Yup, my company is offering a low cost (£850) video encoder to corporates so that they can take a tv feed of the world cup and stream it in MPEG-2 format (at around 4-5Mbps) multicast to any desktop that wants to receive it, or decode to a plasma (or other) screen via a stb or from a video card on a pc.
If you have a 1-2Mb broadband link, then as soon as 2 or 3 people start using the BBC feed then the companies internet download will start to die. So the option of streaming it on the network internally gets around this. It works a treat!
See http://www.theukoffice.com/news/WorldCup2006.php/
Cheers, Ian
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Yup, my company is offering a low cost (£850) video encoder to corporates so that they can take a tv feed of the world cup and stream it in MPEG-2 format (at around 4-5Mbps) multicast to any desktop that wants to receive it, or decode to a plasma (or other) screen via a stb or from a video card on a pc. If you have a 1-2Mb broadband link, then as soon as 2 or 3 people start using the BBC feed then the companies internet download will start to die. So the option of streaming it on the network internally gets around this. It works a treat! See http://www.theukoffice.com/news/WorldCup2006.php/ Cheers, Ian