My ISDN lines were installed 5 years ago. I was giddy when my Telos XStream codec arrived. When I have a session, I'm grateful for the technology, but honestly...I'm starting to see ISDN as a ball 'n' chain. You know me...I like cutting edge. When I see something waning into oblivion...I want...
Free-market forces are having a heyday in anticipation of ISDN's eventual downfall. If you've spent any time at all on the pages of this blog, you know that I've been following this trail closely. There doesn't have to be just ONE successor to the throne of the twisted copper wires. There may be...
Several emails recently have suggested that everyone might benefit from a side-by-side comparison of the three emerging technologies that seem poised to move into the space being slo-o-o-o-owly vacated by ISDN: hi-fidelity remote audio recording. I can think of people like George Whittam who...
We've talked about this. All the best laid plans of ipDTL, and Source-Connect NOW, and SoundStreak, and even Skype will be for naught as long as the big guns decide they're gonna hang on to their ISDN until the TelCos come over and rip the copper wires out of their wall. It's not that they're...
...At least not if you want to hear the answer to the question I posed late last week on this blog: "SourceConnect NOW...Free?" The response to that mention of "free" was viral! Source-Connect is up to something, and EWABS is the perfect place to make a big announcement about their pricing....
No other question dominates discussions about the recent spate of ISDN-replacement technologies: How much will it cost? Kevin Leach at ipDTL has tinkered with his subscription fee a little since the first release. SoundStreak offered their service at no cost for the longest time. Now that it's...
As voice-actors, we get used to being regarded as the lost stepchild of target marketing. For some reason, musicians, broadcasters, and audio engineers are pursued as viable product-purchasers, but not voice over talent. What do they think?....we make our own microphones, pre-amps, and DAWs? That...