Letter Never Sent Tell me when to go.

Here are some of the channels I watched in Nullsoft Streaming Video:

1. Cesko’s Room: A webcam, music, and a mic brought to you by some guy in Italy. He seemed to be working at his computer but would occasionally look into the camera and start chair dancing to the eight or so viewers watching.
2. A video stream comprised solely of BattleField1942 videos. Mind you these are videos taken in-game usually involving stunts with jeeps, tanks, and planes with a group of players as the stuntmen. There are also people producing movies using the setting, props, and models of the game as the visual pallette of a particular story or plotline with a soundtrack, sound effects, and voice acting edited into it. This is really interesting to me since it puts filmmaking in the hands of almost anyone. Not surprisingly, most of these films deal with the subject of war. By the way, this game is awesome.
3. Another channel showed commercials from the 50’s. That got old fast. Another played educational films from the same time period dealing with issues like ‘acting your age’. They also had some Dragnet episodes on the same channel.
4. There are lots of streams for music videos, many are techno while some are Korean and Japanese pop. XRM is probably my favorite of this bunch probably because he has it set up where the chat from the XRM irc channel appears on the screen using the subtitle function so that while you’re watching a music video someone will chime in about how hot someone looks in the video or making an incredulous remark about how old Paul Oakenfold is.
5. There are a few live TV feeds as well, people using their TV tuner cards to broadcast to the internet. Live Headline News, Pakistani TV, Polish TV. One guy was just rebroadcasting his local NBC affiliate from San Francisco.

The best part about all of this is that there are basically no commercials and it is international in aspect. Anyone in the world can broadcast their video this way which could ultimately democratize video broadcasting.

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