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[unbibium]

By this time next year, a substantial percentage of podcasts will be video, because it will have become much cheaper and easier to do so. Open source applications will be available to do real-time video switching, cue cards, and picture-in-picture video for local-news-style production.

It would be a shame if audio podcasts all converted to video. Audio is something you can listen to in a car, or at work. Video is something you have to sit in your chair and stare at.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

There will be a fad, but it will subside. Talk radio still exists, after all (for better or for worse), and most of the attempts to put talk radio stars on TV (Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern) were failures. Most people who make interesting podcasts probably can't produce a video picture worth looking at.

[pootrootbeer.livejournal.com]

People were predicting that an explosion of "vlogging" was right around the corner two years ago, too, and it still hasn't happened.

For one thing, the "pod" in "podcasting" comes from "iPod", and Apple still hasn't announced a video-capable model of that device. A reason for that, and also a reason why video-podcasting isn't a practical medium yet, is what you said -- video requires much more attention from the user than audio-only content does.

For another thing is what Matt said -- a lot of compelling audio content does not gain anything from having video added to it, and in many cases becomes LESS compelling. And even once we do have Cheap As Free video capture and editing suites on every PC, few people will possess the skills to use those tools to produce anything worth watching.