Agreed entirely. If you're trying to convey information, video is a terrible medium. And web video is particularly bad, because as well as the disruptive sound thing, you have to choose between tiny video with awful quality, or something utterly unreasonably greedy for bandwidth even in these days where a lot of people don't really count these things.
There are lots of things that video is good for; if you're trying to show a dynamic visual effect, then it's almost by definition the optimal medium. I really hate it when news sites show videos of a newsreader telling you the news, instead of a text article, though, and that's only the most prominent example.
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Date: 2008-08-27 11:41 am (UTC)There are lots of things that video is good for; if you're trying to show a dynamic visual effect, then it's almost by definition the optimal medium. I really hate it when news sites show videos of a newsreader telling you the news, instead of a text article, though, and that's only the most prominent example.