Digital Video - December 2008 - (Page 30) CLICK TO PLAY BY NELS JOHNSON REAL-TIME WEBCASTING FOR ALL QA & TODOCAST OFFERS A MOBILE WEBCASTING SOLUTION THAT COULD GIVE YOU THE EDGE. Figure 1. This is how TodoCast videographers roll. (Vehicle not included, of course.) I n the July 1999 issue of DV, I covered a live Webcast featuring a performance by the Loud Family (a San Francisco pop band; see Figure 2 on page 32). I’d been to the T1-equipped (so they said) studio to make sure it was really happening, then back to home to enjoy the rest of the show in grainy, quarter-screen real time on RealPlayer G2 at 128K. That it was even watchable suggests I was one of the 8 or 10 online fans such bandwidth metrics could theoretically accommodate simultanesously. Far as I know, no clips from this show are available on YouTube (yet). The month before, I mentioned a Nash Bridges episode (circa Q1 1999) involving live Webcasting by a young woman wrestling skinny white guys while ironing. Naturally she was dressed for hot weather, so good thing the production values looked even better than 320x240 MPEG-1 (considered excellent even for local playback back in the day). According to the actress, hundreds of customers were logged in at a dollar per minute. Not quite the Russian camgirl experience you can get today (sorry, no pictures here), but even Nash had limits. dv december 2008 Both of these cyber-events (and others like them) raised expectations for real-time Webcasting. Each depended completely on the Internet. Neither has much in common, except for the sex and money parts, with the state of real-time Webcasting 10 years later. To get a clear picture of the hardware and software employed by today’s broadcasters-turned-Webcasters, I spoke with Bryan Hill (president/CEO) and Brian Roland (director of global video services) of TodoCast (www.todocast.tv) — an outfit that exploits both the Web and satellite technology to deliver a unique mobile Webcasting solution (Figure 1, above). Browsing the TodoCast site prior to reading this interview, including watching the demo clip and reviewing their pricing model, will give you an excellent context for DV’s questions, which follow here. DV: Can we start with a background check and a mission statement? Bryan Hill: I have a banking background but got involved in the www.dv.com 30 http://www.todocast.tv http://www.dv.com
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