I f-ing hate video reviews!
Same boat... If at least they was make a site review and just in addition a video...
Same boat... If at least they was make a site review and just in addition a video...
DavidGraham
Veteran
Is there a chance you could be telling us about your experience with that rig?
I think we need to tone it down for posting video reviews on the forums. There are so many of them, but so few can actually be trusted.I f-ing hate video reviews!
Yep, I plan on doing some benching and trying out different memory speeds and how it affects performance. I also plan on overclocking the CPU as far as I can, only problem is that because of availability problems (Ram and GPU) I'll have to wait a month or so before I get the parts.
I upgraded FROM and TO almost identical hardware. Apart from old single threaded games, you'll be very happy.
It would be nice if people posting video reviews would write a description. I don't need a full transcript just a short synopsis.
Channel name would be nice too. Lets you skip links to channels you don't find trustworthy/insightful
Cheers
I couldn't agree more! I understand some people prefer watching video reviews, and that's cool...but I hate them with a passion as the signal to noise ratio is way out of whack compared to a written review where I can read the introduction and jump to the conclusion and feel like I at least got a good gist of what the piece of hardware is about and how the review is. I don't always just skip all the middle bits, but I usually do at first just because a ton of sites release at once and I want to get a general read on how the hardware is being received before going back and diving in to the tests so I know what to be looking for.
Videos make that way too time consuming, and I personally just prefer to read something than have to watch and listen to it...it just takes so much more time than reading it does!
(Believe it or not I feel the same way about typing at times, I can type a bit faster than I can talk without much effort.
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ProspectorPete
Regular
Youtube, while you hate the format, is great as a platform to generate revenue for your content. Everyone can start a channel and get paid after 10.000 initial views.
Starting a website? Good luck!
So yes, I understand why most people have a tech youtube instead of a website, some do have a site though and they then link to it.
Starting a website? Good luck!
So yes, I understand why most people have a tech youtube instead of a website, some do have a site though and they then link to it.
ProspectorPete
Regular
Because your favourite big tech websites are too busy ...... ....... ......... .....Nvidia and Intels' ........... .......... .......
Which is why for independent reviews people have to resort to youtube
Which is why for independent reviews people have to resort to youtube
I think being able to embed video is fine, unless there's some other side effect that makes it any more problematic than embedding a picture of the same size when not being played.
What I think would be needed is an expectation that the post that embeds it puts in the additional work to give the context and interpretation make it quickly useful, rather than putting the onus on other viewers to put extra time and work to effectively put together the original poster's position for them.
"What is the point being made?"
"Paraphrase or provide some kind of information to take place of a quote. Try to do this as if you were putting a subset of information in the post in case the video is removed or unviewable for some reason."
"What time segment am I supposed to check?"
"What do you interpret in that portion as going to the point you've made?"
and sometimes "I will try to view this later, but can you give bullet points so we can discuss it now?"
What I think would be needed is an expectation that the post that embeds it puts in the additional work to give the context and interpretation make it quickly useful, rather than putting the onus on other viewers to put extra time and work to effectively put together the original poster's position for them.
"What is the point being made?"
"Paraphrase or provide some kind of information to take place of a quote. Try to do this as if you were putting a subset of information in the post in case the video is removed or unviewable for some reason."
"What time segment am I supposed to check?"
"What do you interpret in that portion as going to the point you've made?"
and sometimes "I will try to view this later, but can you give bullet points so we can discuss it now?"
Until, for whatever reason, your youtube channel gets demonetized by google/youtube after being marked as "advertiser unfriendly" despite having millions of views.
ProspectorPete
Regular
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Let's say Samsung buys 50% of all ads on Youtube.
Your tech channel has a video on how cheap Samsung Android phones can explode if you try to use them. Samsung pulls all ads.
You lose half your revenue...
Now you make videos praising Samsung and their amazing technologies.
Samsung reinstates all adds, and gives you free phones to test.
That is how the real world works.
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I suppose now would be the time for a reinstated tech ethics sub-forum.
ProspectorPete
Regular
The message is clear though: Nvidia drivers are really fishy on Zen
You're wrong and you're right, but don't feel bad because it's a common mistake on the web. It actually IS up to Google to decide who is or isn't allowed to run videos on THEIR site. Now you're right that this is censorship, but it is very much legal and prudent of Google to do so.
You don't really have the right to free speech on the internet for the most part, you have the right to say whatever the site owners will tolerate. Google is a privately held company who gets to make up their own rules about their services, and people get to choose if they care to use those services based on those rules. I know it sounds dumb and hokey, but you would not BELIEVE how many times I'd have to explain to people that just because they're a member of a website it doesn't give them the right to say whatever they wanted.
Sorry, just a personal peeve of mine. Too many years as a mod/admin at too many sites having to explain that to people. My apologies for the rant, but just pointing it out.
Damn it, what? I missed that in my self-righteous indignation...what is nVidia up to?
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