When NPR has a pledge drive (or plays opera), I change channels. I’d love a system whereby once you’ve donated, you no longer have to listen to the commercials. Sigh.<\/p>\n
Anyway, while switching to AM, I found myself at a show that I’ve occasionally heard before, but never paused to linger very long. It’s about cigars. I don’t smoke ’em, so I don’t pay much attention to the show. For those who may recognize it, all the callers say, “long ashes to you” as a greeting, and they all seem to call the host, “general,” for some reason. I’m guessing it’s not ’cause he’s a general.<\/p>\n
Anyway, someone suggested that the general, who has a Web site, put up a video showing how to properly cut a cigar. Makes perfect sense, and is exactly the kind of thing he should be doing on his Web site.<\/p>\n
So the general said to wait a week or two, because he’s coming out with HD videos for his site. And that’s where he lost me.<\/p>\n
Why in the world would these videos need to be in HD? I mean, how much visual detail do we really need when learning how to cut a cigar? All this does is make the download times longer in order to say that you’re cutting edge. But a show about cigars doesn’t really need to be cutting edge, does it?<\/p>\n
It reminds me of businesses tripping over themselves to have Flash all over their Web pages. Flash, which sometimes is great and useful, in the wrong hands just gets in the way of the actual content the company wants people to see (and the content that visitors want to see). Same thing here. The content is getting lost in the craze to make it HD.<\/p>\n
Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe these videos will be greatly improved by being in HD. I certainly won’t bother to check for myself, so I won’t have to admit if I turn out to be wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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