Re: And again 17 new Morris-dance-videos on dancilla.com

Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 19:32:23 -0700
Newsgroups: rec.folk-dancing,rec.music.folk,rec.arts.dance
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> Well Win-xp and WMP-9 is 5 or more years later than my Win-95 586-133
computer with WMP 6.4.
>
> So if Mario wants to limit his viewers to those having newer computers
that is fine. But it does
> leave us oldtime computer users out. But as I said I am able to view the
videos on lots of other
> sites.
W95 came out in 1995 (or even 94 ?). That's more than 8 years now.
And I have a certain set of tools (digitalizing software, camcorder, VCR
able to read all VHS video-formats, ...) and skills and a certain amount of
time, webspace and money to provide those videos. Don't think it is easy and
cheap to hunt all those videos down, often the postage costs the same as the
video-tape. Not to mention the discussions with the copyright-owners,
dancers, musicians, etc. to allow me to publish them on the internet.
Currently I pay approx. US$ 300,- a month for that "hobby" just to provide
the video-streams for free (don't forget, this is an individual with a
full-time job, not a company behind that).
And I don't have or have access to any W95 system where I could test this.
I will of course be open to constructive criticism and feedback, but will
not be able to support any type of combination of client-OS (and well, that
might be old W95) and player or connection-rate.
At least the site gives hopefully a good reason for dance-enthousiasts to
upgrade :-)
Mario
PS: Well at least I don't know any other website (except one with israeli
dances) which has that variety of folk-dance videos online - and for free.
If you could point me to the other sites I would be happy to inlcude them in
my linklists.