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Webcasts are usually media distributed over the internet; the data can be live or in most cases pre recorded but broadcast at a particular time to a large audience. A webcast can also mean a broadcast where media can be heard and seen by many all at the same time. Radio and TV stations rule the roost in webcasting but recent significant changes in broadband width and speedier internet have resulted in millions of home computer users webcasting anything from birthday parties to weddings to just about everything.
Webcasts like their not so distant cousin streaming videos are easy to achieve with the right software and additional hardware. Brian Raila and James Paschetto representatives of the GTE Laboratories were the first to demonstrate this phenomenal technology at the InterTainment 89 conference held in New York City way back in 1989. Unfortunately it was then proved expensive and most bandwidths could not support the exchange of extensive media correctly.
Things have changed a lot since then and today everyone is smitten by the bug to webcast owing to the ease of use and improved internet connections. Webcasts are used extensively in the fields of medicine, education and training, travel and tourism as well as business and industry to name just a few. There are sites on the internet that broadcast or webcast a myriad range of media beginning from home videos to cooking to popular song videos. Here again the types and uses are as varied as the subject itself.
Likewise webcasts do not resemble video conferencing as this procedure involves a many to many module, while webcasts are generally one to many in their use and telecast. Also most webcasts are pre-recorded media types that are distributed more on demand than as a routine or on schedule.
It is easy to webcast media with the help of a camcorder to record specific videos that can be uploaded to the computer either on the hard disk or straight online on the internet to be finally telecast to a number of people all at the same time. Apart from some typically used hardware components webcasts also require supporting software to make a clean job of it.
Often regular home video webcasts are in regional or native languages that are difficult to understand for most people; however they can now be translated or subtitled using Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) for frequent broadcasts. Similarly there is a lot of software available that enables you to edit your webcasts to make them look and sound more professional and aesthetically pleasing to viewers.
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