The disclaimer between brackets, because Thomas Hawk just published a blogpost with the same name, but from a video-producer’s perspective. It inspired me to write this one, from a consumer’s perspective.

Why I hate video:

1. Media is the most “unflat” industry on this planet: from iTunes Video, to Joost, to Hulu (to Pandora: not video), all of which aren’t properly available in the Netherlands and other European countries.
2. No separate audio-feeds: I don’t know about you, but I like audio-podcasts because I can listen to them and do something else. That doesn’t quite work with video. So I rarely watch them.
3. No transcripts: transcripts are useful, not because I want to read, but because 95% of the internet is text-based, and 100% of aggregation is text-based. If I want to find great tech-content, I check TechMeme. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really link up to interesting video-interviews like Robert Scoble’s (who is, btw, a much better video-producer than he is a blogger), but it links to “just another blogpost”(tm), because that is more easily searchable via Google.
4. Flash: It is the standard for online video, I know, but anytime my browser slows down, you can be sure that Flash is somehow involved. Flash, you suck.

That’s my short list! I’d add no connectivity to TV to it, but I have an old Xbox with media-centre on it, so that problem is solved ( at least for me).

Vincent