As you know, I like games. Therefore I inform myself about the latest and upcoming games. Now, where do I do that? For one, I have subscribed to an (offline) game magazine. And for another thing, I watch trailers online at websites like G4TV1, Gamestar and I used to drop by at Gametrailers.com. What they all have in common, is annoying me with their in-between-video-advertisements.

When you want to watch a video, you watch it and it’s all fine. But as you want to watch a second video on the very same website, you have a 97 per cent chance to encounter an advertisement, before you can watch what you actually wanted to see. And there is no way of skipping the stupid ad!! The frame of the video2 penetrates the whole website and overrules all other codes thereon. As a result, the background blacks out, giving you no chance of clicking anything except for the close button on your browser window.

The worst part, however, is that first you need to load the advertisement video and then you can load the actual video. Let me tell you, I have not a very great bandwidth and it takes a few minutes to load a 2-3 minute video. So every time I want to watch a trailer, I can grab a coffee and wait for all the advertisements and videos to load. But how much coffee can you take?

As I said earlier, gametrailers.com was the spot for me to watch trailers. As they became more and more popular, their servers didn’t want to give me any chance to watch videos smoothely anymore. And when they finally offered their videos in high definition, I knew it was time to go.

Thus, in order to watch videos online, make sure:

  • that you have a fast internet connection
  • that you find a site that is not too overloaded with ads3
  1. which is quite informative although it has a strong focus on console games [↩]
  2. mostly done per flash [↩]
  3. an then find me to tell me about it [↩]

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