News & Events
Below you will find articles detailing KenCast's latest news and upcoming events. Click on a story below to read more about our recent press coverage, trade show events, and other articles of interest. Inside each article below you'll see links to email or print the story, and buttons for social sharing. Feel free to spread the word!
Trade Shows
Satellite 2012
Booth #553
March 12-14, 2012
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Washington, DC
NAB 2012
Booth #SU430
April 16-19, 2011
Las Vegas Convention Center
Las Vegas, NV
- Satellite 2012
- NAB 2012
With the Super Bowl right behind us, a common question that might arise is how an event that big can be accessible through live streaming on TV, the Internet, and any device such as a tablet or smartphone, all across the world.
With video-friendly mobile devices proliferating and wireless and wire IP networks offering increasing speed, viewing good quality video in any place is increasingly feasible. For some content, a delay (latency) of even several seconds is not a concern. However, for other events, delay is something to minimize, even at significant cost – such as real-time news gathering in which the studio converses with a reporter in the field while live video goes to a national or even international audience.
Those users who prefer to watch all their entertainment online –from TV to sporting events to concerts –just got their wish as live streaming coverage provider KenCast will be broadcasting the 2012 Dan Finn Classic Basketball Charity Tournament live online on Jan. 14 using its Vazzt Service.
KenCast to Stream Live Online the 2012 Dan Finn Classic Basketball Charity Using Vazzt Services Featured
KenCast will provide live coverage online of the Dan Finn Classic 2012 Games on Jan. 14, 2012. The six basketball games will be broadcast live online for a single fee of $10.00 as a PPV event by this charity organization. Five of the games will feature some of the best high school basketball teams in the US and some of the best individual prospects.
Recently KenCast customer Chris Stasi, senior vice president Day to Day Operations and Technology Development for TVN, spoke of his experience working with KenCast, a provider of live streaming coverage solutions.
KenCast’s calling card in the digital world is its ability to help transform content delivery into comprehensive media, selling end to end, turn-key products for digital media needs.
When people refer to quality video today, they often cite HD 1080i. However, there is some confusion about what this means.
If you capture, broadcast and display raw video at 1080i, with no attempt at compression, you will be sending 1.493 Gbits/sec. If you assume you will need network overhead of about two percent, then you need bandwidth of 1.523 Gbits/second. And if you include the audio, you need still more.
Streaming video solutions provider KenCast has readied a new live video-on-the-move (VOTM) service called Vazzt VOTM service. It enables a user on the move, whether in a vehicle, in an aircraft, or on foot with a camera connected to a computer/laptop/netbook, to send live video streams and video files to a website that other viewers can access. According to KenCast, the new Vazzt VOTM service is a complete end-to-end solution.
Create a Global Business Streaming Live Video with a Single Program
Stamford, CT, May 10, 2011. KenCast introduced today, at the Streaming Media East 2011 Show a new version of its VazztCaster software program for live streaming coverage of events to viewers worldwide. VazztCaster now includes E-Commerce features – Pay-Per-View and paid Subscriptions. If you have a camcorder and a laptop with one or more carrier data services, you can build a global business. Register to become a Vazzt Producer (www.vazzt.com), download and install the VazztCaster program, at no cost, and you are ready to broadcast on the worldwide Internet to viewers anywhere, anytime, to almost any device. And Vazzt will help you sell your live video streams with PPV and Subscription services.
Developments in TV News coverage include a flood of new offerings over the last year in which Satellite News Gathering (SNG) trucks, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, are being supplemented by similar live video coverage capabilities provided by a camera, 3G/4G IP network aircards, and a computer, all in a backpack solution. These backpack solutions are much less expensive and lighter, weighing 25-40 pounds.