What’s the one thing that separates the average person trying to cover news, and a multi-million dollar Television station like channel 3?
The ability to broadcast live. At channel 3 we have live trucks that cost thousands of dollars to beam the video back from the field. However that all could change in the coming months. There is a new service that is currently in Alpha testing, but should be released shortly: QIK-streaming video directly to the web from your cell phone.
The service is pretty much limited to Nokia phones currently, and you will want a WiFi enabled phone and or an unlimited data plan as streaming video hogs bandwidth.
Assuming you meet those requirements, you can stream live video from your phone to the web. Anytime, Anywhere – as long as you have a signal. Also any video you stream will be automatically saved on the website for playback later, and or upload to YouTube or the like.
Now obviously the quality is Cell phone video quality: but i can easily see it being used for breaking news, or any large media event. Here is the URL if your interested in finding out more!
Sorry for the long space between posts – i have been under the weather – I will strive to post more in the future!
This sounds like a neat option. Thanks for sharing!!