"Use your viewfinder to avoid annoying those in the audience"

Was at a concert last week at my kid's high school, and before it
started there were the usual requests to a) turn off your cell phones,
b) no flash photography, c) don't use LCDs on camcorders or cameras, use
the viewfinder.

As usual there were the annoying people in the audience recording the
entire performance with the LCD illuminated the whole time. I wonder if
the concertmaster even realized how few new P&S cameras and camcorders
even have a viewfinder any more.

Personally I wish they would just ban all photography and recording at
these performances, and enforce it. Most of the videos and photos are
exceedingly poor quality anyway because of the lighting, plus the school
offers a DVD of the whole performance for just a few bucks. If you want
a photo of your kid from the audience you can't get it without a D-SLR
with a good quality IS lens, but you can always go up to the stage after
the concert for photos.