If you missed seeing the "sneak peek" demonstration at CES, don't worry. We're joining Intel again, and taking the show on the road to the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Come see the next step in mobile video... User-generated broadcasting to a map "mash-up".
Either set up an appointment with us in advance (contact@comvu.com) or just stop by Intel's booth #8B109.
A senior reporter from a major TV news organization discovered the joy of livecasting this week as he roamed around events in Des Moines, Iowa with his ComVu PocketCaster enabled phone, interviewing residents about the candidates.
No large camera crew or extensive set up required as he walked freely through the crowds, stopping to chat, but not intimidate. The news team back at the studio monitored the livecast feeds coming in from the field, and while the news commentator chatted with the reporter, his live video was simultaneously broadcast "live on air".
Steve at FNC (Mediabistro.com) broke the news and made the post with a screen capture of the TV broadcast.
"...with the MSNBC ComVu Cam. Shuster talked on the phone with anchor Alex Witt as he transmitted live pictures back to MSNBC. The report was about Oprah Winfrey's visit to Iowa in support of Sen. Barack Obama."
We always assumed that a wireless industry trade show (a.k.a. 3GSM World Congress) would generate the highest levels of concentrated EMF waves of anywhere on earth. We were wrong.
Try a rock concert in a stadium bowl with more than 15 separate WiFi networks, huge power generators, satellite transponders, millions of watts of strobbing lights, and some 50,000 cell phones all converging.
As they say, "the show must go on", crowded spectrum and all...and it did!
For all of you who caught the event, I'm sure you'll agree that the MySpace LIVE! Projekt Revolution concert was not only a really, really, great entertainment experience, but clearly set the bar high for where live entertainment events are going with UGC.
MySpace LIVE! fans, Kelly, Scott and the others did a great job broadcasting with PocketCaster on their N95's (no, Nokia didn't let them keep them, but they did get a lot of back stage access and many other premiums.)
BTW, our pick for "next gen" digital entertainment director of the year: Mark Scarpa, at http://www.simplynew.com. If you're looking for a proven vetern director in the entertainment industry, whose mastered the delicate art of mixing up to ten professional camera feeds with user-generated mobile video for a live event...he's the guy. Hats off to Mark, Steve and the team.
In a MySpace LIVE! first, five fans at the Projekt Revolution concert, armed with PocketCaster on Nokia N95's will take video footage of the concert, which will be incorporated into the live stream on MySpace.
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The crew is flying into Clarkston, Michigan today with set up and preparation underway tomorrow. The Wednesday broadcast is scheduled for a record breaking six hours.
Featured main stage acts such as Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, HIM, Placebo and Julien-K, will be streamed live.
The five young fans with mobiles in hand, will assume their roles as the live mobile broadcast crew for the event, and will become a part of MySpace history. And of course, furthering the ComVu PocketCaster vision of enabling anytime, anywhere broadcasting from the palm of your hand.
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
The ComVu team caught a little sunshine in Phuket last month while demonstrating PocketCaster and our new Mobile Video Studio at the exclusive Mobius 2006 events. Sponsored by Microsoft, Mobius 2006 was held in two locations: Boston, Massachusetts and Phuket, Thailand. Mobile Video Studio provides organizations with an end-to-end broadcast control solution. The breakthrough online service allows users to simultaneously monitor, manage and map multiple live streams. |
| ComVu's presentation demonstrated how multiple PocketCaster equipped Windows Mobile 5.0 devices could transmit their live video feed to the Mobile Video Studio, where incoming videos can all be simultaneously monitored. Any stream can dynamically be selected as the 'master broadcast' stream allowing for large-scale viewing on a website, blog, or mobile phone. The master video can also be used as a live video source to feed a traditional television broadcast. |
All live streams are concurrently archived server-side by ComVu media servers and any archive may also be mixed within the master broadcast. Comprehensive meta data control, GPS indexing, multi-facetted search, one button viewer notification, security and RSS integration are all provided within the service offering.
For more information, see http://www.comvu.com/comvu/Solutions4.htm. |
As we start our blog, we of course think of all the events and announcements made prior to "blog start date" such as ...
MOBILE MONDAY (HELSINKI), GLOBAL SUMMIT 2006.
One of our hightlights this past summer was being awarded the top prize in the business-to-consumer category of the MobileMonday Global Peer Award held in Helsinki, Finland and sponsored by Nokia. ComVu was selected by the 15-country jury, out of 21 finalists from around the world, for our PocketCaster service! The 2nd annual MobileMonday Global Summit brought together mobile business leaders and over fifteen hundred participants from around the globe. The event conference sessions, focused on mobile trends and visions, profitability for businesses and fun for consumers.
The MobileMonday award was fantastic for us - attracted global recognition and awareness, and we made some really great friends in Helsinki ... and apparently no vodka was involved. Our grandest thanks to the local MobileMonday chapter for nominating us!
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