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C-O Part Deux

You might be best served by reading my blog of January 24th: Morrison's Mad Moves (if you haven't already) before reading "Part Deux" below. Randy Morrison is at the same time a kid with a new toy, and a guy with a monkey on his back.  ConnectionOpen has lots of horses under the hood, but the road...

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Morrison’s Mad Moves

Morrison’s Mad Moves

Randy Morrison keeps bouncing in and out of my life.  He USED to live and work radio in Las Vegas, but these days, he's a voice-actor based out of the Austin, TX area.  Aside from Randy's awesome talent, and incredible voice...the reason we keep intersecting is because Randy has a killer idea and...

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No Flowers Please…

...just send donations to the next-gen technology company that will inherit ISDN's faithful. Yesterday well-known production house ProComm Voice Talent delivered a message to its member talent that it was transitioning away from reliance on ISDN (by the end of March, next year). The full text of...

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Connection Open: Final Beta

Connection Open: Final Beta

Regular readers of this blog will recognize that I've written several times about the "other" IP remote connection solution called ConnectionOpen.Most everyone is familiar with ipDTL, Source-Connect, or Source-Connect NOW.  In Europe, many voice actors and producers use SessionLink Pro.While there...

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Going…going…

Going…going…

The cooler heads were right.....back then.Years ago, when I began blogging of the impending death of ISDN, there were plenty of people around to tell me the end of that technology was still far away.They were right, and I was right.  It WAS the beginning of the end several years ago.  But any...

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Next WoVOChat:  ISDN vs. IP Alternatives

Next WoVOChat: ISDN vs. IP Alternatives

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...

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THIS is why studios don’t want to relinquish their ISDN

THIS is why studios don’t want to relinquish their ISDN

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,...

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