Abacast Sponsors Live Streaming for the 34th Annual Emmy Awards for Creative Arts & Entertainment
Hollywood, CA . (June 14th, 2007) -- Abacast will be sponsoring a high quality (548Kbps) stream for the Official Live Webcast of the 34th Annual Daytime Creative Arts and Entertainment Emmy Awards. The stream, which is twice the normal bitrate, will be used to distribute the webcast provided by TVWorlwide.
The show will honor four new awards for Broadband Entertainment content. The Academy will recognize the best in Drama, Comedy, Children's programming and Variety distributed via broadband and portable media players. These particular awards will be presented along with the many others.
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will also be presenting its Lifetime Acheivement Award to James Lipton, creator, executive-producer, writer and host of the 12-time Emmy-nominated Bravo series, "Inside the Actors Studio."
Users will be able to view this live webcast through a sponsored stream by Abacast Inc. The sponsored stream will be distributed through the Abacast patented hybrid peer-to-peer network. Abacast's patented technology takes the security, quality, and control from central server (unicast) technology and combines that with the redundancy, scalability and efficiency of peer-to-peer technology. This Distributed Streaming Network Technology not only reduces live or one-to-many audio and video streaming costs by up to 98% but also provides end-to-end quality of service monitoring and a measurable improvement in the end-users experience.
The live webcast will be featured on www.tvmainstream.com, a TV Worldwide Internet TV Channel.
Abacast Inc is a streaming technology and services provider founded in 2000 by former broadcasters, technologists and station owners who saw the future of radio and television coming online. Abacast Live Distributed Streaming Technology is the cornerstone of a complete service offering that includes live and on-demand streaming of all major formats, gateway and interstitial ad serving, easy and efficient enterprise streaming, complete subscription systems, podcasting, viideo encoding software, custom media player/web design and 24/7 premium service, education and support. Find out more at www.abacast.com or info@abacast.com.