Technical Emmys Webcast Live From CES Using Abacast Hybrid P2P January 7th
Camas, Washington, January 2nd, 2008 - Abacast will be one of the sponsors of the official webcast for the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 2007 Emmy Awards for Technology and Engineering held opening day at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Monday, January 7, 2008.
The webcast, a featured event of CES, is powered by TV Worldwide, www.tvworldwide.com, who utilizes the Abacast Hybrid Peer-to-Peer technology to deliver content. The online audience will have the option to view the event through a 548Kbps of high quality video online.
The Technology and Engineering Awards honor development and innovation in broadcast technology and recognize companies, organizations and individuals for breakthroughs in technology that have a significant effect on television engineering. The awards are given to an individual, a company, or to a scientific or technical organization for developments and/or standardization involved in engineering technologies that either represent so extensive an improvement on existing methods or are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected the transmission, recording, or reception of television.
“Abacast is proud to be a part of this event,” states King, “as it points to the heart of Abacast’s mission of bringing new technology to broadcast entertainment and communication.” Abacast’s mission has always been to aid broadcasters in using new technology to create profitable business models online, making the business of streaming better. Abacast’s ability to reach large audiences with a high quality streams at a very low cost is the key.”
More information about the broadcast and a link to the stream can be found at http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/emmys/080107/.
About Abacast:
Abacast Inc. is a streaming technology and services provider founded in 2000. Abacast’s hybrid P2P technology takes the quality and control of central server (unicast) technology and seamlessly combines it with the scalability and efficiency of P2P. Abacast Hybrid P2P technology is the cornerstone of a complete service including: live and on-demand streaming, ad-injection and gateway ad serving, enterprise streaming, subscription systems, podcasting, high-end audio processing/streaming PC cards, audio and video encoding software, custom media player/web design and 24/7 premium service, education and support. For more information go to: www.abacast.com or info@abacast.com.
Editorial Contact:
Jason Vosburgh
Marketing Director
Abacast Inc.
jvosburgh@abacast.com
