At 09:43 AM 6/21/2008, Nate Duehr wrote: >LOL! I'm just trying to help you sell 'em Gary. They're well >produced, and for those of us that a trip to Dayton wasn't possible, >they're definitely the "next best thing"!
Well Nate, I have been tempted, and although I have an extremely tight budget for the next 4 months, I might be tempted to order one of Gary's DVDs. They sound excellent, and I could use it as entertainment for train trips and flights in the near future (I have a nice portable DVD player). About the only way I'm going to "attend" Dayton for the next couple of years. >If the community wants good quality videos like this, we need to >support anyone's efforts to bring them. Agreed. >Why am I saying all this nice stuff? We BEGGED someone... anyone... >to record (even just as a home movie) some of the early IRLP >conventions, and no one ever did. There was information "lost" in >those early years... presenters didn't post their presentations, no >videos were shot, etc. I would have been happy to do it, but I didn't have a video camera when I was there in 2005. Now that I do, I would certainly record the next time I'm at a conference like the IRLP conference. >I was expecting a good video, but not a multi-camera, professionally >edited video where even the presentations on the screen were easy to >read. (Heck, I can ALMOST read Robin's tiny font on his "eye test" >portion on a big enough TV. You've got nice gear there, Gary!) Woah. :) I wouldn't have expected that either. >Certainly don't think the videos will ever be the "demise" of things >like Dayton, but it suuuure is nice to watch them in the living room >in the comfy chair versus spending over $500 to fly to Dayton from here! Well, the videos widen the coverage of the seminars, but events like Dayton will always have one thing that can't be reporduced by any other means - the atmosphere and personal contacts. :) Hmm, now you've got me seriously considering a DVD :) I'll check out Gary's freebie. I suspect that'll push me over the edge. ;) 73 de VK3JED http://vkradio.com
