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Northwestern is one of the first schools in the country to take advantage of “multicasting technology,” a process that digitizes cable programming and broadcasts it to students’ computers through the school’s network, according to the University’s television website. Unlike the costly process of running cable wires through all the buildings, the cost to multicast each channel is only around $15,000, according to Morteza Rahimi, Northwestern’s vice president and chief technology officer for information technology, as reported by the Brown Daily Herald...
Osterberg will make the final decision one HRTV's multicast future since the student group uses College Web space...
...HRTV's goal is still to have our multicast channel up and running by April," he wrote in an e-mail message...
...HDTV came as little surprise to many industry watchers. "The great myth here is that this was all about HDTV," says Hundt. "HDTV has been a fraud by the broadcasters all these years." Indeed, broadcasters claim that in the frequency consumed by a single HDTV transmission, they can "multicast" several channels of lower-grade digital pictures, which, to the average couch potato, are indistinguishable from the real thing. "The technology is getting so good that we can contemplate multiple channels without any difference in picture quality that the consumer is going to see," Padden told TIME. The other networks...
...services on the Internet. The Rolling Stones, for example, maintain a World Wide Web site with URL http://www.stones.com. The site features graphics and sounds from the band as well as tour merchandise. Earlier in November, 25 minutes of Stones concert footage was transmitted live over the Internet Multicast Backbone (MBONE), a net-wide experiment in real-time audiovisual broadcasting. This was the first such broadcast by a major rock...