How Today went live from the ends of the Earth
Cory Bergman November 6th, 2007
Since satellite transmissions aren’t going to work from Antarctica and the North Pole, NBC used a laptop running Qvidium to send the live feeds over IP lines. More here in this blog post, written last week. (Thanks, Steve!)
5 Comments Add your own
1. Jeff | November 7th, 2007 at 4:58 am
Am I the only one who wondered how much carbon they burned getting to the ends of the earth?
2. Anonymous | November 7th, 2007 at 7:11 am
Butb the awareness they created and “showing us” what’s going on paid off…why so cynical?
3. Barry | November 7th, 2007 at 7:19 am
Isn’t that the same technology as Slingbox?
4. Anders | November 7th, 2007 at 9:36 am
TV 2 Norway did a live interview with the Norwegian Queen from Antartica in 2005 using single camera attached to a laptop with Quicklink (www.quicklink.tv) encoding software. I think they either used a BGAN satphone or the satellite internet connection of the Norwegian Antartica base to transmit the ip-signal
5. Brett Jungbluth | November 19th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
I’m sure a satellite was used somewhere along the way, Is there a land line to Antarctica?
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