Re: Old Content
We tell the members when we put an update up that has either been up in the past or is currently still available, but in the old formats. There are loads of sites, especially in the Amateur niche, that should be doing the same thing. Like us, they have lots of older content that was put out at lower resolutions due to people being primarily on dial-up in the past.
Keep in mind that when we launched Carol's website back in 1994, a 33.6k modem was the standard. We had to tailor our content to fit those dial-up speeds. That meant reduced images and very small low quality video. But we still have all that raw material! We're not doing the really old stuff (mainly Hi-8 video) as I have hundreds upon hundreds of mini-DV tapes to get through that will keep me busy for years!
If you have older videos on your site that are still sitting at 320X240, and you still have the masters, the members will actually love to see a re-edit at high qualities and larger sizes.
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