Why are we using Google Video to deliver the rabbi's message:

1)

Problems with Windows Media Player:

Recent problems with Microsoft's Windows Media Player have resulted in a majority of our visitors not being able to view our video. The Google Video site uses technology that is independent of the Windows Media Player, thus avoiding the problem.

2)

Google Video allows the video to start playing immediately:

For those visitors who had previously viewed the video successfully, you know that it was not possible for the video to begin playing until the entire video had been copied from the internet onto your own machine. Depending on your connection speed, internet congestion, and congestion on the website which was storing our video, the wait time could be excruciatingly long.

The Google Video service is free (so the shul doesn't have to lay out money for a professional service to play our video on demand). And like everything else on Google, it is searchable. Viewers who are searching for our synagogue's website will have one more means of successfully finding it.