Virtual Community Broadcasting

Imagine broadcasting to a virtual online community.

Second Life is a online virtual community that allows people to create online persona's and visual representations called avtars. People can also create buildings, villages, cities and even islands.

Second Life has added the ability to broadcast or stream audio / video to within their online world.
streaming media
How do I stream video of Second Life?
Help:Streaming Audio
Streaming Video
Second Life Now With Streaming Video
Community: Music

Several live concerts have been broadcast and the BBC has even done a live broadcast event from Second Life. BBC to broadcast in 'Second Life'

Origins Of Television

Television first appeared as a mechanical apparatus, that consisted of a spinning disk and photo-electric vacum tubes.

The video "signal" was taken from a standard radio receiver and the audio "signal" was taken from a separate radio receiver.

The video quality was very poor due to the mechanical process involved.

The world's earliest television recordings


Pioneers and developers of Mechanical Television

Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

John Logie Baird

Charles Francis Jenkins


Additional Information

Mechanical television

Early television stations

Early / Mechanical Television Systems

Principals of mechanical television explained

Russian booklet on building your own mechanical television set

Video On The Internet

Interesting factoids from the world of net video.

Internet video on demand services see sharp increase in France

Over one third of Japanese internet users have visited YouTube

YouTube nation: Video sharing changes the way people learn about the world, and each other

Internet video audience will top 157 million by 2010

Net Video Plays A Part In Global Elections

Candidates are no longer limited to spreading their political message on radio / television or print media.

YouTube provides battleground for Croatian politics

Tokyo metropolitan election management committee to YouTube: delete candidate videos

The 2008 candidates are running 'e-lection' campaigns

Regulators are keeping a close eye on the internet as it is increasingly used as a campaigning political tool.

Party political broadcasts do not have to be boring…..

More Media Outlets Using Social Video Hosting Sites To Distribute Content

These are a few of the large media organizations are making use of Google Video and YouTube as a means of enhancing their ability to distribute multimedia content through the Internet.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC )
video.google.ca/ca/en/cbc.html

The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC )
www.youtube.com/BBC

The Armed Forces Radio and Television Service ( AFRTS )
www.youtube.com/AFNOkinawa
www.youtube.com/afnkorea

Video Playlist Updated

We have added more content to the Scenic Radio video playlist. We now have 206 hours of video to watch.

You can look at the video playlist here : www.scenicradio.com/playlist.htm

Venezualan TV Station Using YouTube

The power of YouTube, Google Video and Internet video keeps getting stronger.

The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, refused to re-new a broadcast license for a popular national TV station that he accused of being "anti-government".
Chavez closes opposition TV station; thousands protest.

The banned TV station is now using YouTube to "Broadcast" news reports and stories .
Banned Venezuelan TV Stations Keeps Broadcasting On YouTube