Hello all,

With your permission Guy?

For those who are also members of P3U and wonder why it's down, I'm afraid it's gone. It may come back up for a short while to say goodbye, but that'll be it. Finished.

I got this direct from Action this morning.

Dave

Hi Chris,

I don't know why and I'm not sure Al does either, but it has been dumped by the owners along with SDHVinfo and some other sites. He came up for air from what has been bogging him down this last few days to post a reply to the birthday wishes, he'd asked me to post as an interim measure, to find it gone. He tried to find out what was wrong and this was it!

As you say, it's a great shame, so many years build-up of useful information to be lost to us and a community scattered to the wind.

But Hey Ho, we have CCU.net (thanks Guy!) and there are others, so I guess we'll just have to soldier on without P3U. Maybe a few more will come here, let's hope so!

Dave

A few years ago, when I bought my first camcorder, I found Pana3ccd's forum and was elated.

I found tons of useful information in the active threads as well as through the search function.  I also noticed that a man named Guy Bruner had his finger on the pulse of what we were all interested in.

When the announcement came about a new forum I followed Guy over to CamcorderUser.  It is always my first stop for information and I post 90% of my commentaries/responses here.

Yes, I look at other forums daily, but this forum is what I consider my home.

It would be nice, as a service to their loyal forum members, if they post a link something like this for a couple of weeks:

"Pana3CCDUser is closing (for whatever reason). We thank you for your support. We respectfully refer you to http://www.CamcorderUser.Net for current postings and up to date information, advice and assistance for the camcorder enthusiast."

Well, I'm sorry to hear P3U and SonyHDVInfo are closed.  But, I'm not surprised.  They were losing money or barely breaking even when I left over two years ago.  We started it in September 2004 just after the GS400 was released.  I have not been on the forum in months and months.  The forum software dates from around 2001 and was not going to be updated.  It is disappointing but I'm sure it was a business decision.  If I had a copy of the database, I could merge it with CCU.net.

Everyone from P3U is welcome here.  I do hope they come and join us.  Please invite all your friends, colleagues and acquaintances to join us.

Like everyone else, I am surprised to see it go away as it did.

But, anyone who has been following it as of late, pretty much had to see if coming.

I am not sure if it is a maturing of the Internet, or a change in how people interact with it, but Pana3CCD and several other boards I frequent have been very quiet, compared to a couple years ago.

In a recent Dreamwever project I ran into a few smaller problems that I needed help with. One turned out to be a fluke CSS issue the forum Mod had never seen before...something unique. The others, I found the answers I needed via google searches, so there was no need to participate in a discussion to gain the information I needed. Often times in my google searches, forum threads are linked to in the results, which might be why open discussions on many have decreased. There has to be a time when almost every question is asked, isn't there

Well Guy.... you had better add a couple of new topic categories now. One I can think of would be "Peter's Christmas Gift" as that was topic of several threads and quite a few posts on PanaCCD.      

Shaun..... you make it sound like you are describing "dumping an old girl friend"         

Maybe they are going to resurrect it as pana3MOSuser! 

Jeff

Hi Dave

Yep, that's what Action told me...they are hoping that users will migrate to CCF but I would much rather see them here with Guy!!!  Watch out Guy your membership will hopefully get a big boost soon!!!

I wonder if there is any way to contact the rest of the 'regulars' from Pana3CCD and invite them here...no offence, but I don't really like CCF much!!!

Chris