Verizon's recent announcement that it would soon be limiting ISDN installs, and even withdrawing ISDN infrastructure support in some states (http://www.radioworld.com/article/alert-for-isdn-users/218605) finally has some professional studios and broadcast operations seeking viable alternatives....
Can the other major TelCo's be far behind? For so long, established studios have pooh-pooh'd early predictions of ISDN's demise. But now, the writing is on the wall. I think it's time to call the undertaker and buy the burial plot. The argument has always gone that the studios -- you know --...
Broadband. ISDN's legacy technology will go away...eventually. Lord knows how much longer the big TelCos will continue to support it. Smart producers, voice actors, audio engineers, and others associated with the business of voice overs are searching RIGHT NOW for the next best thing. It's pretty...
The major telephone companies wish they'd never seen ISDN. It's a pain in the butt to provision, switch, maintain, uphold, and they're not even sure why they do it. The result is ever-increasing installation and monthly fees, especially in the fly-over states. The evidence is everywhere and...
Personally, I figure I'm already in a file cabinet, or a list, or a hard drive somewhere in the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, D.C. Aren't you? 1) When I saw that the recent resignation by CIA director David Petraeus was being handled by the FBI, my suspicions were confirmed as to who...
Throw away most of your previous concepts of remote session recordings for this blog article. This will be a detailed, inside tour of SoundStreak, as told by its CEO, Dan Caligor...and he admits, "...it takes people a while to Grok this." Most of you know of my interest in technological advances...
Even though it's been in beta since somewhere back at the end of the last decade, SoundStreak is enjoying a resurgence. Mentions of voice artists testing the product are showing up on plenty of online forums. I blogged about SoundStreak on Feb 13th, excited about the possibilities, only to find...
Read into the archives of this blog, and you'll see a long and bloody history of my wrestling match with the ISDN demons. More often than not, I found myself pinned with my shoulders to the mat. Once you raise the question about ISDN's possible demise, you inevitably hear from a usually seasoned...
John McClain: owner, President, CEO, and all around Grand Poobah of Dog and Pony Studios in Las Vegas is my ISDN conscience. Somewhere along the line he's taken to advising me when he gets a tidbit about not-so-subtle hernias appearing in the soft underbelly of ISDN service in America. Lately, it...
Owner of the Dog and Pony Studio in Vegas, and audio-pro John McClain shot me a link the other day while he was trying to find something ELSE I'd written about. We DID eventually find what he was looking for (see: https://courvo.com/2011/02/isdn-down.html), but it doesn't matter, as his link was...