Paying to have your event webcast

[Scott L.]

Originally Posted by AV_guy007

As someone who has pushed webcasts up to NASA's servers its not the setup at the event that is very costly complicated. You need to consider what is serving the content. Do you have a powerful enough server with a fast enough connection? If not make sure to consider the costs of that..

Personally I would not pay for webcasting. I think a better idea would be to talk to people in the community who will be at events and get a network of people that can push a stream to your server, and share the content that way. there is no reason to pay for a crew to travel when there are already people there. Also don't forget you need a good Internet connection at the venue which usually means talking to the event planners far in advance.

we currently can't afford a faster Internet connection(DSL currently), but we are looking into faster options such as a T-1(~$350/month) If we could afford this every month it would allow us more freedom in what events we would be able to webcast, but this wouldn't guarantee that we would be able to archive 100% of the event and produce complete event DVDs, as we would be at the mercy of the person sending us the feed.
But this option would allow us to charge a lower rate to host the webcast.