First Outdoors Videocasts Online

OUTDOORSmagic regulars may have read that Bob Cartwright of backpackinglight.co.uk, aka 'Pod Bob' has diversified from his original audio podcasts into video casts in the shape of The Outdoors Channel.

The good news is that Bob now has two new feeds which you can copy and paste into your iTunes 'subscribe to podcast' section - 'open Stream' under 'Advanced' on the Mac version - to access TOC podcasts using, erm, iTunes.

The first is:

http://toc.hipcast.com/rss/audio.xml

This subscribes you to audio programmes including the new editions from TGO Magazine.

The second, and this is the exciting one, is:

http://toc.hipcast.com/rss/video.xml

That one is the feed for the new video podcasts and should give you access to the first two which feature UK gregory importer Hugo Youngman giving overviews of the Gregory Z and G packs.

The files are around 20 MB in size, so don't try this if you're still lurching along the communication superhighway in a dial-up jalopy...

If you can't access the broadcasts via iTunes then you can link to them direct from this page at www.theoutdoorschannel.co.uk

We'll be honest here and admit that unless you're fascinated by the vagaries of Gregory packs, the first two videocasts aren't the most gripping examples of online entertainment out there, but it's early days and the very fact of their existence, underlines the potential of the medium.

We're looking forward to seeing how things develop :-)