Joe,

This sounds great!  I love the focus and how it won't be about MRH, but about the modeler.

Well, I for one am eagerly awaiting this service, It sounds great to me!

1) Will videos be able to be downloaded locally to one's computer/tablet/phone/etc... for offline watching and archiving

or

is everything going to be streamed online and once you cancel you loose it all?

2) If I subscribe a few months after it goes live will I still have access to all previously released videos?

1) Will videos be able to be downloaded locally to one's computer/tablet/phone/etc... for offline watching and archiving

For the sub price you get free access to the full library for the duration of your sub. If you want an offline copy you can keep, that's an extra fee per video you want to own.

2) If I subscribe a few months after it goes live will I still have access to all previously released videos?

You will have free access to the full library for as long as you subscribe.

I'll adopt early and subscribe annually.  Where do I sign up?

Sounds like a neat project, Joe, and certainly something that I would be interested in.

Tom Patterson

if maybe the RPM was slower...or the grit not too coarse....maybe 10,000 grit...do they make that as self-adheisive for power tools?  And was the base level?  If each piece of lettuce had been, ah,  'sandwiched' in-between some thin birch ply... gnuck gnuck gnuck!

ANYWAY...I think this is big news!  It would be nice to actually hear the voices of the people on here, not just the typed words.  If the interviewees are a member on this forum can you type up their 'handle' on the screen or something so we know who they are?

And btw, I personally think the initial price numbers thrown out there are really quite reasonable.  How much do you pay for anything once-a-month at that rate?  MRH mag itself is free, so I have no qualms about paying for some extra stuff.

The problem is, no one wants to pay for things. They expect it all to be free. Sure, not everyone has the budget to buy everything they want, but that's a matter of priority. I was thinking of (and may still do) doing videos on how to plan and build your first model railroad. Most people would prefer to watch someone do something before they try it themselves.

The model I was working with, would be $5 for each video. Once I had enough video produced, I figured I could create a subscription, giving access to all videos currently produced, and all future videos for as long as your subscription was valid. My working price was to be $100 a year, if you paid for a year at a time. That's less than $10 a month, or the cost of two videos.

Now I have done video production, and I know the amount of time and effort that goes into it. It pretty much has to be able to support the person doing it, in order to be feasible. It takes roughly 10 hours to produce one hour of finished video. That is a lot of time and effort. It takes skilled people to set up the cameras, lights and sound. It takes skilled people to sound professional in front of a camera. It takes skilled people to run the cameras. It takes skilled people to edit the video and sound, to create all the things most people don't realize are there, but will notice if they are not, and most of all, it takes skilled people to put the video into a format that others can watch.

If you think anything less than $10 a month is too much to pay, especially for the quality you know you are going to get, buy some equipment and editing software, and try it yourself. I can tell you right now that the people putting it together, put a lot more than $10 effort into producing something like this.

Looks like it is worth a try. Joe has not failed us yet on the products he produces. Pound for Pound MRH is just as good if not better than the "paper guys" out there who I have been feeding for 40+ years.

SP over Donner

PK Stanley

While I agree with Ken that "free" is just a pie in the sky (MRH is not free, it' supported by the ads), I really think that overproducing a video is sometimes not what we expect or need. All the fancy bells and whistles (background music, elaborate video effects and so on) are, in my humble opinion, not needed in a video that is intended to show the way to do something. Put a camera where it can catch a good view of the action IN FOCUS, get somebody that can speak CLEAR ENGLISH (extra points for close caption. Ya know, many of us are not spring chicken anymore), go straight to the point without wandering around (if we are modeling trees a whole botany course is overkill) and that is it. Everything else, while nice, is not necessary to deliver the message, but costs extra time and money. Now let me run for cover. Jose.