At their own home my clients will still watch their own film on a tv and very often on a dvd and they have a usb stick with the wedding as a HD mp4 file which they can plug into a tv when needed, I only see that about every mail I get has a signature like "send from my ipad" and I think that is being used a lot at home but also as soon as they leave their house. Dvd's however are still very popular and still get used a lot by the parents and grandparents, blu-ray however is hardly requested. I do however notice more interest in 4K as I do get asked at weddings what difference it makes, my ax100 has a 4K logo on the side and I have had guests coming up to me asking about it, something I never encountered with HD so they are starting to be aware about it, especially since 4K tv's are pushed hard in sales.

At their own home my clients will still watch their own film on a tv and very often on a dvd and they have a usb stick with the wedding as a HD mp4 file which they can plug into a tv when needed, I only see that about every mail I get has a signature like "send from my ipad" and I think that is being used a lot at home but also as soon as they leave their house. Dvd's however are still very popular and still get used a lot by the parents and grandparents, blu-ray however is hardly requested. I do however notice more interest in 4K as I do get asked at weddings what difference it makes, my ax100 has a 4K logo on the side and I have had guests coming up to me asking about it, something I never encountered with HD so they are starting to be aware about it, especially since 4K tv's are pushed hard in sales.

Well then, you just contradicted yourself.

No I didn't, I said "at their friends place" which is different from their own or their parents and grandparents place. Dvd is still a very popular medium, but tablets are quickly replacing pc's and laptops and they are easy to take along but if they want to enjoy it fully, they still will be watching it on a big tv.

No I didn't, I said "at their friends place" which is different from their own or their parents and grandparents place. Dvd is still a very popular medium, but tablets are quickly replacing pc's and laptops and they are easy to take along but if they want to enjoy it fully, they still will be watching it on a big tv.

OK, I stand corrected on a minor technicality.

I've shot two wedding videos..... my step daughter, who got divorced 3 months later, and my own wedding in Thailand. Neither my wife nor I have ever watched our wedding video, instead she just looks at the photos, uploads photos onto Facebook etc. However, I know if she had access to the wedding video on her iPad she would watch it more and share it with her friends.

It must be a rare kind a couple who sits around the house loads in the DVD and watches their wedding videos more than once!

My wedding video (made in the 80's) was 1,5 hour long and we watched it only once on our vhs recorder, today I make 20 minute films which I believe is about as long as you can go before people will start to use the remote to fast forward. Now and then I do get some very excited brides that hired me that regularly check my site and respond every time I post a new video, those are also the ones that will keep watching their wedding videos much more then you might expect. The shorter it is, the more it will be watched, that's why a 3-5 minute trailer is popular and most likely watched on tablet on phones.

You don't...... you convert it into an MP4. According to Noa Put, one of my favorite wedding video shooters in the world. Hardly anyone watches DVD's anymore.

It's nice to have a back up hard copy in the form of a DVD but if you want to share it put it on your mobile device. Steve, in the future perhaps you should offer that option along with a DVD.

I've been offering digital copies for 5 years now. I have Trailers online, but as my clients want longform videos, their length between 75 to 150 minutes makes it difficult to place online, and only done if the couple live abroad. Connection speed round my way is a bit crap. 10 hours to upload a 2 hour video to Vimeo is maddening. I also do 30 minute cut downs of the main video, but it has copyright music; licensed for disks, but not online distribution. The answer would be to do a 15 minute highlight reel; this though takes time and my workload pushed me this year as it is. Something to consider for my higher paid clients.

I don't know how often my clients watch their videos; for most they are still watching on the TV, and I don't see that changing with Smart TV's giving access to online videos. I frequently watch Youtube content on my TV thanks to Chromecast. Would a couple really watch a 2 hour video together round a tablet or in the comfort of their living room on their large TV. I don't see the end of television sets just yet.

I don't see the end of television sets just yet.

Ofcourse not, they are only getting bigger and bigger and getting a more prominent place in the livingroom.