A decade old camera review channel on YouTube, DigitalRev, has removed hundreds of old videos from their channel. Only about 9 remain.

While I’m not a big camera guy, and wasn’t aware of this channel beforehand, I heard about this on Linus Tech Tips’ WAN Show - apparently the page was a trusted resource for a lot of people.

The good news is, it does appear to be mostly(?) archived via archive.org. Not sure why it was pulled from YouTube, so there is a risk it could be pulled from Archive as well - if anyone wants to backup, now might be a good time.

  • grabber4321@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I mean they did mostly reviews from what I remember. Most of the tech was outdated by today’s standards. Plus once the main two people left around 5-6 years ago the show went into tailspin.

  • lgr142@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Obsolete reviews for now obsolete products. There is similar abundant material all over the internet.

  • roninIB@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    One of their presenters was extremely funny and the reviews were not “standard”. Often they got called the “top gear of cameras”.

    Their videos lost would be a catastrophe. I rewatch some of their challenges just for fun. Or the old Pro Photographer cheap Camera series. Thats legendary.

    Damn. Why did I never bother to download them.

    • grabber4321@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I mean they still do their own thing on their own channels right now and upload frequently.

      I agree about the Top Gear comparison. They were definitely entertaining.

    • chocoroboto@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Kai Wong, the main presenter still has a youtube channel that i watch from time to time. but i loved watching some old digitalrev videos from time to time, they were so fun! i bought my first canon DSLR because of them:)

      i wish i had downloaded the videos as well

  • deadeyejohnny@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Heard about this last week, wouldn’t you (as a YT channel) want to leave those videos up and continue to collect the passive revenue? Unless they had some deal with Kai and Lok where they paid out to them so long as the videos remained online… I wonder if Kai will address it.

    It was definitely still relevant to watch some of those older videos if you were shopping for a piece of used gear. Hopefully Digitalrev changes their minds and puts them back up!