Some
websites that I thought made effective use of video were Listen.com,
Farmclub.com, and Real.com.
Listen.com was very informative and very easy to navigate. The page loaded
quickly and gives a wide variety of choices and different file formats to choose
from. It also gives links to other companies that also distribute videos and
music to either download for pay or for free, and the choice of whether to just
en listen and watch, or to download them on to your hard drive. One of several
links they gave is Farmclub.com which gives a wide variety also of different
file formats, and music or videos that you would like to watch, but they are
deceptive in their saying that you can download music if only you download these
plug-ins or helper programs such as Shockwave, Liquid Audio, MusicMatch Jukebox,
an M3P player, RealAudio Player, Jukebox, Spinner etc. And then the only thing
you can do when you've downloaded all the necessary stuff, you can't actually
save it at all, you can only watch it in your browser window. All those hours
wasted for nothing?
I choose this *.avi
file : Roswell.avi because I love Sci Fi movies
and found this one fun. Also *.ram type of video file: Britney.ram
from Listen.com which is the only one I could play using Real player already
installed on my computer . I found these on the HTML disc that accompanied our
book: Dino2.avi, as well as Dino.mov
which about a dinosaur, Summit Flyby which is about the
rim of Mount Rainier in AVI format as well as in *.Mov
format. And finally I chose this one of Britney
Spears' new Pepsi commercial just for fun which I couldn't download onto my own computer but it is played using SureStream at
16.6 Kbps through Real Player. 
Created
By Wendy Slopsema