Anand to do Video Reviews?

[GhandiInstinct]

The guy is a computer genius. We know that. You guys know Rodney Reynolds? He does video reviews over at 3DGAMEMAN.COM. I feel they are too short and not informative.

I think Anand should start doing video reviews, to help everyone out. Afterall some of us are visual learners. What do you guys think?

 

[amol]

yeah i agree . . .

pics are good in articles, but videos can show some finer details . . . i actually enjoy those 3DGameMan.com video reviews . . . they're really informative

 

[GhandiInstinct]

Yea, he's good. You have to be really charismatic and feel easy behind a camera to be good at doing video reviews, and 3dgameman is really good.

But Anand could show us his unique, correct view points which would be such a big hit.

Until he starts charging us, lol.

 

[manko]

I think Anand used to do some video reviews a few years ago.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: manko
I think Anand used to do some video reviews a few years ago.

not to my knowledge

 

[NesuD]

Originally posted by: Adul

Originally posted by: manko
I think Anand used to do some video reviews a few years ago.

not to my knowledge

Yes actually he did but not on this site. As i recall it was kind of a joint venture thing with another site. Anandtech always linked to the other site to see it. Can't remember the site though.

 

[MDE]

If Anand does do video reviews, then please for the love of God don't be as big of a dingus as that Rodney guy seems.

 

[GhandiInstinct]

Hey, at least hes doing it, and for free too.

 

[SickBeast]

I prefer text reviews for a number of reasons.

-they're much easier to navigate through
-you only have to read the sections which interest you
-they are much less bandwidth-intensive
-the resolution of the graphs/images is much higher than that of the videos
-you're forced to watch and listen to advertisements in a video review
-there's not much in a hardware review that benefits from video; are you going to show a clip of a computer sitting there chugging away at a benchmark?

I watched a couple of Rodney's video reviews and was unimpressed to say the least. The format here at AT is perfect IMO.

 

[GhandiInstinct]

Seeing hands on how to open something in a case. Or hands on how to work the BIOS to overclock something. Reading you can't get that kind of in-depth understanding. You have to translate the sometimes confusing wording of the author into something physical. Which is often hard to accomplish.