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I've watched all the Aviation Disasters episodes, each one analyzes a crash. A cockpit video would have cleared up a couple of them, and would have resolved many more much quicker. For example, a video would show who was in which seat, who touched the controls, where the pilots were looking, what the pilots could see, etc.

Interesting, thank you.

It has that, but not showing who did it. Also if pilot needs to pull out a book or other manual, material, etc, FDR can't record that. Distractions of information given from attendants to the pilots is not given. Simple example: captain goes to restroom and second pilot passes out.. good luck figuring out why plane suddenly nose dived to the ground

Voice is incredibly useful for the reasons you outlined. I cannot believe that in an era of 1TB microSD that serious incidents like the Air Canada near miss can happen and the flight crew can escape accountability by allowing the CVR to overwrite itself.