Streaming Media
Streaming Media in Web Design Defined
(v.)(1) To use the Internet to broadcast live or delayed audio and/or video transmissions, much like traditional television and radio broadcasts. For example, a university may offer on-line courses in which the instructor Webcasts a pre-recorded or live lecture, or an enterprise may Webcast a press conference in lieu of or in addition to a conference call. Users typically must have the appropriate multimedia application in order to view a Webcast.
(2) To use push technology, to send Web-based information to an Internet user.
(n.) The data transmission that results from one of the above methods.
Netcast is another name for Webcast.
Many news and sports sites on the internet now offer videos of current news and sporting events. Soon the time will come that companies will routinely offer live video feeds of meetings so that employees around the world can be "in the office" while "on the road".
Streaming Media.com offers an abundance of information from newsletters to industry news all the way to explaining what streaming media is. Their Research Center has listings of hardware, software and many other forms of information. The sections on webcasting and wireless should be very useful to anyone looking into this form of a career.
Webcast Pilot is a wonderful source for International Radio and International TV feeds that you can access right from your own home. Excellent way to people to keep informed when their cable TV goes out.
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