Cinema and the Computer

Film, as it were, is a physical medium. Light creates an image on the film, and one can literally see that image when it is held to light. As M stated in a previous post, there exists a stark difference between film and its new counterpart video. Video is electronic signals scribed on tape, which, when held to light, procures no visible image. In my humble opinion, video should not be used in place of film. In the movie theater, one should be allowed to watch a film, not a video.
The video's place in this world is the internet. YouTube, Vimeo, Veoh and similar websites exist for the world to post their own creations for the world to see. There remains, however, a genre for different types of videos. There's a video blog, home videos, and FanFilms/Narratives. My largest problem with the online content of today lies within the separation of said genres. Many people use YouTube to post home videos and blogs, but lately it's been more about actual narrative videos. I feel these should be separated. Vimeo is a place to put up high-quality, narrative style videos in a social networking fashion. YouTube has only recently made the "High Quality" and "HD" capabilities to their videos, since so many people are posting their narrative videos, when Vimeo has been doing it for quite a while.
I don't want to visit YouTube to watch other people's poor (and sometimes decent) attempts at making narrative videos. The result is often that the videos are never viewed anyway, since the server is so bogged down with home videos and blogs.
The computer has made cinema less of a piece of art. Many young teenagers of today hope to become filmmakers, simply because they have access to a digital video camera and a generic editing software preinstalled on their computers. I say: leave the art to the professionals. Make your little videos for class, your class projects, but don't expect to make it into the business with those videos.