Ya live long enough, and you start to see evidence of the (mostly) subtle and unrelenting march of change. Within science and technology that march is double-time. And yet, some once-revolutionary/now-aged technologies are hard to upend. Why do we still have FAXes? Printed books? Gasoline...
[...and by "SIP"...I'm not referring to alcoholic beverages] See?...this is what I love about writing a blog AND being in such a helpful community of freelance voice-actors! Read on: Back in July of last year, I wrote another in a long line of articles that generally contribute the the notion...
Everyone knows there's ONE GUY who is the master of all that is ISDN in the United States. It's Dave Immer at Digifon.com He makes it his business to know, and he's helped countless voice-actors jump the hurdles TeleComs put in our way to get the paired copper wires (this author included). It's...
Vodafone -- a global telephony, wireless, and VOIP provider, esp. in Europe, is pulling the plug on its ISDN service in Netherlands. Here's the announcement from the Wireless Federation. According to Vietnam-era dominos theory logic: if the Netherlands falls to the ISDN axe, can Estonia and...
As voice talent, we see a simplistic view of the distance remote-recording transaction. The producer or audio engineer contacts us, we talk into the mic, they record it...we dust off our hands, and are done. That's why the ISDN alternative technologies look so good to us. Cheaper,...
This'll be brief. Info in today's blog relates back specifically to yesterday's blog (Lobbing the Grenade Into No-No Land). What I'm about to reveal harkens back even further to any number of articles I've written over the last five years that indicates the certain and now accelerating death march...
Just a few days ago, I posted a quick blog about Telos' Z/IP product. More than just an ISDN codec, it also has IP functionality built-in. My point in writing about it was that here is one of the world's premier ISDN codec producers, tipping their hat to the future, seeing the writing on the IP...
Yes...I know...ISDN is not dead yet. OK, got it. But when one of the top makers of ISDN codecs begins moving aggressively to design and market its newest IP solution for remote hi-fidelity recording, it moves the needle a little further towards "I" for inevitable. Telos came out with what it...
John Bisset of Telos Alliance was at the table next to mine at Faffcon 7's "meet the sponsors" event. I didn't have a lot of time to talk to him other than to mention that I owned an XStream codec...then we were both off to talk to people visiting our displays. He seemed like an affable,...
When I first got into ISDN, I connected through AudioTX. Not that many people are familiar with it. AudioTX is a UK firm with a 14-yr track record in connectivity. The equipment is nothing like a Telos or Musicam codec. No box at all. You get a dongle, some software, and then you have to...