Post by JD on Sept 17, 2004 13:45:00 GMT
17 September 2004
Who TV
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You may have noticed over the past couple of weeks a new button on the home page leading to 'Who TV'. Although it may sound just a little pretentious we do now have the technology to provide broadcasting facilities and programming for what, in essence, is our very own TV station. In conjunction with Astream, we've built a system enabling us to provide 24/7 Internet programming using Windows Media Player as the broadcasting platform.
Those of you that notice these things will know that throughout the year we've been test driving the system, providing mainly looped content although we have also thrown in some pre-announced (and at other times totally spontaneous) gems such as a full Who rehearsal and a couple of showcases by Rachel Fuller. As of next week though its use will be more varied. We've developed three areas to the 'studio' which allow us to broadcast live performances from inside and outside the building, an area that lets us prepare and broadcast pre recorded and / or commercially available material and a 'Vox Box' where people can just go and sit in front of a camera and say whatever they feel, maybe even crack a few jokes!
This is a serious venture for us but as you'd expect we're taking a fairly 'guerrilla' attitude to it. Much of the live and Vox Box material with be unscheduled and unscripted - some will be recorded and looped and others will be real one-off's - shown only the one time. Some other events will be publicised in advance. Our credo has always been to provide free exciting and exclusive content without advertising and pop up's. We will continue with this philosophy whenever we can. However, for BIG events, of which a few are planned over the next year, there may well be a need to charge - either with a one off payment or by subscription - to view. At present we only have limited bandwidth, providing access to a certain number of viewers, and for big events we would need to increase that to allow more access. In order to do that and to cover the extra costs we may need to make these 'pay to view' events. The feedback we've had about the site is that the free content we provide is often far superior than other subscription based sites so if we do charge for an event you know it will be really special.
Even though it's still a new venture we're continuing to develop the technology and are even thinking about taking the studio on the road should the band tour again to bring you live shows from around the world.
The station will allow access to Pete Townshend, The Who, Eel Pie and it's other artists like never before. It's an exciting time for us and we hope that you enjoy what we're trying to do as much as we are in planning it.
Matt
Sounds like we may be in for something good. JD
Who TV
Back to the news page
You may have noticed over the past couple of weeks a new button on the home page leading to 'Who TV'. Although it may sound just a little pretentious we do now have the technology to provide broadcasting facilities and programming for what, in essence, is our very own TV station. In conjunction with Astream, we've built a system enabling us to provide 24/7 Internet programming using Windows Media Player as the broadcasting platform.
Those of you that notice these things will know that throughout the year we've been test driving the system, providing mainly looped content although we have also thrown in some pre-announced (and at other times totally spontaneous) gems such as a full Who rehearsal and a couple of showcases by Rachel Fuller. As of next week though its use will be more varied. We've developed three areas to the 'studio' which allow us to broadcast live performances from inside and outside the building, an area that lets us prepare and broadcast pre recorded and / or commercially available material and a 'Vox Box' where people can just go and sit in front of a camera and say whatever they feel, maybe even crack a few jokes!
This is a serious venture for us but as you'd expect we're taking a fairly 'guerrilla' attitude to it. Much of the live and Vox Box material with be unscheduled and unscripted - some will be recorded and looped and others will be real one-off's - shown only the one time. Some other events will be publicised in advance. Our credo has always been to provide free exciting and exclusive content without advertising and pop up's. We will continue with this philosophy whenever we can. However, for BIG events, of which a few are planned over the next year, there may well be a need to charge - either with a one off payment or by subscription - to view. At present we only have limited bandwidth, providing access to a certain number of viewers, and for big events we would need to increase that to allow more access. In order to do that and to cover the extra costs we may need to make these 'pay to view' events. The feedback we've had about the site is that the free content we provide is often far superior than other subscription based sites so if we do charge for an event you know it will be really special.
Even though it's still a new venture we're continuing to develop the technology and are even thinking about taking the studio on the road should the band tour again to bring you live shows from around the world.
The station will allow access to Pete Townshend, The Who, Eel Pie and it's other artists like never before. It's an exciting time for us and we hope that you enjoy what we're trying to do as much as we are in planning it.
Matt
Sounds like we may be in for something good. JD