[Info-vax] YouTube channel dedicated to OpenVMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-11-06, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2016-11-06 kl. 03:41, skrev Jojimbo:
>> I guess there's an unwritten rule that we can't criticize out own, but
>> OMG!  The one I looked at regarding some EFI information, well, I
>> couldn't read the screen or understand the narration.
>
> Either you was very unlucky or you simply selected the one with the
> worst sound quality. Have you looked at any of the other entries?
>

I decided to have a look at some of these and I selected the 3 WBEM
videos to watch.

The image quality was fine for me but the major issue was that
I couldn't fully understand what the speaker was saying even though
I am well used to a good range of English speaking accents.

If I was watching to learn something I would have stopped watching
after a couple of minutes.

BTW, seeing the certificate warnings in the browser sections of the
videos wouldn't have exactly inspired confidence in the product. :-)

Also, does _anyone_ ever use a DECnet Phase IV area other than
area 1 ? :-) (I'm assuming no one is still running multi-area DECnet
networks in production these days.)

> I have looked at a number of the other entries and noone of them
> was as bad as your (picked?) example.
>
> What about this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZkkkNU85_Q ?
>
> What I have harder to understand, is why on earth there has
> to be background music while someone enters DCL commands!?
>

That is an absolute no-no as far as I am concerned.

Music is fine if done properly and if you are telling a story (for
example the Disaster Proof video) but it's never ok if you are
doing a tutorial and trying to explain something like a command
sequence.

Simon.

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