Video, Video, Video .. What Do you Think?

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We should have a video channel at UKClimbing.com and that may happen this year. At the moment we can embed YouTube video into articles and advertisers can use them in Premier Posts. It would be nice to be able to use a larger format and we are investigating that.

Meanwhile, we have hired the young filmmaker, Dave Gill, to do some editorial videos for us (see a profile and video of Dave's HERE). We travelled to the DMM factory on Monday and filmed, "The making of a karabiner" which Dave is busy editing today. Next up is a visit to Lyon Equipment in Dent who are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new Petzl belay device, the Reverso3. When they do get it Dave and myself will nip over to Dentdale and film the Lyon Equipment gear heads giving us the low down on this device.

Dave has also started to do work for climbing companies. Here is short video shop tour of the Ambleside climbing emporium, Lakes Climber, you can view, Lakes Climber - THE MOVIE HERE and it looks like someone has just found Lakes Climber - THE SEQUEL!!!!

VIDEO COMPETITION

In the next two weeks we are running two competitions, a Lyon Equipment Design competition and a Prana Photographic competition. Both will last a month. We then have a climbing video competition planned for the summer. More details soon.


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16 Apr, 2008
Yes.
16 Apr, 2008
Doesn't work for me. I've no sound at work and no broadband at home. High bandwith multimedia content as the main source of entertainment/information drives me away. BBC news do this too, some stories are covered as video only. Useless! The animated banners you use now are starting to pi$$ me off. Not everyone has top notch computer kit/access. jk
16 Apr, 2008
I think video is brilliant, but it is also good to have a text alternative of any video content. Some sites have gone a bit video mad, and if you want to access a review of a new product, you have to sit through 10 minutes of someone talking at a camera and showing you how to use the product. Great if you have broadband and 10 minutes to spend, but I'd also like to skim a text version of the review to extract the important information, and THEN watch the video when I get a chance / if I'm interested enough.
16 Apr, 2008
Careful, with your high amount of daily traffic (as the recent news article shows) adding video may result in ISPs demanding that you fund the upgrade of the countries network infrastructure in the UK to keep up with demand a la BBCs iPlayer :D
16 Apr, 2008
I'd much rather see the training section up and running :)
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