ClickonDetroit streams home makeover live
Cory Bergman August 9th, 2007
WDIV’s ClickonDetroit.com is streaming a unique live event all day today. Detroit’s real estate market isn’t having the best of times, and “The Real Story on Real Estate” is a station initiative to demonstrate “how to dress your home to sell fast.” Users can watch the stream to see a home undergoing a makeover, and they can call or chat with “real estate experts” about mortgages, selling techniques and foreclosures.
And surprise, there’s no TV satellite or microwave truck at the house. The live feed is a powered by a miniDV camera, laptop (with Streambox) and a Sprint EVDO card at 350K upload speed. Sweet. (Thanks Greg for the heads up!)
8 Comments Add your own
1. thedetroitchannel | August 9th, 2007 at 11:05 am
that’s cool.
detroit has never been on the cutting edge web-wise, but clickondetroit does seem to try things the other stations in town shy from… they also have a quasi-vj… tim pamplin, or something like that… you never once see the guy’s face though. you gotta figure he shoots his own stuff, does the voice and files it.
give him a set-up like they’re using here and he could really get in some places undetected.
2. Jeremiah | August 9th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Have any of you checked out Ustream.tv?
3. Scoop Dogg | August 10th, 2007 at 7:16 am
The streambox encoder laptop will be shrunk to the size of of a Blackberry and will be a intergrated into the camera…late 2008!
Say good by to live trucks, say hello to live anywhere there is EVDO…which is every to 50 markets.
Anyone looking for a fleet of Frontlines??
4. Scoop Dogg | August 10th, 2007 at 7:16 am
The streambox encoder laptop will be shrunk to the size of of a Blackberry and will be a intergrated into the camera…late 2008!
Say good by to live trucks, say hello to live anywhere there is EVDO…which is every top 50 markets.
Anyone looking for a fleet of Frontlines??
5. WDIV News Operations Manager | August 10th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Nice comments on the use of our Streambox device and combo of our site with the over-the-air broadcast.
I would mention how easy and flexible the Streambox device is to use. Something not discussed here, is how we see the slingbox device, as an inexpensive alternative, fitting into the web when it comes to streaming live cameras.
And yes, whomever mentioned that ENG field cameras will be capable of store and forward down the road, understands that most of SONY’s new broadcast technology is IP-addressable, as an option.
As for my comments on our NIGHTCAM & Mr. Pamplin, he is one of the most talented photographers I’ve ever had the opportunity to work with. You could put him in the middle of Antartica with some toothpicks, and he’d be giving me a call telling me he’d figured out how to get a live signal out.
6. 5w30 | August 12th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Newman, is that you?
7. Visitor107 | September 21st, 2007 at 11:12 am
I have visited your site 061-times
8. Visitor577 | September 21st, 2007 at 11:13 am
I could not find this site in the Search Engines index
Leave a Comment
(Please keep URLs out of the comment body or the spam filter will block you.)Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed