This is just a hypothetical thread really, I'm not announcing anything but it's an idea that some of us are seriously looking into since it seems quite doable. I'm just looking for opinions from con-goer types over the idea. Agian, not announcing anything for any convention! Ya know, people get in trouble forleaking things that are in the 'what if' catagory and such and this isn't even there yet, this is in the 'Hey, would this work without causing a fire?' area still.
We were toying quite seriously of using video over IP for CCTV purposes at a convention. Public TVs set up reciving live MPEG-2/Dolby Digital video from the main events room across the hotel LAN. CCTV at a con though, isn't anything very new.
Additionally to that, we're looking at doing wifi hotspots where lower quality (WMV2/MP3) streaming video can be accessed from the LAN over WIFI via a local index page telling peopel which IP/Ports to connect Windows Media Player (or what ever they use) so in many places at the convention someone can whip out their laptop and recive live video of concerts, guests, big panels, contests (Including the AMV showing) and masquerade live or if it's after hours for the room. If the room is not active, time shifted feeds of previous events can be sent and maybe (BIG MAYBE) Video On Demand of previous events in the day.
The same feeds could also be available in the hotel rooms via their eithernet connections, but that would depend somewhat on how the hotel LAN is set up.
So I'm just looking for opinions on this idea and if people think it'd be worthwhile.





