Wednesday, May 9, 2007

A New Way To Do TV Live Shots

Something Jim Rome touts on his nationally-syndicated sports talk show may end up being the successor to TV live shots produced with expensive satellite and electronic news gathering (ENG) trucks.

The "Slingbox" allows you to watch TV remotely using a laptop or smart phone. But now, a San Francisco TV station is using the $300 device to deliver live news, traffic and weather updates wirelessly back to its studio.

According to a story on Cnet.com, a smaller camera, a Slingbox and a data card (combined approximate cost: $900) could potentially change the way broadcast TV news does business.

(Thanks to Mike James of Newsblues.com for first bringing attention to this story.)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Over-under of the number of years before one of the Omaha stations latch on to this technology...

17

Smart money is piling up in the "over" category...

Anonymous said...

DON'T TELL KPTM - THEY'LL BE TRYING THAT A.S.A.F.P.

Anonymous said...

Hopefully it have better resolution and clarity then those video phones stations such as CNN, FOX News, Weather Channel etc use to broadcast live events.