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01/10/2007 - Cherokee County School District Simplifies Distance-Learning Access
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PLANO, Texas — Jan. 10, 2007 — ViewCast Corporation (OTCBB: VCST - News), a leading global provider of high-quality audio and video communication products, today announced that South Carolina's Cherokee County School District is using the ViewCast Niagara GoStream portable streaming media encoder to support distance-learning courses at Gaffney High School and Blacksburg High School. The GoStream system captures and encodes broadcasts of distance-learning courses, which are then made available to students unable to attend those classes in person.
"ViewCast's GoStream provides a great deal of flexibility at an attractive price point," said Trad Robinson of Cherokee County School District Information Management Services. "While the encoder has performed very well for us as part of the distance-learning program, we feel we haven't yet tapped into its full potential. With its ease of use and high portability, GoStream opens the door to a variety of new teaching opportunities. We envision many additional ways in which it can benefit our students and teachers in the future."
ViewCast's EASE (Encode, Access, Setup, Export) menus provide basic encode/setup from the GoStream's front-panel. The three EZStream® buttons then make it easy for the school district's non-technical and technical users to select from pre-defined encoding profiles. GoStream creates live streams in industry-standard Windows Media®, RealVideo®, and Flash® formats and saves encoded content in these same formats to local storage at Gaffney High. Students can access and view encoded files at their convenience and, in the future, will have the option of borrowing an iPod® and watching the selected class on the mobile device while at home.
Full portability and mobility can be achieved with wireless and battery options. These options allow the GoStream system to be used anywhere there is a wireless network. This portability will enable the school district to move the GoStream easily from location to location for a variety of content capture purposes. Among the plans for future use at Cherokee County School District is the capture and encoding of professional development courses for the district's teachers.
In addition to user-friendly encoding controls, the GoStream front panel features an iPod®/Zen™ mobile video device dock for additional storage and replay capabilities. Two USB ports and two network ports (one Gbit and one 10/100 Mbit Ethernet) allow for easy installation of software upgrades and encoding profiles and for transfer of archive files. The system is equipped with management software and can be used without external equipment such as a keyboard, mouse, or monitor. The encoder accepts composite and S-video inputs, as well as unbalanced and balanced stereo.
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