2010 year in review: Our favourite videos

By: Rogers_Richard

December 30th, 2010 a 9:57am

We’re big fans of online video. Our popular Rogers on Demand Online service was taken out of beta earlier this year giving you access to the hottest TV shows, movies and more via your web browser. As our CMO John Boynton said at Rogers TabLife TO earlier this month, soon we’ll be rolling out a version optimized for tablet users.

We’ve also created numerous video clips exclusively for RedBoard, allowing us to tell stories and do product demos in a new way and allowing you to quickly view and share content right on our website (or through our YouTube channel).

In part two of our series looking back at our favourite RedBoard moments, we present our five favourite RedBoard videos of the year, as well as why we’ve chosen each.

1. Next is Now: A whirlwind of data, statistics and predictions of what’s next for technology in Canada and worldwide, we unveiled this video at our Annual General Meeting in April.

2. Will It Blend? Rogers Handset Protection Guarantee: We sent our Miranda MacDonald down to Blendtec HQ in Utah to help spread the word on our Handset Protection Guarantee – and help prevent outoftheloopedness.

3. BlackBerry Torch 9800 Available from Rogers September 24: We realized you were really interested in the newest BlackBerry device when this preview of the Torch broke through the 10,000 mark in views on YouTube in just a few days. And yes, we agree: touchscreen + physical qwerty keyboard + BBM = awesome.

4. RIM’s David Neale on the New BlackBerry PlayBook and the Tablet Sector: In what became one of the world’s very first comprehensive demos of the soon-to-launch BlackBerry PlayBook, Neale unveils a prototype device, including a hands-on with the user interface, HD video and camera functionality. He also talks about what’s next for the tablet space in 2011 and beyond.

5. Rogers opens new Community Forums: A how-to video for our new Rogers Community Forums — a place to find solutions to technical issues, ask and reply to questions as well as discuss Rogers products and services.

Richard Bloom is a regular contributor to RedBoard.

Rating: 2.5/5 (8 votes cast)

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3 Comments

Tom says: January 4th, 2011 a 11:47am

Sorry, but Rogers on Demand Online holds no attraction to me until you do something about your bandwidth caps. I am sure the majority of users do not exceed their caps, but the few that do pay through the nose! On top of that, you could go months without ever exceeding your cap, then the one month you do, you are adding extra to our bill. Sad, you have to resort to this kind of billing!
- Rogers_Richard says: January 6th, 2011 a 4:18pm
  
  Hi Tom,
  
  Thanks for your comment and feedback,. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
  
  We are committed to providing all of our customers with the best Internet experience possible while maintaining competitive, fair monthly rates that reflect how you choose to use the Internet. As you noted, most Internet customers do not go over their monthly usage. Still, to help manage and monitor usage, we have tools available online so you don’t have to worry about incurring additional charges. Go to http://www.rogers.com and log in to My Account to see your usage details.
  
  Cheers,
  Richard.
  - Tom says: January 6th, 2011 a 4:31pm
    
    I use all of the Rogers tools and I do monitor my Internet usage. I have never exceeded my 60 GB. The point is though that if I did exceed my 60 GB in just one month, I would be billed extra. This is not fair. Also, if you use the Internet for a lot of streaming videos and watching Rogers on Demand Online and other such sites, you could very easily begin to exceed your usage limit thereby being subject to extra charges on a regular basis thus forcing people who don’t need crazy speeds into the high speed packages, just to get a few more gigs of usage they require. You have not convinced me Richard that Rogers needs to do this.