Useless YouTube tutorials

[protek]

I was going through a few YouTube tutorials to get my Xbox360 dismantled and came to a conclusion that some of the flicks out there are just utter b*ll*cks!

The "best" example was an X-clamp removing tutorial, where all you could see was the bloke's wrists, when he was wrestling the X-clamp off and not a single glimpse how it was actually done. Only times when the actual X-clamp was shown was, when nothing was done to it.

Other fine examples are, where the camera is so poor that it isn't able to focus on close-up and you have to guess, what's going on, or when there's not narration about what's being done. I mean sometimes a picture isn't worth a thousand words. You can see what happens but there's no context to tell why this method is the best or if there's something to take into consideration, when using this method.

I do appreciate people spending their time to document and share their knowledge but in some cases we'd just be better off without.

 

[Merlin]

Have you managed to dismantle it, or do you need me to write an old-school style tutorial?

 

[commodorejohn]

90% of YouTube videos only exist because some loudmouth loves to hear themselves talk. It's most aggravating to me when I'm trying to find demos of a piece of musical gear I'm interested in, and half the videos are shot from someone's crappy webcam with the sound coming from its internal mic, and the actual sound I'm wanting to hear is captured through that mic from an external amp and muffled all to hell, all because otherwise we might miss out on the dulcet tones of the jackass doing the demoing!

 

[morcar]

For every 1 good video there are 50 bad ones on youtube.

 

[roy_bates]

there are plenty of useless crap videos on youtube,it really needs purging

 

[protek]

Have you managed to dismantle it, or do you need me to write an old-school style tutorial?

Oh yes. It's dismantled and waiting for me to get some flux, which should arrive next week. But thanks for asking!

Gladly, I found some good tutorials too regarding the dismantling and in the end it was pretty straightforward.

 

[AmiNeo]

Can you imagine the size of their server farm storage capacity and database for it all though!

 

[Nobby_UK]

Have you seen the vids by ThioJoe ?

 

[jimbob]

Youtube certainly is strong evidence for Sturgeons Law. On the other hand there are heartwarming, respectful works of great artistry such as this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj8PxMAG8rs

For some quality hand soldering tutorials, (not so relevant for Xbox repairs), complete with rockin bass playing on the intro, check these out -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhzRX_hqVUY

and this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0wI-5YZQm4