To reiterate my example.
I'm going back to grad school. Most graduate courses have both an "in class room" and "remote learning" options. I thought that I'd learn more by doing the "in class room" method, so I moved my whole life 3 hours away to campus.
The FIRST day of my math course (at 8:30 AM) the teacher said: "I know the recordings are mainly remote learners, but if they had this technology when I was in school. I would have never come to class." I went to the first 2 classes, and then after that just started downloading the MP4s. They're all up on a public, anonymous FTP server. I would love to be able to do:
Code:
<source>
<path>ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/proed/courses/</path>
</source>
And watch my class.
Right now I use mplayer on my MacBook, set the audio filter and watch at as fast of a speed as I can take notes. I usually finish a 50 minute class in 30.
With something like the
http://www.khanacademy.org/ online.
Plus there are my shows that I watch to keep up with current events. Daily Show, etc.
Or the shows I watch so I can keep up with water cooler talk. Jersey shore, etc.
Not every movie is Momento or every TV show Stargate Universe. Not all media needs to be savored. Even watching some shows at 1.1 speed, you really don't notice the difference after a while. (Until you go back to 1.0) and you've just saved your self 6 minutes per every hour of TV you watch.