Thank you to the thousands of viewers who tested our video redesign last week and to the dozens who sent feedback and suggestions. It's terrific to roll out a new HamptonRoads.tv redesign, the first since the site launched in 2005.

You can still send us design feedback and we'd really like it if you would take our Online Video Survey. Telling us what you like to watch takes less than 10 minutes (really! we timed our children with a stopwatch, and they did it in 7).

Here's what you've told us with your feedback so far:

• You really like bigger video. Comments from testers were 4-to-1 in favor of the new design, and doubling the video size got lots of great feedback. So did faster load times and smoother video playback.
• You wanted more-readable type. The No. 1 complaint during testing was hard-to-read headlines and text. We made some quick changes Monday to improve the color contrast, and we've got a few more design adjustments on the way.
• You like to share our videos with your friends. Look for easy ways within the next week to grab a video link, email-a-video and even embed a video in your blog or website.
• You want to share YOUR videos with the world. Most survey-takers are interested in uploading a video from time to time, and our new upload page streamlines the process. We can convert more video formats than before, and we've automated some of it to speed the time between upload and staff review.
• You like browsing our deep video library and re-discovering old favorites all over again. Whether you're listening to more than 100 local music videos, surfing staff favorites (anybody remember Roscoe the Escapee Dog?) or enjoying viewer videos, we've made it easier to browse and search thousands of unique local videos that you can't find anywhere else.

Actually, we do help you find our videos in a few other places, and some of those are changing with redesign as well:

• If you use RSS headline feeds to keep up with latest videos, you may have noticed that they're not currently updating. We should have new feeds for you in the next couple weeks.
• If you follow The Dot daily webcast on iTunes: We'll take a vacation from iTunes updates in August as we work through some technical issues. If we get a lot of feedback about The Dot on iTunes, we'll move this higher on the priority list.
• You can also get email updates about our videos when you sign up for our email newsletter, and you can see a selection of HamptonRoads.tv videos on the big screen by watching  HamptonRoads.tv On TV  on Cox Channel 11 Sunday nights at 8:30 p.m. The show repeats at various times throughout the week.

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