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clrmoney
7/10/2017 10:38:23 AM
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Digicel video service is much needed
Video is very valuable in todays age so when you can record or watch when someone is doing wrong or something. Digicel has the video services and that's a plus for them so it just add more value to their business.
batye
7/11/2017 8:17:15 AM
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Re: Digicel video service is much needed
@clrmoney yes as most people this days visual learners and wanna see it... video is a right medium for them to deliver it to...
elizabethv
7/11/2017 8:44:13 AM
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Re: Digicel video service is much needed
@batye - I agree, most people are visual learners. And with Digicel looking to incorporate VR technologies, they could definitely stand to seed themselves with various business. It could easily be utilized for all kinds of training purposes.
batye
7/11/2017 4:04:50 PM
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Re: Digicel video service is much needed
@elizabethv thank you, yes VR tech. act like a game changer and also at the end it will improve training...
Adi
7/11/2017 8:45:50 AM
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Re: Digicel video service is much needed
batye - I think both communication and entertainment are moving in the direction of video -- we see far more video on social networking sites, and shared on Instagram etc. And of course, we are seeing print decline and video entertainment via OTT increase. So I think that's the trend that these operators are picking up on.
elizabethv
7/11/2017 8:51:07 AM
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@Adi - without a doubt video is picking up. And horrifyingly, I've noticed a steep decline in people's reading comprehension. Anymore it seems like if something is longer than 140 characters, they can't handle the chain of thought. I have no idea what this truly means for the future of literature, but it seems grim.
mhhf1ve
7/11/2017 3:56:02 PM
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Re: Digicel video service is much needed
With the YouTubes and Facebook Videos becoming what everyone "must" see.. I wish the feature on Youtube that lets you watch at 2X speed becomes more widespread. There are so many videos that I want to fast forward through to get to the end because the editing isn't great but the content is decent.
Reading text is so much more efficient when you can skip over entire useless paragraphs....
Adi
7/12/2017 11:11:15 AM
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Re: Digicel video service is much needed
mhhf1ve - there's also a pop-up frame feature in many streaming videos now, that allows you to see a frame by hovering over the timeline on a video. That lets you quickly find the next segment in a video rather than plugging through something you don't want to watch.
mhhf1ve
7/12/2017 12:36:19 PM
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Re: Digicel video service is much needed
Adi, I've seen that helpful video pop up feature-- and it's pretty useful, but I still like watching some YouTube videos at 2x speed just so I can see the whole thing but save half the time watching it. I have to admit I also listen to podcasts at 2x speed too -- just because it saves some time. If I could understand what people are saying at 3x, I would probably want that. But there's a limit to the input speed for my wetware.
mhhf1ve
7/12/2017 3:15:20 PM
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There's one thing that annoys me about video scanning -- the inability to skip. TiVo arguably made the perfect ad skipping button, and I worry more and more that a software version of an "ad skip" button will not always be available. YouTube is already testing it with video ads that users can't skip even after 5seconds. And I hate it.
Adi
7/12/2017 11:13:28 AM
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Re: Digicel video service is much needed
mhhf1ve - <Reading text is so much more efficient when you can skip over entire useless paragraphs.... >
And this is where I think mroe traditional entertainment formats for video will struggle when applied to productive or enterprise usage. There are situations where video facilitates productivity, but also those where its actually slows you down. Quickly scanning information is definitely one of them.
mhhf1ve
7/12/2017 12:39:32 PM
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Maybe AI will get to the point where it can automatically edit videos down to just the essential highlights. I think IBM is doing something like this with tennis matches -- editing down the games to just the interesting points without human intervention.
dcawrey
7/12/2017 3:31:02 PM
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@mhhf1ve Not a bad idea for attention deficit folks!
I'd prefer longer versions myself. Of course, if AI was better at selecting the content I watch, that would be great.
mhhf1ve
7/12/2017 4:53:57 PM
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Well, part of the problem is that there's so much content now.. if AI was even better at curating, I wouldn't have time to sleep and catch up with all the videos I could binge watch.
I can hardly even keep up with podcasts now.
elizabethv
7/13/2017 8:40:06 AM
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@mhhf1ve - I'd be lying if I didn't see a benefit to AI being able to edit videos to just the interesting parts. But there's part of me that wants to caution against this. We're already raising an entire generation that struggles to read anything more than 140 characters and still retain the information they read 150 characters ago. This, in my opinion is having devestating consequences on the intelligence of our community. What will things be like if a baseball game is reduced to 2 minutes?
mhhf1ve
7/13/2017 10:44:21 AM
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Re: Digicel video service is much needed
> "We're already raising an entire generation that struggles to read anything more than 140 characters and still retain the information they read 150 characters ago."
I would like to see quantitative data on the attention span and memory of humans over time. When "reading and writing" became a mainstream phenomenon, vast numbers of people "forgot" how to remember long passages of spoken words -- because it just wasn't a necessary skill once a person knew how to write things down.
I personally don't think that anything has fundamentally changed in our collective brains. We haven't altered genetics with smartphones. We've only trained our brains to pay attention to shorter time frames, and that training can be unlearned for important tasks. Maybe I'm wrong?
dcawrey
7/13/2017 3:07:24 PM
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@mhhf1ve Everything is moving towards video - which I think is a scary thing.
I still like reading. I still like writing. But I am starting to think I am in the minority these days. For some, it seems like reading and writing is too much work.
mhhf1ve
7/13/2017 4:09:01 PM
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I'm not exactly sure why so many people seem to express fear about younger people absorbing video media more than books. To me, media is media. There are trashy books. There are garbage videos. But there are "classic" books -- and there are also "classic" videos. It's just that the history of video hasn't matured as long to build up a library of work. Is Quentin Tarantino a lesser "author" than Stephen King? Why should Shakespeare be held to a loftier title than Christopher Nolan? Someday a YouTube star will be recognized as a brilliant auteur, but it will take time for us to collectively realize it. Just as the Beatles were criticized in their early career as no talent musicians.
elizabethv
7/14/2017 8:20:26 AM
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Re: Digicel video service is much needed
@mhhf1ve - Maybe it's the writer in my heart, but I think there's a bigger talent to writing a book than a movie. Not that they aren't both art in their own right, or that one is necessarily greater, or has a more impactful message. I just see nuances in books that movies can't begin to convey. And I love movies as well. They're just different. And it genuinely saddens me when I write anything of substantial length just to have its meaning lost in an inabilty to maintain focus for that length of time. It genuinely frightens me when I hear our President requires his intelligence briefings come in 140 character blurbs. *I'm just going to say I don't have any kind of reliable source to prove that, but I read it in an article. So while I can't promise it's true, honestly just the thought frightens me. It frightens me that we are raising a generation of kids who this very likely will be true for.
mhhf1ve
7/14/2017 11:04:42 AM
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Well, I vaguely remember reading an article that stated 45's intelligence briefings were short (like a page) and peppered with his name throughout so that he would continue to read it and not just skim it.
But I think there's a big difference between a 70+yo man who has the focus of a fruit fly and a teenager who does....
afwriter
7/14/2017 11:05:42 PM
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If that's true it's just as funny as it is scary.
afwriter
7/14/2017 11:02:47 PM
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I get why this may be a desirable idea, but I don't want a machine deciding what the important parts of the video are for me.
dlr5288
7/31/2017 5:47:47 PM
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I agree. It's probably less time consuming, but I'd like to choose for myself.
afwriter
7/14/2017 10:58:18 PM
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@Elizabethv, I know what you're saying. It is hard to write anything that grabs people's attention anymore because they just want to see their clip and move along.
srufolo1
7/10/2017 6:04:50 PM
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Video Always Relevant
Digicel has tapped into an important market in the Caribbean and Pacific islands. Digicel's Quinn said people were largely pirating content to view. Going from 0 fixed lines to more than 100,000 subscribers in only two years shows video was the right thing for the company to get into in that region.
Adi
7/11/2017 8:47:45 AM
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Anchor for broadband
Video anchors the bundle -- that's what we've heard from some operators. So even if the primary goal is to be the broadband access provider, you are better off doing so as a multi-service provider. And video seems to help anchor that subscriber -- video plus broadband subscribers are less likely to churn than just a single-service broadband subscriber.
Ariella
7/11/2017 2:14:49 PM
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@ADI that makes sense if the videos are what lure them in in the first place.
dcawrey
7/11/2017 2:40:10 PM
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It's prett obvious at this point people will pay for video.
They won't pay for many things, but it seems like video is taking priority over other things. That's not a bad position to be in for the service providers!
afwriter
7/14/2017 11:08:15 PM
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@dcawrey, That is a great point, though a lot of people don't think that they should have to pay for video either.
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