What is Stream Server?

Stream Server is a professional live broadcasting application with enterprise-level features and functionality at a low price. The standalone application employs proprietary cooperative multicast technology, the core of Neokast’s business, to deliver substantial cost savings and scalability to online broadcasters. Neokast developed the software for the purpose of delivering the industry’s most secure, reliable and cost-effective solution for streaming live video content over the Internet.

Stream Server highlights:

• Software is easily downloaded and enables publishers to begin streaming right away
• No limitation on bandwidth or the number of viewers
• No built-in constraints on bit rates or video resolution
• Advanced viewer statistics and analytics available through online portal
• Real-time, continuous feedback on stream quality and viewer experience
• Automated error reporting to both the publisher and Neokast Customer Support

Stream Server enables businesses, website owners and bloggers to create 24/7 channels of live streaming video, broadcast special events, shows and concerts, and manage libraries of content to be streamed live over the Internet. Neokast provides an end-to-end solution and offers tiered bandwidth support packages. There are no upfront charges or costly long-term commitments.

Best of all, Neokast is currently offering a FREE 30-day trial of Stream Server, which users can sign up for entirely online. Simply sign up, download the software and start streaming! Content publishers that are interested in taking advantage of this offer can do so online by registering at neokast.com.

Email streamserver@neokast.com if you have any questions about Stream Server or the free trial.

A new website was released at www.neokast.com this week! Besides the sleeker design and a lot of reformatting there are some added features and navigation capabilities. Pay us a visit and you’ll find quite a few improvements such as the ability to continue browsing content while watching live streams.

Expect the website to continue to evolve over the coming weeks and months. We have some big designs for delivering the greatest live online broadcast experience on the planet, and as always we gladly welcome your suggestions and feedback at questions@neokast.com.

We are also excited to be fully supporting Firefox users now! In the next week we should have added Safari and Opera support making our Stream Player fully compatible with all of the major web browsers.

The next milestone in our development will be the release of a “lite” Stream Player with no .net requirement and an ultra fast installation time. This is also going to be released next week so be sure to update your current player when prompted. Looking further ahead, we are investing a lot of resources into delivering full Mac support and have made it a top priority of ours. 

Thanks for visiting and please stay tuned for many more developments to come!

Neokast is very excited to be at, and sponsor, the Silver Lake Film Festival 2007, Los Angeles’ leading independent-alternative film and arts event May 3-12 - and YOU are invited to the Neokast party!

There will be 18 great feature films – 9 documentaries and 9 narratives – competing for honors during the festival, including Best Picture, Best Documentary Feature, Best Narrative Feature, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay and Audience Favorite. Also, more than 100 short films will compete for Best Picture in both documentary and narrative categories and for an overall Audience Favorite Award. There will also be great names in attendence, a continuing MusicFest and parties galore thoughout the Festival to round out this outstanding event.

Sara Mora, President of Neokast Productions will be in attendence throughout the event and will be hosting a party with LiveCinemaNights.org and DivX. We encourage all those independents interested in filmmaking and looking for the best distribution to meet Sara or contact Sara@neokast.com and then check out Neokast at the Silver Lake Film Festival.

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CALLING ALL INDEPENDENT FILMAKERS!
Neokast is pleased to announce a partnership with independent film production company, SaraMora Productions.

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A good demonstration should both spark and answer many questions. We intend to do both. Many of your questions have not even surfaced because Neokast is a new technology. We are not the top down CDN that currently dominates the distribution of short video clips. We are also more sophisticated than even the distributed grid networks. Neither of these tech strategies provide the competitive advantages for content publishers and content viewers that Neokast does.

Lets look at the questions people are afraid to ask about online video distribution…

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Tom Evslin at Fractals of Change describes the current state of IPTV…

“As you know, there’s plenty of video on the Web. You can go to YouTube and see almost anything you want, most of it dreadful but some of it pretty good. You can also post your own videos on YouTube and you can vote on YouTube videos to try to help other people find the good ones. But this isn’t TV, at least as we’ve known it…

…But all of the above still isn’t TV as we know it and doesn’t replace it (yet):

• Most of the content we can get on network and cable TV is not available on the Internet.

• Most Internet content is low def, certainly not the high definition stuff that makes you run out and buy an expensive LCD screen.

• With the exception of baseball, you can’t get realtime major league sports or much else in real time (except webcams).”

Read it all.

I guess that makes my 99 invitations less sought after.

“Google co-founder Sergey Brin said the company plans to introduce subscription options for heavy users later this year; the company’s photo-hosting service charges $25 per year for 6.25GB of storage and $500 for 250GB.

“We can’t afford to give away everything for free,” Brin told AP.”

Hmmmm.

A very good reference list of the players in the video space has been put together according to nine video categories. Check it out.

Appropos the preceding posts, Merriman Curhan Ford, a SF investment house is holding a conference today - IP Video 2007: The Killer Application for Internet and Communications. To hear the audio podcasts of the various presenters such as Akamai, DivX, and ROO just register here.

I ran across talented Robin Dean, a “Stickam Entertainer,” from Chicago. He’s an example of the great talent looking for a medium.