I realize that not everyone is happy about the email signup. However, producing such a screencast requires a sizable amount of effort. It's a marketing initiative after all, and a signup allows us to make contact with a person who is potentially interested in other revelant screencasts (both free and commercial).
It really doesn't take long to sign up and then immediately unsubscribe after the download, if you are not interested at all in other free and commercial screencasts.
Perhaps providing a 10 or 20 second sample free -- right there on the page linked to -- would persuade people to do the email sign-up in order to get the rest of the screencast.
Without a sample, we really have no idea what it is, nor whether or not it would be worthwhile to take the time to do the email signup. For example, does it show coding happening in an editor? Some kind of graphical program? Is the output animated? We really can't tell just from the title if it's something that would interest us.
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Without a sample, we really have no idea what it is, nor whether or not it would be worthwhile to take the time to do the email signup. For example, does it show coding happening in an editor? Some kind of graphical program? Is the output animated? We really can't tell just from the title if it's something that would interest us.
+1 on offering ogv format, btw. :)
Edit: It's live now. Thanks.