On The Sharp End Of The Stream

Those razor Sharp executives must have obviously got themselves an advance copy of the Arbitron report, as they have teamed up with ITVnet, Inc. the "leading provider of self-service Webcasting solutions," to offer a free webcasting service for users of Sharp's new Internet ViewCam.

"We are very excited about the partnership between ITVnet and Sharp," said Anthony Bay, general manager, Streaming Media Division at Microsoft. "The combination of digital video cameras and innovative streaming media services delivers powerful tools into the hands of millions of consumers." Why was a Microsoft commenting on this? Well, this little puppy will be using Microsoft's Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) for playback on Windows Media Player.

The partnership will "make it easy for Sharp Internet ViewCam users to shoot, publish and share their video on the Web. Businesses and individuals who create digital videos using the Sharp Internet ViewCam, can now post it on the ITVnet Web site for immediate viewing by friends, family and colleagues around the world." Fantastic, more home videos to clog up the net ... but I suppose it was inevitable.

Sharp's Internet ViewCam, we are told is "the world's first digital camcorder to employ MPEG-4 data compression, which is designed specifically for video delivery over the Internet. *And* the new VN-EZ1 model, the smallest ViewCam *ever*, weighing only 5.5 ounces. This little fun kit will enables you to shoot up to 60 minutes of video with sound, save it to a removable 32MB SmartMedia(TM) [Sony's "Memory Sticks" sound better though] storage card, and quickly and easily transfer video files to their PCs and onto the Internet. Better chuck out those DigiBeta's then.

If you fancy sharing all your home videos with the rest of the world [I know I have some that a few people would be interested seeing], then you'll need to go ITVnet's "personal online publishing service" and upload away. If I show you mine, will you show me yours?

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