What is WebCast?

Our expertise allows for (live) audiovisual content to be shown on an Internet page, without visitors (‘viewers’) having to download the content first. KPN WebCast provides complete Internet broadcasting.

The following services can be used separately or combined:

· (live) registration
· encoding existing material
· infrastructure for live webcasts
· media hosting
· streaming
· reporting
· consultancy

WebCast (live) registration
WebCast live registration enables you to record and broadcast (live) events via your website. However, live broadcasting via the Internet is not necessary when time and interactivity play a less important role. In that case, offering short, fast and appealing video clips is more interesting. Guided by a professional ENG-team (Electronic News Gathering) images are recorded, edited and encoded. In addition to (live) broadcasting via the Internet you have a wide range of options, like:

PowerPoint® presentation
A live broadcast via the Internet can be combined with a PowerPoint® presentation. This presentation can be synchronized or navigated by viewers themselves. The same holds for the on-demand phase of broadcasts. Your presentation will come across more distinctly using PowerPoint® sheets.

Video chat
Live broadcasts can be combined with different types of interaction, among which video chatting. Viewers can submit questions via the Internet, which can subsequently be answered using words, gestures and text. WebCast uses different types of chatting. Many-to-many allows everyone to chat with each other and many-to-one allows viewers to ask only one person questions, creating an online interview. Finally there is one-to-one chatting, allowing two people to chat with each other.

Distribution via portals
The success of Internet broadcasts is partly determined by the number of viewers. SNT WebCast is linked to several labels like Planet.nl and MSN.nl, so that Internet broadcasts can be transmitted via these portals and a larger audience can be reached. SNT cannot guarantee that these portals will transmit all content, as they are editorially independent. Using additional distribution, webcasts can also be transmitted on the basis of commercial propositions in combination with announcements on websites of, for instance, het Financieele Dagblad, De FinanciëleTelegraaf and RTL-Z. Banners and buttons on these sites are used to inform Internet users about coming webcasts

WebCast Encoding
SNT WebCast can encode existing audiovisual material to Windows Media Player or Real format. Possible source formats are, among others, VHS, S-VHS, DV and Betacam.

WebCast Media hosting
The digital media files can be stored in one of the (shared) media servers of WebCast. For this you reserve a special amount of storage capacity based on a monthly fee.


WebCast streaming
Your wishes determine the number of simultaneous streams, which in turn determines how many viewers can watch the Internet broadcast simultaneously. The standard number of viewers for live transmissions is 1000. In case of media hosting, the number of simultaneous streams depends on how much disk space you book. Extending the number of simultaneous streams is possible and invoices are sent on a monthly basis.

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