APRIL 2014
Stream-Power at Protel We are here at Protel Auckland for a demonstration of Livestream with Mark Hall from Corsair Solutions. I spoke with Mark after a full-on hour demonstration. Mark also did the same demonstration at Protel’s Wellington Office.
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Mark: It streams to www.livestream.com Now depending on the account you have, even if you have a free account, you can then share that feed and someone can watch it on a smart TV, say through a Roku or their iPad or their Android or their computer.
Ed: Mark, I have to say that my brain has been rather taxed today listening to all this new technology. This is an area that I’ve avoided as much as possible, all this internet stuff, but well, you’ve got to learn these things and I must say I’ve learnt an awful lot today. Now just give us a very simple view of the Livestream products. My understanding is that you’ve got two paths here. The first one is a single camera streaming solution so run us through that first? Mark: Our single camera solution would be the Livestream Broadcast, which is a complete HD live video streaming device without the need for a PC. Ed: This is just a little red box, runs on three AA batteries or an external power and it takes an HDMI feed in?
Mark with the Livestream control system.
Mark: That’s right, and it delivers via the Ethernet, on a WiFi network or USB 3G/4G modem.
Ed: So livestream.com is a server that is run by Livestream so, if you take the free account, all you’re paying for is your own Telco provider for the data that you’re uploading to it, then what happens?
Ed: So you’ve got all of those options and that then streams that output from your camera to where?
Mark: That’s correct … livestream.com is a website and it has the content delivery network behind