Talk:Xing Technology

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Here is some hardly encyclopedic and rumor-like stuff I took out of the article: --Apoc2400 08:32, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Xing Moments

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  • KWBR radio (a Pismo Beach classic rock station that had a clear signal to Xing headquarters) agreeing to let their broadcasts be carried on the internet (not knowing what that really meant), and then being shocked when caller requests came in from Finland. Xing wanted to carry KOTR, but the signal was not clear enough at the Arroyo Grande headquarters.
  • Rich Fife programming a live (over a T1) broadcast reception system for the RealMagic MPEG playback board in a New York hotel room in 4 hours after 48 hours of no sleep.
  • Howard Gordon's bow legged BMW.
  • Live Audio on the Internet was demonstrated to the National Association of Broadcasters at their conference in 1996. The companies that coordinated and produced the live webcasts of KPIG Radio were butterfly.net, InterVox Communications and Xing Technologies.
  • After a live broadcast from a concert of then popular R&B band The Fugees one of the band members puked on the ATRANS (Xing's live audio encoding device) used at the concert, rendering it inoperable.

[edit] Notes

  • History of Internet Broadcasting is found in Internet Age Broadcaster published by the National Association of Broadcasters, volume 1. It was verified at the time of publication by Xing Technology, Microsoft and RealNetworks. (http://www.nab.org) The book was written by Peggy Miles and Dean Sakai.
  • Howard Gordon later went on to found Surveyor Corp, which closed it's doors in the early 00's.
  • Early Xing Streamworks software can still be downloaded on cnet.com and other download sites to verify first use. Prior to Xing Technologies - the first computer sent live audio was on the Multicast - MBone Network. (need to verify) Xing Streamworks used the world wide web and was accessible to anyone with a computer and audio software in the mid 90's. Xing Technologies sent the first live broadcasters over the Internet, not RealNetworks as their press materials frequently mention. RealNetworks sent the first live audio sports game over the Internet at a later date.
  • David Levine can be reached at butterfly.net still today.

Peggy Miles can be reached at intervox.com still today. Howard Gordon can be reached at Surveyor Corp.

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