Broadcast Live From The Palm of Your Hand

Delivering "Broadcast Quality" live mobile video, with a little help from our friends!

Yes, it's true... With a little (actually a lot) of help from our friends from Nokia and Avid at NAB, we were able to demonstrate the ground-breaking live video transmitting at up to 30 fps at 640 x 480 resolution, streaming from a mobile phone over a wireless data network to an Avid® nonlinear editing system.

Install PocketCaster on your Nokia N95 phone, press start, and with a HSDPA data connection you can now get full screen video imported in real-time by an Avid system (via DV25 over IEEE-1394).  Anyone using a Nokia N95 device -- including field reporters -- can now capture and broadcast video directly to air and concurrently stream live video to Web-portals, blogs and 3G-enabled phones. 

Here's what our friends had to say about it...

"As mobile devices continue to grow in popularity, it's becoming easier for people to capture video on the the fly, especially in breaking-news situations," said Johnathon Howard, director of On-Air Product Management at Avid. "The Nokia N95 with PocketCaster software is a great example of how the world of content is changing, and enabling virtually anyone to capture and share video clips to multiple outlets."

"Nokia is pleased to see ComVu leveraging the open platform and powerful video capabilities of the Nokia N95," says Bill Plummer, Vice President, Multimedia Sales and Channel Management, Multimedia, Nokia North America."This marriage of Nokia handheld multimedia computers to ComVu's PocketCaster application and automated delivery systems and Avid's media solutions heralds an all new era in virtually anytime, anywhere broadcasting."

Read more...

If you're interested in hearing more about this solution for your organization, please let us know at: sales (at) comvu.com. We'll get you up and going quickly.

Revolutionary? Affirmative, Captain

If Reiter's Mobile TV Report says that PocketCaster is "revolutionary", we accept that. Today's post by industry guru Alan Reiter, includes the following:

"ComVu's live streaming wireless/wired video application: Revolutionary?

I don't like to use the word "revolutionary" (which is why I've inserted a question mark in the headline), but for ComVu's live streaming wireless and wired video application (see below) the term actually might be appropriate."

Read more on ComVu PocketCaster and the rest of the Mobile TV Industry in Reiter's Mobile TV Report blog.

In reponse to Alan's frustration that ComVu's white paper was only in .pdf, here is a link to the .doc format: ComVu_MVS_v04.12.doc . Thanks to Alan for looking at ComVu's technology and offering his market perspective.

I don't like to use the word "revolutionary" (which is why I've inserted a question mark in the headline), but for ComVu's live streaming wireless and wired video application (see below) the term actually might be appropriate."

AVID Adds PocketCaster Live Video to Student Blog

Please check out the great job that student reporters are doing at NAB 2007, by visiting the AVID Student Blog.

You can watch these "Emerging Media Professionals" real-time from a PocketCaster feed coming from onsite in the AVID booth at NAB. (Press play button on media player to check for live stream).

Find us at NAB 2007 (It's Easy)

Anyone going to NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) in Las Vegas this week, here's how to find ComVu PocketCaster at the show:

"Go in the South Hall, walk forward about 5 feet, look up at the AVID booth (largest at the show), that's it!"

We're partnering with AVID (Booth #SL106) in demonstrating end-to-end technologies for "Emerging Media Professionals".

ComVu team will be making live presentations periodically during the day on the main stage.

AVID sponsored teams of student reporters are roaming the conference halls starting this morning, covering all the latest breaking news "live" using PocketCaster integrated directly with AVID's solutions.

To schedule a specific meeting time at the booth or in a conference suite, please email us at: contact(at)comvu.com.

For more information, download ComVu's solution white paper for "Broadcasters, Field Reporters & Media Professionals" - ComVu_MVS_v04.12.pdf

Interview with ComVu

Many thanks to Benjamin J. Higginbotham at Technology Evangelist for his interview with ComVu's Scott Jamar at the recent VON Conference.

Scott discusses the key features of PocketCaster, ComVu's business model and where the industry is moving.