Tired of watching people try to put in captchas?

Christophe - good for you!!
@Steve, I'm not really all that bent out of shape about it, I'm just weary about it and expect to see more of the same, just like I expect the first person in line at the traffic light to not be paying attention when the light turns green. On the other hand, if people like Christophe actually take the time to edit out the junk, then it really makes their product stand out a little bit more, don't you think? And @Kevin - that is pretty funny!

this is so true, you can always fix it up later.

Or send it to your list, and ask how you can make it better, I have done this a few times.

It almost blew your head off? - Yes, because I was wearing headphones.
And yes, the captchas are necessary, it's just not necessary or instructional to see how well or how many times someone solves them in a video.

Maybe, but I'm suspecting laziness more often. We in the IM field are used to this, but you'll never see any of this kind of sloppiness in a corporate training video, a professional voiceover or an audio production with any standards to it.

Sure, there's people "grateful for the quality content and so will put up with it" but I've been watching the developments in the IM field for quite some years now and it looks to me that a few things have changed, especially in recent years:

1. A LOT more competition, coming fast and furious, with a lot of products with overlapping content. The WSO forum is a perfect example.

2. Truly ground-breaking, mind-blowing products coming to market almost don't happen any more, and if they do there's a good bit more skepticism applied to them before people buy. Gone are the days of people waiting for hours for the exact moment of the mega-launch to hit (ala Frank Kern or John Reece), salivating and dying to commit their 1 or 2k to be part of the elite and be served up the secret knowledge that was going to make them part of the elite.

So what, then? Then products, when they do come out, if they show more care and consideration applied to them than their competitors, will stand out more, and will make more sales - and that's the bottom line that matters, isn't it?

And speaking of a maturing market, aren't people nowadays more grateful to watch an 7 minute video with all the junk edited out of it ("ums" and waiting for stuff to load, filling in fields over and over again, doing something wrong and going back...you fill in the blank here) instead of a 10 minute video with all that junk left in?
Or is it that product creators feel more secure saying its a nice long "10 minute video"? This kind of stuff doesn't make them seem more human - everybody already knows they are human - the IM Gods have moved on, imho, so that humanness part can more appropriately be added in to the sales copy or blog posts or whatever, but if you are watching a video over and over again to understand it, the "humanness" gets OLD to me really quick and just leads to, at the very least, a less effective video that the customer is less likely to watch because it is so tedious. And some of it is just plain rude - for example, a lot of people listen to products with headphones on and a sudden change in volume (like a sneeze right into the mic) will hurt if the volume is cranked up from a video thats' audio level was too low to start with. And once again, this type of sloppiness is not tolerated in the rest of the business world.