A popular technology is from http://www.mobileviewpoint.com/
At TNO we built a system called Cameraad, which uses citizen journalists
and their smartphone. Cameraad comes with a central director interface
showing where potential contributors are, and the news desk can give spoken
and written directions to its contributors.A bit like Meerkat/Periscope but
curated. Unfortunately the links are only in Dutch.
http://www.persinnovatie.nl/20068/nl/cameraad-livestreams-van-ooggetuigen-in-het-nieuws
Cameraad will shortly be built into one of most popular news apps in NL,
with millions of users.
Best - Rob
On 7 September 2015 at 03:22, <cooleman@xxxxxx> wrote:
In Amsterdam the local channel AT5 has a daily live show called De Straten
van Amsterdam, the streets of Amsterdam, in wich a reporter visits a street
in the city, and talks to a series of people, is shown around their homes,
asks about how the neighbourhood has changed, their lifestories and so on.
He or she is assisted by a regular camera/sound person, but a regular
citizen is fitted with a backpack, from wich a small alumium tube pops out
with a flat 4-6 inch disc on top of it. I am not shure what brand they use,
but LiveU http://www.liveu.tv/ is the or at least one of the pioneers of
the portable remote live reporting link market. They have been around for
so long, I kinda lost sight of the company, but I accidentaly walked
into its press conference at the IBC booth last year.
The only picture I could find was of a backpack with out the T shaped
radiator/antenna popping out, might be a newer model?
http://www.robstolk.nl/drukwerk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/AT5-1-613x460.jpg
Of course camera's have been fitted with wireless links for over a decade
now, I remember having a chance meeting with a BBC resesarch spin-off that
did that around a decade ago. And former cable distribution equipment
manfacturer, Standard Electronics Euro Distributor, turned into
distributor and systems integrator Link Research,now part of that siscom
comglmerate, sucessfully developed its own cofdm link system.
Not sure when it was exactly that I received the first announcement net
for a remote editing system, probably ahead of IBC 2009, claiming a world
first, from memory it was still a proxy based editing system, given the
remotelink and laptopower capabilities of the day.
Of course the quick to pick up hype shows jumped on Meerkat the slower
ones on Periscope, after Twitter wheeled its might around again.
Quoting Mark Schubin <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
In an emergency, for news, yes, mobile phones might be used. In a
planned situation, microwave or satellite. In between, bonded cellular
(multiple channels) and VPNs are possible -- even WiFi.
On 9/5/2015 7:34 PM, Mike Tsinberg wrote:
I have a question to this community. What technology is used by
broadcasters when they need some local content real fast? Do they
use consumer products such as mobile phones/tablets and consumer
apps or some other technology?
Best Regards,
Mike Tsinberg
http://keydigital.com
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