Uses of video
Videos on CDs
Videos are used a lot in the media, for example in downloadable film trailers, music videos on CD, film clips streamed on websites, etc.
Videos on CDs are used a lot nowadays, especially by music artists. They’re usually music videos or a mini documentary about how the album came around by the artists an example of this is Blood Mountain by Mastodon. These types of videos prove quite popular with the music fans, because they’ll be very interested in what the band do while off stage and more of the CDs will be bought which means more entertainment for the fans. The unfortunate thing about it is that the material on the CD is limited, usually to 650Mb.
It’s also quite popular with the artists and record companies as well, because it helps with promotion of the music on the CD and the artists; which will help with making a profit
(Blood Mountain by Mastodon, with In my opinion I really like the videos on CDs, because it helps me enjoy the music more and I get to see my favourite bands messing around and not be serious, most music fans would feel the same.
Downloadable film trailers
I think that downloadable film trailers are good, they give you an insight into a movie before you go and see it, as a movie trailer should. Since they’re downloadable, it means other people without access to the web can also see them, they can be store on a portable storage device (preferably with a screen) and others can see.Videos can be uploaded and downloaded on the internet and they can be very important to a personal or company website. Most of the time videos that are uploaded by users are put on websites like StumbleUpon or YouTube, just for entertainment, this has become quite popular, and with people who upload video blogs, its quite important.
(A video on YouTube I was watching ‘Lamb of God – Pathetic’)
Viral Marketing
Videos used in viral marketing, make spreading the word of a product very fast and easy and many videos are sent through email. Companies attach small video with their product in them and sent them to many people, if the people like the product the forward the video to their friends and so on.
DVD
DVD is used the same as CD but it has more space on it and can be used on a PC or a DVD player, or both. Things like instruction videos can be very easy to distribute because they can be attached to a popular magazine or in newspapers e.g. Linux Identity magazine distributes DVDs with it; they have information about computer related things.
DVD also has a downside to it as well; there are a few formats that cause compatibility problems. A user can record on DVD+R and DVD-R but only once, but on DVD+RW and DVD-RW data can be re-written. The + and – symbols before R/RW just show different formats favoured by different manufacturers. +R was originally used by Philips, Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and others; -R was used by Panasonic, Toshiba, Apple computer, Hitachi, Samsung and others.
Today most players accept most formats, but some of the older hardware may not work. Standard DVDs have 4.7GB, but there are some other DVDs that are dual layer or double sided to increase space, these discs can hold up to 15.9GB. Conventional DVDs are 120mm in diameter but there are smaller sized used for promotional material.
Mobile Phone videos
Videos are also becoming more common on mobile phones. Some mobile phone networks now send their customers small videos to promote special offers; it could be a video about a new phone contract or a mini advert for a new phone.Among the users people can record videos on their phones and exchange them with friends via Bluetooth, usually videos on mobiles are stored as 3GP and mp4, e.g. some of the new Samsung phones record 3GP videos.
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