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Webcast from my Website?

Oct 4, 2007 10:05PM PDT

I am not sure this is the correct place to post this but I am at a loss looking at the forums to find one that is exact for this topic.

I watched a webcast from a local sports memrobilia store the other day in my town and thought this could be a great idea for me. I called him and basically he told me it is very expensive and it costs about $1 - $2 per viewer.

I wrote to another forum and they told me to check with my hosting service. Calling them I found that I could not do it using a shared host and I would have to switch to a virtual or dedicated host and the minimum would be $30/month for 500GB transfer rate.

What I do not understand is why is the any different than having a piece of video on your site that 1000 people watch? 1000 people are a 1000 people, no? What is the difference if it is live of pre-recorded?

I just want to have a 10-15 show once a week or so to start. I have all the video equipment and just need to understand how to project it on my site and some help with getting it on the website and the difference between live and pre-recorded viewing bandwith?

I have spent hours googling and comining up with nothing.

Anyway any help appreciated.

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Which is why many just...
Oct 5, 2007 12:56AM PDT

Toss their show on Youtube and embed that on their site.

Sorry, I won't duplicate how to do that.

Bob

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Oct 20, 2007 8:25AM PDT

I agree, You Tube would be the way to go. Windows Media streaming and others do have limitations of concurrent connections. Partly also the throttling of the speeds available. Companies like TBN have multiple servers to provide streaming.