OT: portable streaming vehicle

richard-courtney wrote on 7/25/2009, 2:46 PM

Saw this in this month's HDVideoPro magazine

http://www.todocast.tv/video/TODOCAST_DVD_400.flv

$30,000 seams a bit high for vehicle gear and then add the streaming costs.

We had looked at DVB (digital video broadcast) where reception is done
with small satellite systems ($200 for FTA receiver and 90cm dish).
You stream to the uplink site (unicast) and they convert to mpeg and
send out with other video providers. Averages around $400 per hour.

Anyone doing events with streaming video using this todocast service
or other IP streaming?

I know not every location has high speed internet to get it to uplink and customers
may not have the dish systems to receive.

Comments

John_Cline wrote on 7/25/2009, 4:10 PM

I do streaming webcasts on location all the time, it's really easy and inexpensive. I use a company called "IDoStream." Their business is primarily to stream weddings, but I use them for other stuff since I've never actually been brave enough to do wedding videos of any kind.

I've streamed webcasts to a global audience using a variety of Internet connections; hardwired, WiFi and I even did one in the middle of nowhere entirely on battery power using a laptop with a cellular wireless modem. I do one or two events a month and it's been a great revenue stream. It's not HD, but it can look and sound quite decent.

http://www.idostream.com