A decade old camera review channel on YouTube, DigitalRev, has removed hundreds of old videos from their channel. Only about 9 remain.

While I’m not a big camera guy, and wasn’t aware of this channel beforehand, I heard about this on Linus Tech Tips’ WAN Show - apparently the page was a trusted resource for a lot of people.

The good news is, it does appear to be mostly(?) archived via archive.org. Not sure why it was pulled from YouTube, so there is a risk it could be pulled from Archive as well - if anyone wants to backup, now might be a good time.

  • lgr142@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Obsolete reviews for now obsolete products. There is similar abundant material all over the internet.

    • dr100@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      THIS. I don’t have time to watch probably 1-10% of the new stuff that might interest me, heck any time now I’ll give up and realise I won’t be able to make a dent in what I have ALREADY saved (I have in Pocket/readitlater many saves that are more than 5 years old, well probably more like 10-15, and there I need just to skim through an article and marked it read, and still I can’t just sit down every now and then and go through a few of them, even if they are all interesting).

      Yes, the content was really good but there was some “business change” a while back. I’ve no idea how anyone would try to monetise in any other way these videos, I think it’s impossible.

      The loss here is that when they were easily accessible and referenced by many people you find and revisit some funny thing, or small quirk, or something that stuck interesting that stuck in your mind and you could point people to them. But it really isn’t a big thing overall, except on ideological DHer principles.