No lack of cool at Demo@15

摘要

Demo is one of the few shows where you look at some of the products and say, "Wow, I can't wait to try that." Over the past 15 years the show has produced several "gotta-have" devices and software, and this year is no different. Here's a quick peek at what we'll yearn for during 2005: When corporate communications officials want to broadcast a live message from the CEO to the company, they usually have to hire a Webcasting company or full production company to produce such an event. Newtek says it wants to change that with its TriCaster box, which debuts at the Demo show. The TriCaster is a portable live production video switcher and Web streaming appliance. For $5,000, users will be able to produce a live event, including switching multiple cameras, graphics and pre-recorded material (known as B-roll footage), and stream the output to the Web in real time.