Poor DVDs. They are going the way of the VHS.
Now it’s all streaming. Why, just the other day I had to submit a grant application to an organization that viewed samples exclusively online. This presumably is better: resources aren’t used to produce that DVD and the packaging materials required to mail it. But then there’s this, which I find worrisome.
This page loaded in my browser after I had successfully tested the upload on the host site.
People who judge work for grants and festivals will use any excuse to reject a submission. It doesn’t matter where in the chain the snafu takes place — their ISP, the work’s host, my end — if they get the “Aw, snap!” message they are on to the next submission.
Kinda sucks, don’t you think?
Christine
Yes, it definitely sucks! Updating all my cassettes to CDs was enough for one lifetime for me. Sigh. I guess the only constant is change, though.
David Licata
I think that’s it: it’s the rate of change. I know, I know, I just ranted about this with the cameras: the ugly post. I’m a grumpy old man, what can I say.
Bill H.
Seems like just a new way of interpreting an old problem.
Before, the main menu on the DVD may not have come up; before that, a jammed VCR tape, before that, someone not spooling the film correctly, a faulty projector bulb; before that, your manuscript being smudged, before that your illuminated manuscript getting wet….
I am sure some earnest author’s entry to the Babylonian Literature Contest was destroyed when some inept reviewer dropped the clay tablet he was supposed to review.
The reviewer probably sighed a sigh of relief that that was one less one he had to read.
David Licata
You are correct, sir. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I will say this though: as archival medium paper and film were much better than the digital equivalents. Digital medium is a terrible format to archive anything.
Okay, that’s enough from the grumpy old man.
As always, thanks for the thoughtful comment.