Will videos ever be a possibility on this site?

There's a few similar sites to this, like moviemontages, which have video clips of scenes. Will that ever happen on this site?

Probably not, to be honest.
It is time consuming enough to make screengrabs, and we have to be careful about disk space and bandwidth fees. Even more critically though, we're not sure about the legality of using video in the context of a review. There is plenty of precedent that screenshots to illustrate a review are OK, but we'd hate to be shut down because of video.

One more subtle reason that I'm not overly keen to show entire scenes though is that the site, to me, is more about the writing, categories and comments. Readers still have to use their imagination to remember particular scenes, even if we provide some screenshots. If we showed the whole death part of me thinks that would in some way detract from the writeup.

Old Bluffer

Just looked at movie montages - wow, their forums have thousands of fantastic posts...
[[b]edit: the above was sarcasm, their forums were filled with viagra spam.[/b]]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2007 11:25PM by old bluffer.

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old bluffer
One more subtle reason that I'm not overly keen to show entire scenes though is that the site, to me, is more about the writing, categories and comments. Readers still have to use their imagination to remember particular scenes, even if we provide some screenshots. If we showed the whole death part of me thinks that would in some way detract from the writeup.

Agreed. There's definetly something more interesting about a write-up written with flair and humour than watching a low-quality video clip.