My initial response to both news sites was that the Virginia Pilot is most visually appealing and the Orlando Sentinel is most dull and less colorful. 

When you first enter the website it is plain like most news sites seem to be, but then when you click on the “media, entertainment or video” tab, you will find much more interesting and high tech videos to watch. 

The Orlando Sentinel had on its video page, a huge screen where you could watch short or long clips of several news stories.  This section was very easy to follow in a sense that there were tabs listed with cateogories such as: Top video, News, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Weather.  There were lots of pages of videos listed for the audience to view and I felt like this was a more extensive video selection than most news sites I have visited!!  I was pretty impressed with the layout and selection of the videos present in the Orlando. The quality of the videos were also impressive.

I did however also like how Virginia Pilot had flashy videos to play that switched to different stories while you were viewing the front page! And then when you click on “Video” it directs you to a video screen.  The video player is small but clear and there are many cateogories to choose from under the video player such as: New, Entertainment, local life, News, Viewer video, Traffic cams, local experts, autos, career, real estate.  And you can type in a search in the search engine and look for videos within the last 90 days.   I was very impressed with this use of media! 

Overall, I would have to say that these two have been the best of the new sites in terms of video media.  Both sites have a clear video player, sound quality sounded great, and selection was large and relevant to what the audience wants to see!  Aside from the video’s  The Orlando Sentinel was also impressive in their multimedia section in that there were gallaries, slideshows, photos, historical videos, and there were images of Florida and places around the world that were updated throughout the day.  So I guess I would have to say that I most enjoyed the Orlando Sentinel for its variety it offered.