Buy/Rent Video Streaming Appliance

[petereit]

We have a two-day conference coming up that we'd like to video stream. We're not currently video streaming, but it's definitely in our future.

For the purposes of this conference, I thought the quickest/easiest solution would be to rent a video streaming appliance like the ViewCast Niagara GoStream or a Digital Rapids Touchstream. Anyone know where I could rent one? (South Carolina)

Anyone have any other devices they would recommend? We'll be feeding it 720p HD-SDI (could feed it component HD if necessary). We're on the fastest cable internet package Time Warner offers. My initial thought was to send the feed to Livestream for propagation.

All thoughts welcome!!

[petereit]

Anyone have any experience with the Livestream Broadcaster? For $495, this could be a permanent solution.

[rjwalker]

Originally Posted by petereit

Anyone have any experience with the Livestream Broadcaster? For $495, this could be a permanent solution.

Interesting service - but where is the $495 option? I only see 2 services, one for $45 per month, and the other which "Starts at $269 per month."

[petereit]

$495 is for the device.

[petereit]

By the way, The Livestream Broadcaster is working BRILLIANTLY for us!! Couldn't be easier -- plug it in, enter credentials for our Livestream account, hit go -- we're live-streaming!

Check out http://new.livestream.com/fwc/spiritconf/videos/2566479 for the Livestream recorded version of last-night's broadcast. Even though we had some confusion back at the sound board in the video studio, the live-streaming itself went flawlessly.

We're streaming another service tonight at 7:00 eastern if you want to check it out. http://new.livestream.com/fwc/spiritconf