Webcast

A webcast is, however, designed according to the purpose similar to a radio or television program for the medium of the Internet and - in the case of live webcasts - by the possibility of interaction of a radio or television transmission also predicted.

History

The term shall be composed Web ( World Wide Web) and broadcast together ( English for broadcast, broadcasting). The transmitted program is partially live content, but the streams are also in retrospect mostly still as records available ( on-demand ). Originally webcasts were simply over the internet streamed broadcasts. Meanwhile, however, results in a duplication of video conferencing over the Internet, as often is the audience given the opportunity to ask questions during transmission - this characteristic of the webcast is now referred to as the webinar. A webcast is still thought of in contrast to video conferencing as a " one-to - Multiple " transmission.

Content

The nature of the content of the webcast will be rather Teaching or research as an entertaining nature. Likewise, the number of viewers per webcast rather low, since the content of the most responsive special interests. For example, courses are spread through universities or information programs for developers by software manufacturer webcasts. Precision is defined as such as webcasts webinars, a portmanteau slurred from "Web" and "Seminar" ( cf. Webcast.de ). One example is the U.S. video news channel The Real News Network.

As exceptions to the above characterizations, there are also the broadcasting of major events such as the Live 8 concerts, for which the provider AOL reported 170,000 spectators.