Talk:Webcast
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The first online video distribution (albeit on a proprietary IP network to fund managers worldwide) of an investor relations event took place in 1996 in London. It was conducted by a division of the Financial Times newspaper, called Veritas. The management team went off to set up their own business, RAW Communications, which pioneered the use fo video for investor relations on public companies. RAW was sold to Thomson Financial in 2006.
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Why does netcast redirect to this page? Perhaps Leo Laporte's proposition for renaming podcast should have its own page: http://www.twit.tv/2006/09/22/a_cast_by_any_other_name --24.20.181.127 05:36, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
I have changed the opening sentence from:
"A webcast is similar in intent to a broadcast television program, however webcasts are not actually broadcast as this would be hideously inefficient from an engineering perspective."
To:
"A webcast is similar in intent to a broadcast television program but designed for internet transmission."
Basically, not to include the word 'internet' at the outset seemed a grave failing to me. --bodnotbod 13:41, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] functions of webcasting
[edit] What is webcasting ?
The word webcast is derived from "web" and "broadcast". Its use has varied over the past decade by different types of organisation and as the nature of the medium came into public use.
The generally accepted use of webcast is the "transmission of linear audio or video content" (like "normal" radio and TV). Another good way of referring to it is "internet broadcasting" since the internet is the carrier and it is analogous to broadcast.
The concept of linear here means "non-interactive" (ie. you cannot fast forward or rewind). The advent of time shifting viewing oon TV has led to a bit of a collision or terminology and licensing in the media world.
If a radio/TV station webcasts its broadcast transmission, this is referred to as a "simulcast".
Internet-only radio/TV stations are linear shows transmitted in real-time.
Webcast stations as such are totally dependent on streaming media technology, and as the market scales, will be dependent on multicast technology.
It is distinct from podcast, which is 'just' a downloadable file.
So to recap, the idea of a webcast falls into the ecosystem that contains;
Terrestrial Broadcasting
Digital Broadcasting
Cable Broadcasting
Satellite Broadcasting
--Gavinstarks 01:26, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Capitalization of the term
Webcast should be capitalized when it is refering to transmissions made specifically over the Internet itself. This is consistent with the appearance of the term on Webopedia as well as logically inferred given the capitalization of the proper-noun, Web, itself (in the case of the World Wide Web).
--SWCastNetwork 14:10, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
- The term "webcast" is not a proper noun, and therefore it should not be capitalized. There is a difference between "the Web" and a "webcast." BJ Nemeth 21:37, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
