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Live Earth will be streamed live using Windows Media
By Mack Male | July 2, 2007 at 1:39 pm
We’re less than five days away from one of the biggest musical events in history - Live Earth. Here’s a description of the event, spearheaded by Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore:
Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.
If you can’t attend one of the concerts in person, don’t worry. In addition to being broadcast on television and satellite radio, the concerts will be streamed online at MSN. About an hour ago a press release was issued that sheds some light on the technology behind the streaming. Incited Media has been contracted to provide the streams:
Incited’s team of roughly 80 technicians will be streaming nine live feeds (eight stages plus a world feed) to liveearth.msn.com. Incited will have 7 EVS systems editing individual songs and 27 servers in a VOD encoding “farm” going at all times as well as 24 live encoders for the Windows Media and QuickTime streams.
I find it hard to believe that MSN would feature QuickTime streams on the site, but you never know. They have a nice Zune logo on the site, as well as some big ads! In any case, you’ll be able to watch Live Earth online using Windows Media.
I’ll be watching!
Tags: Events, live earth, msn, Streaming, windows media, Zune
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