Hi

I've been listening to this thread and perhaps it is
just generational disconnect but I cannot visualize
what you could do with video that you could not
do better with text/html/jpegs etc.

Video is good if there is something to be viewed
(for example, a trip to a foreign country, a
beating heart in a Physiology course, the
characteristic gait of a patient with
Parkinson's disease, a football play etc.)

But, in my experience, what you need if  you
are trying to learn how to do something,
is usually a cookbook (this highlights a
general weakness of man pages, they tend
to leave out real-life examples). Furthermore,
when something is textual, you and retrace
easily and chose the pace.

The problem now is that, if I am right,
we would be competing with howtos!  :-)

Another problem is that, if Jeff's
grandmother is like my wife (probably
both about the same age), there is no
way she is going to either watch a
video or read a document on anything
technical (This is a corollary of the
advice to never give your wife a present
which plugs in).

So I'd like to ask those video enthusiasts
out there to give a specific example of what a
five/fifteen minute video might actually
contain.

doug

PS Another hurdle I anticipate is that it
usually takes n minutes to make 1 minute
of good video where n is a large number  :-(



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