Inside the COFDM Tech and Wireless Systems Delivering Olympic Broadcasting Special Camera Angles Those athlete’s-eye shots alongside a downhill skier come from half-pound drones at 80 mph, and the hard part is not the flying – it is pushing HD video off a fast aircraft through crowded airwaves. Broadcast crews use COFDM, a radio method that splits one video feed … Read More
The First Live Stream on the Internet: Severe Tire Damage, 1993
The Forgotten Band that Pioneered Internet Live Streaming Live streaming feels like a recent invention, but the first one ran on June 24, 1993, when a garage band named Severe Tire Damage sent a live set out over the early internet as both audio and video. MBone made it possible, letting one feed reach many viewers at once instead of … Read More