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Tony Markel, CEO of the Markel Corp., a specialty insurance firm, tried videoconferencing once before, to save money during the last recession, from 1990 to 1991. But "there were delays in the audio. We were stepping on each other's lines," says Markel, who demands strong communication and teamwork among his brokers in far-flung cities like Richmond, Va.; Toronto; Paris; and Sydney, Australia. Soon his employees were back on airplanes, and the expensive video hookups started gathering dust. So after the terror attacks last September, when travel delays were eating up the time of his employees, Markel thought videoconferencing...
That's going to be hard to do. The herky-jerky video and out-of-synch audio of 1991 is gone--thanks to superior hardware and software and broadband Internet connections. The most advanced videoconferencing setups can transmit participants' images with a 3-D-hologram quality reminiscent of Captain Kirk beaming down from the Starship Enterprise. And at every level of sophistication, videoconferencing systems cost a fraction of what they did in 1991. This time, users and industry experts agree, the technology is here to stay. Even after the recession ends and terror fears abate, says Jaclyn Kostner, a consultant...
...Tandberg 8000s--the Rolls-Royce of videoconferencing--which come equipped with 50-in. plasma screens for high-definition video. Presenters can just plug in their laptop to display data on one of the screens. The Tandberg can simultaneously connect to as many as 10 video sites and four additional audio sites. And the equipment will significantly reduce Markel's travel costs--almost $5 million last year within North America alone...
Using equipment loaned by Harvard University Studios Electronic Studios Composition organization, DJ Dan Sedgwick ’03 sent the audio through an MP3 decoder and channeled the feed through an ethernet connection to the radio station’s transmitter. The show was then broadcast over the air with only a three-second delay...
...hold the viewer’s interest—which is too bad, as the video documents important influences in the Browns’ taste, such as the pueblo-style houses of Tuscon. An architecture student with some time on his hands could do worse than put together an audio component for the film...