NZVN September 2012

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SEPTEMBER 2012

Easy Streaming We’ve had a number of stories recently about streaming and web things in general – some for the serious and some for the mildly interested. Here’s one for novices wanting to get into it with a “painting by numbers” simplicity. To tell us what they had on offer, I met up with Alex Liu and Frances Chang from AVerMedia at Imaging Technology in Auckland. Ed: Alex, your company in Taiwan has many products and in the streaming area in particular, you’re making big advances?

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Frances: We have two models, one called the AVerCaster Combo, the other one called AVerCaster HD Duet. Both of them stream and are suitable for portable usage at less than 1kg each. Ed:

But they don’t have batteries?

Frances: No, you need a power adapter. How they differ is that the AVerCaster Combo supports live DVB-T streaming and has one AV input for streaming live video. The AVerCaster HD Duet is our secret weapon because it

Alex: We have put a lot of our resources into streaming technology for more than five years. Our engineers spent a long time studying this technology and then, about two years ago, we introduced our first generation product to the retail market and we’ve won a lot of positive feedback from our customers. Ed: So you must have seen a market that television companies were looking at other ways of improving their revenue, other than broadcasting, and you produced products to suit that. And I guess also you’ve seen smaller operators who understand that they can narrow-cast. Your streaming products would be useful for educational facilities?

Alex, Chon (holding the DarkCrystal HD Duo) and Frances.

Alex: Yes, of course, broadcasters are one of our target users but, just like you mentioned, recently we have found there is a big demand from education. They want local network streaming so we have refined our hardware and software to develop a total solution for the education market. Ed: Now Frances, in your product line you’ve got some nice little black boxes here, a medium silver box and a large black box? Let’s start with the little black boxes – what do these ones do?

comes with two HDMI and a component inputs. It allows for two live HD video contents streaming simultaneously. The best thing is that it comes with two Ethernet ports. One is for Internet so you can do the remote control and the other one is for local network streaming. Ed: And that’s all you need – basically your camera on a tripod, HDMI feed into this little box, a power supply for the box and an Internet connection and you’re away? Frances: Yes, as Alex mentioned, it’s designed for school announcements, corporate announcements and especially for live event broadcasting. It’s also good for

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