Guest Paul (MVP) Posted March 6, 2009 Report Posted March 6, 2009 Regular visitors to the site will know that we always start device review with an unboxing video which invariably includes a quick tour of the product. Love them or hate them there's no denying the popularity of unboxing videos, YouTube is full of them and our own unboxings are always highly viewed and solicit lots of comments. A few months ago Matt (from TracyAndMatt) and I were talking about unboxing videos and at the time we said 'we should really do something with our videos', as we both have a number of them on YouTube and a few sitting on some of the other video hosting services. After a couple of months of talking about it we finally did something and Matt and I are now pleased to announce the launch of our new site unboxings.com! We are both uploading our unboxing videos to the site (there are still some more to go on) but the site will act as one central place to have a look at past and present videos in, we hope, a cleanly laid out site. Between us we unbox new 'toys' every few days so there should be new contnt added fairly regularly. Of course we'll still have videos and reviews here on MoDaCo but unboxings.com will be a place to see only unboxing videos! Please do let us have your feedback. Matt and I are keen to know what you think of the site and the concept itself and why do you think unboxing videos are a love or hate thing? Enjoy! :( P
Guest penguin Posted March 6, 2009 Report Posted March 6, 2009 looking good paul :( only thing is the "Select a Catergory" drop down currently makes you scroll the whole browser window (latest firefox on win xp) down to see all the options
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted March 6, 2009 Report Posted March 6, 2009 Yeah, there's a few tweaks to be had! I've had the unboxings.com domain in my portfolio a while, figured I should probably do something with it... :( P
Guest Mysterious Stranger Posted March 6, 2009 Report Posted March 6, 2009 Wow. I've always wanted 1 central place to find exciting unboxing videos........of mains adapters. :( http://www.unboxings.com/htc-tc-p200-inter...unboxing-video/ Seriously, I do think it's a great idea for phones, netbooks et all. M.S
Guest Terry1100 Posted March 7, 2009 Report Posted March 7, 2009 I love unboxings - and I'm not sure why. Perhaps it's because you can often get to see if a lanyard loop is present (or even included) - it's "my one weakness" - and an absolute dealbreaker in a mobile device for me. It rarely gets mentiioned in reviews - The lage sized images on Expansys are also a good source.
Guest tsutton Posted March 7, 2009 Report Posted March 7, 2009 Would be good if you & T/M add subtitles to these videos from the link I sent you a while back. :( Great site, pretty useful & very visual!
Guest DarkWanderer Posted March 7, 2009 Report Posted March 7, 2009 I noticed that in the categories list you have two for Asus. One appears to be netbooks the other WinMo devices, maybe you should change the category titles to show this?
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted March 7, 2009 Report Posted March 7, 2009 They are actually subcategoried... I want to update the menu so the key categories are collapsed by default and you pick the one you want... P
Guest ccsnet Posted March 8, 2009 Report Posted March 8, 2009 (edited) Fantastic Paul... one comment.... on T&Ms site they have a button so you can get MSN Messenger updates when there is a new news item ( som thing you could do with here may be ? ) - is there any chance you can get the same added to Unboxing ? Bar that - the site has great potential plus its nice to see the major sites working together..... may be you could get Gears from Coolsmartphone involved too ? Terran Edited March 8, 2009 by ccsnet
Guest Monolithix Posted March 8, 2009 Report Posted March 8, 2009 ... on T&Ms site they have a button so you can get MSN Messenger updates when there is a new news item ( som thing you could do with here may be ? ) - is there any chance you can get the same added to Unboxing ? Terran And twitter :(
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted March 8, 2009 Report Posted March 8, 2009 http://twitter.com/unboxings :( Messenger updates to follow... P
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