Simviation Forum - how bout a section for....

Sep 9^th, 2004 at 11:18am

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why not a section for simmers from simV to showcase there movie making skills and show some fsmovies Cheesy

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Reply #1 - Sep 9^th, 2004 at 11:21am

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My comments would be:

1. Because this is really not a "general interest" site

2. Movies can take up a lot of bandwith uploading and downloading (this site isn't cheap);

3. Movies can take up a lot of server disk space (and FS downloads are getting pretty large all in all)

4. We'd be addicted to watching Ozzy's baby spew all over creation - and the camera.

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Reply #2 - Sep 9^th, 2004 at 11:29am

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lmao ok

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Reply #3 - Sep 9^th, 2004 at 2:06pm

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It's definitely a thing that will happen.
What Felix said is spot on - bandwidth is expensive & no matter how many 10's of GB HD you have movies are a great way to reduce that Wink

However things are always moving & this will happen. Already we have mearly enough movies to make a specific section - I'm just reluctant to promote it as user satisfaction/bandwidth ratio is nowhere near as good as general addons.

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Reply #4 - Sep 9^th, 2004 at 2:35pm

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It's definitely a thing that will happen.
What Felix said is spot on - bandwidth is expensive & no matter how many 10's of GB HD you have movies are a great way to reduce that Wink

However things are always moving & this will happen. Already we have mearly enough movies to make a specific section - I'm just reluctant to promote it as user satisfaction/bandwidth ratio is nowhere near as good as general addons.

Interesting - maybe a "section" of available movies, and feature several of them a week, instead of the whole lot.

Specific movies could be requested directly and popped into a "by special request" slot in the section, or provided by particular ftp link to the requestor, who must dowload it within 24-48hrs or the link goes "dead".

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Reply #5 - Sep 9^th, 2004 at 4:20pm

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Interesting - maybe a "section" of available movies, and feature several of them a week, instead of the whole lot.

Specific movies could be requested directly and popped into a "by special request" slot in the section, or provided by particular ftp link to the requestor, who must dowload it within 24-48hrs or the link goes "dead".

I'm waiting for the ability to have streaming video option - it's possible now but due to bandwidth & finances it's not feasable - where users simply click on a list of videos & they can watch as they wait for the download ...

Meanwhile what you suggest sounds a great idea! Definitely a pensil scratch in my notebook

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Reply #6 - Sep 9^th, 2004 at 4:26pm

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Couldn't you have links to movies....but how many people would actually post a movie?

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Reply #7 - Sep 9^th, 2004 at 4:41pm

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Couldn't you have links to movies....but how many people would actually post a movie?

From what Pete says, there are enough that have already uploaded movies...

After all, wouldn't you want to see my fantastic performance of a rhumba/samba?

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Reply #8 - Sep 12^th, 2004 at 1:22pm

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I agree with the mods on this one, however I do have a suggestion, if it became something Pete was interested in. Perhaps a video software company would be interested in sponsoring all associated costs in exchange for some healthy advertising of their products/services....just a thought.

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Reply #9 - Sep 12^th, 2004 at 5:52pm

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Good idea Hyperion.......

I'd go after Pinnacle Systems.

And I think the movies should be limited to aviation related content.

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Reply #10 - Sep 12^th, 2004 at 6:40pm

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Good idea Hyperion.......

I'd go after Pinnacle Systems.

And I think the movies should be limited to aviation related content.

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and/or movies taken by the poster ... not rehashed clips found on the 'net...

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Reply #11 - Sep 13^th, 2004 at 5:38pm

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Yeah, I think if the photos section isn't going to be strictly aviation related, then the videos section shouldn't be either. Granted, the photos section is SUPPOSED to be, but it isn't enforced. Wink

I think it would be a great outlet for people to showcase some of their other talents, assuming the associated costs were nullified.

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Reply #12 - Sep 14^th, 2004 at 1:25pm

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nice to see i started alittle buzz about this and people also adding ideas onto in...i really like the 24-48 hour one

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