Greetings EEVBees:
--I am constantly looking for good electronic videos watch out of the corner of my eye while my hands are busy doing routine and repetitive repair work. At least ninety percent of individual posters I disqualify and cease watching for various reasons. None of which apply to Dave, which is one of the reasons, other than the inherent interest of the topics, why we are drawn to keep watching Dave.
--Sound problems like:
1)Extraneous noise, music, or echos making it harder to concentrate let alone hear.
2)Bad mike setups where you hear a loud noise every time the work or the desk is touched.
3)Individuals with extremely ugly vocal qualities who seem to be yelling all the time, or people who have long verbal pauses, make throat noises, swallows, etc every two seconds, mouth clicks and lip licks.
4)Caspar Milquetoast who cannot adjust his vocal volume and periodically resorts to whispering.
5)Walter Mitty who suddenly starts mumbling to himself, as if thinking aloud, when he reaches a difficult point.
6)Porky Pig who you can almost understand until the approaches the pupuh pupuh puhpoint of the muhmah muhmuh muhmatter. Why not edit to keep people from replaying till they can comprehend.
7)Videos where one has to ride the gain, to keep from being deafened because the perceived volume keep jumping up and down by orders of magnitude.
8)Unintelligebility due to, poor speaking habits or extreme accent. I always understand Dave, and he is speaking a foreign language.
--Bad programing and editing:
1)Doing the umpteenth "How to test a diode" or "Replace Laptop Power Jack" video.
2)Videos that are almost still pictures, in that most of them consist of a talking head with a non-moving background, whiteboard talks excepted.
3)Overlong, pompous, and boring bumper intros with sound that demands rather that solicits attention.
4)Videos that include every jot and tiddle of a lengthy, prosaic and mundane dis-assembly. We want to learn things not watch your mnemonic screw placement documentation video!
5)Not re-shooting videos where the point of discussion is out of frame or obscured by hand(s).
6)Hand held camera problems, like the shaky camera, and the camera that wanders about randomly because the watcher is talking, and not paying attention. This kind of stuff is irritating and causes me to tune out.
7)Plodding along, flogging a dead horse, tearing a passion to tatters, and pointless repetition.
8)Videos that are laden with too much commercial promotion material.
9)Any videos where it takes two or more "chatty" people to explain an easy to understand widget or concept.
10)Inadequate light and/or low resolution.
--Fellow EEVBees, if you think of any other peeves that make Dave's erstwhile competitors, unwatchable, please include them in this thread, and I will collect them and re-post every six months or so. I have already added in some points by "Syntax-Error", as you can see. And, do not forget to patronize Dave's advertisers, reminding them you found them on EEVBlog, when placing your order, if possible.
"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum."
Augustus De Morgan 1806 -1871
Best Regards
Clear Ether
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