is popular. Why?
There appears to be something that I just don't get or can't see concerning why formats that are clearly poor at efficiently getting across some relevant information compared to their "predecessors" seems to be successfully displacing them. I believe I can work out why I don't like youngster's music but this baffles me.
I find this discussion quite funny.
If "youngsters" like myself prefer to study for our university exams by literature only and don't show up to lectures at all, especially the older Professors feel underappreciated and often blame it on our generation and our preferences.
And here some propose it's the other way round. The youngsters can't read and watching is preferred.
And what do we learn from that? Overgeneralization bad.
If "youngsters" like myself prefer to study for our university exams by literature only and don't show up to lectures at all, especially the older Professors feel underappreciated and often blame it on our generation and our preferences.
And here some propose it's the other way round. The youngsters can't read and watching is preferred.
And what do we learn from that? Overgeneralization bad.
Because it's a total free-for-all? I'm also answering questions with questions, this is easy........
Half-way through the video, Gaz, I got an advert for Marks & Spencer's Autumn Lingerie collection.
That was well worth waiting for! 😉
That was well worth waiting for! 😉
