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plasmavideo wrote on 2/8/2006, 7:27 AM
Today's issue of Videography was much the same thing as well . . . .

Sorry guys - I ain't taking the laptop with me to read in the john. There are times when "read this article online" just don't cut it!
baysidebas wrote on 2/8/2006, 7:42 AM
All of the "trade" film and video production magazines have been on a weight loss diet the past few years. Some are succumbing and going to electronic form only. Don't be surprised if by year's end there's only a couple left still being delivered in paper form.
John_Cline wrote on 2/8/2006, 7:47 AM
read in the john

Do you mean the bathroom?

John
plasmavideo wrote on 2/8/2006, 8:24 AM
Oops - sorry, should have been more sensitive to the user base here!!!
corug7 wrote on 2/8/2006, 8:45 AM
The inventor of the Water Closet was a man by the name of John Harrington. Thus, the name "John."
Peter Burn wrote on 2/8/2006, 9:03 AM
Film & Video and Millimeter are still fairly substantial...
dibbkd wrote on 2/8/2006, 9:06 AM
The inventor of the Water Closet was a man by the name of John Harrington. Thus, the name "John."

Wrong, this is where "John" came from:

King Richard: From this day forth, all toilets in this kingdom shall be known as "Johns"!

(Robin Hood - men in tights)

:)
Spot|DSE wrote on 2/8/2006, 9:09 AM
The biggest challenge for DV is to match their advertising costs to what everyone else is charging, particularly when DV has lost a lot of its former prestige and exclusivity. They need new writers, they need more contributing editors, and they need to lose the prejudices they've always carried.
Fortunately, they at least stepped out of the box for the Vegas review, but that was an idea from a former chief editor. They've gone thru 3 in as many years.
Good magazine, good people, big company, but they're just not in line with everyone else when it comes to advertising rates and number of contributors, and they don't have the huge circulation they once had.
Quryous wrote on 2/8/2006, 9:28 AM
It was Sir Thomas Crapper who was knighted for his invention of the device which bears his name.
johnmeyer wrote on 2/8/2006, 9:31 AM
As the video editing software industry consolidates, so too will the magazines. In the early days of desktop publishing (my old stomping ground) there were over fifty books on our product alone (Ventura Publisher), and almost a dozen DTP publications. Within a few years after we sold the company, there were only a few. It is inevitable.
dand9959 wrote on 2/8/2006, 9:40 AM
The Tom?
Coursedesign wrote on 2/8/2006, 10:16 AM
I got the latest issue of DV magazine via PDF yesterday.

The PDF was much nicer to navigate than the insane Zinio format some other publications have tried.

Still, I just clicked on the link instead of downloading it completely before reading, so most pages were blank (pages are only downloaded on demand). To read a PDF online this way is baaaad.

John_Cline wrote on 2/8/2006, 10:23 AM
No offense taken, really. I just like to give people some good natured "crap" about calling a toilet the "john."

I've gotten used to all the various things called "john": a toilet, a prostitute's customer, long underwear...
johnmeyer wrote on 2/8/2006, 10:56 AM
I've gotten used to all the various things called "john": a toilet, a prostitute's customer, long underwear...

At least your last name is not Johnson ...
plasmavideo wrote on 2/8/2006, 1:21 PM
QUOTE: "The Tom?"

Touche!

Tom
DavidMcKnight wrote on 2/8/2006, 3:13 PM
At least your last name is not Johnson ...

...unless your middle name is Thomas...then it'd be called "the John Thomas"