MY PARENTS:: HD TV USABILITY

My parents love new gadgets – anything “hi-tech”, shiny and expensive.  When they brought home their first  SONY BRAVIA HD TV, they were so excited to see those 4:3 channels stretched out to 16:9 – they actually like to see the image stretched out because it is bigger and as we all know, bigger is better!!

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Nico McLane Launches Recession Friendly Webcast Facility in Financial District NYC

Nico McLane, Inagueral Streaming Media All-Star
Nico McLane, Inagueral Streaming Media All-Star

Nico McLane, Streaming Media All Star and producer in NYC launches services for Financial District studios, partnered with AmericanMovieCo.com and iAxsis to deliver live HD Broadcasts to satellite and to the web.

New York City, New York (Press Release) December 4th, 2008 – Nico McLane has announced today the launch of premium streaming media services in New York City’s Financial District; with expert advisory, streaming media has the potential to provide substantial savings for large and medium sized corporations in many of their communication and marketing efforts, a critical consideration in the current economy; the streaming team, led by McLane specializes in budget conscious production, planning and delivery based on unique, customized ROI assessments for each client.

The facility supports live HD Satellite Broadcasts (National and International), media tours, Fortune 500 Quarterly Earnings Announcements, Press Conferences, eLearning sessions and provides professional services including live webcasts, media portal design and development and much more.

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TANDBERG – TCS Intervention :: INLET – Spinnaker 7000 :: Shoot out immeinent

Hello gorgeous!  Just when I was ready to give up on my industry and technology partners, faith is restored… allegedly.

We shall see how the follow-through plays out in the real world, but it appears that our friends at Tandberg not only have no fear of the Nico implementing their TCS (Tandberg Content Server) and telepresence systems into our Broadcast facilities, but they SAY they will allow me to demo AND execute a “shoot out” against the INLET Spinnaker from our HD Digital Hub and “Digital Meet Me Point” Azzurro.  I did, in fact, invite “others” to participate, but companies such as Digital Rapids and Kulabyte were not interested nor would either permit a demo longer than a week, which is ridiculous.

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