The site seems to indicate that there’s a video version, but that you can’t download it (you have to buy a DVD). Regardless of how good the audio version is, the existence of an audio+video version greatly reduces my subjective valuation of the audio version; it makes me feel like I should withhold my listening time until they offer the video version for download too. Distributing video files isn’t free, but it’s a trivial expense compared to the purchase price.
I never even consider video. I get audio and listen to it in my car, or while out walking, or cleaning the house, or on the subway, or while chopping up more books to scan them in to OCR them, text-to-speech them, and make MP3s from them. I get videos from the library and rip them to MP3. Yesterday I was converting video from the Machine Learning 2006 conference into MP3.
I have a long commute.
Do people on LW consider time/life optimization part of LW rationality?
The only Teaching Company course for which I found the video to be important is the anatomy lecture series. They won’t release a course as audio if they think the video is important.
The site seems to indicate that there’s a video version, but that you can’t download it (you have to buy a DVD). Regardless of how good the audio version is, the existence of an audio+video version greatly reduces my subjective valuation of the audio version; it makes me feel like I should withhold my listening time until they offer the video version for download too. Distributing video files isn’t free, but it’s a trivial expense compared to the purchase price.
I never even consider video. I get audio and listen to it in my car, or while out walking, or cleaning the house, or on the subway, or while chopping up more books to scan them in to OCR them, text-to-speech them, and make MP3s from them. I get videos from the library and rip them to MP3. Yesterday I was converting video from the Machine Learning 2006 conference into MP3.
I have a long commute.
Do people on LW consider time/life optimization part of LW rationality?
The only Teaching Company course for which I found the video to be important is the anatomy lecture series. They won’t release a course as audio if they think the video is important.