@OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:Yep, YouTube is one of the main reasons why many folks in this business do not produce videos any longer. Why pay for a professionally done video when you can go to YouTube and get a video for FREE regardless of the content and quality.
Alan; this comment is spot on! I used to purchase train videos from a production company here in the Atlanta area that in the past specialized in historic railroad videos. When that well ran dry, they started producing videos of current rail operations. I bought a few of these early on but, discovered exponentially better prototype rail videos on YouTube that provide train symbol, locomotive numbers and other info all for free and fast paced, generally being only about 20-30 minutes long. The production company videos contain none of this info and tend to drag on for an hour and a half to two hours. The production company videos have essentially become unwatchable for me as I much prefer the YouTube “channels”. I haven’t watched any of the catalog review type videos mentioned above but, I do enjoy watching videos done by Norm and by Eric Siegel.
I have grown to appreciate YouTube to the point that I very rarely watch network TV any longer with the exception of sports and certain programming on PBS.
Curt
