Yes it's the travel that's so costly because the actual admission was pretty affordable. I got one leg of my flight free through points but I was looking at the costs of another con and, even without airfare and a fairly reasonable hotel, I'd be looking at some $600 for the weekend.
In my case I have other reasons to go to LA every year (and the con rate for the hotel was well below what I've run into for hotels there). So adding that on wasn't a hard choice.
However Jeff Pruitt does have a YouTube channel and while it doesn't seem any of the S4 footage is there segments like this can still give you an idea of what was shown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYBLXUhJB68
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In my case I have other reasons to go to LA every year (and the con rate for the hotel was well below what I've run into for hotels there). So adding that on wasn't a hard choice.
However Jeff Pruitt does have a YouTube channel and while it doesn't seem any of the S4 footage is there segments like this can still give you an idea of what was shown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYBLXUhJB68