Got my copy of the highlights DVD from PDC today. I had no idea this DVD even existed until Simon mentioned it in an earlier post i made about the conference DVD This DVD contains the slides AND video from the 27 top presentations at the PDC. Now this a great thing to have! Nice, high quality video of the speaker and the demos that you can be proud to show your friends. I am especially pleased to see that they have the architecture symposium on there as well since I think that was one of the better session at the conference.
Oh yeah, they also sent everyone another copy of Office 2K3 in the package. Nice. The one given out at the PDC didn’t work with Visual Studio Tools for Office so we all got another copy.
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So I take it back (well some of it). In my last post I takled about the PDC Conference DVD and mentioned that there was no video on it. Well as it turns out, there is indeed video of the demonstrations. I must have watched a 1/2 dozen presentations both on the MSDN site and off the DVD and didn’t once see any video so I assumed this was true for the rest of the DVD as well. Today, I decided to check out some of the Avalon sessions I missed and what do you know… some fuzzy video of the actual coding! YAY. So there is some video after all (even though the quality is poor). I guess I’m just interested in boring topics, lol.
But the DVD is still a waste of money because it’s still the same content on the MSDN site as well (they have fuzzy video too).
So I guess I’ll get back on the short bus and go home now….
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Well I got my PDC Conference DVD after nearly a 3 month wait (4-6 weeks was the estimate). I may be a little naive but I thought this was something to look forward to. Boy was I wrong. What a total waste of $200! Granted it wasn’t my $200 but a waste nonetheless. Basically the DVD contains everything you can get for free on MSDN. Where is the video!? Every session I sat in had a big professional looking video camera in the back presumably taping these sessions. I figured a 2 DVD set would contain at the very least the keynote videos, but they conatin bupkis. The video from the sessions would be nice to have as well because you could actually see the demos as they are running them.
The one redeeming thing about having the DVD is that I can view the sessions offline on the train, which isn’t that big of a deal.
Live and learn.
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