...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...
It hurt. But I did it. Part of the reason was because I wasn't getting enough use out of it to justify the cost. But the rest of the reason has to do with my saving face. After all, I ballyhoo'd the death of ISDN on the pages of this blog for years. It was time to put up or shut up. Digital...
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...
The innovation and work that continually goes into making ipDTL the all-around solution for studio-quality client/peer/producer connectivity astounds me.Kevin Leach and his team not only make a robust and stable product, but they seem to be able to anticipate quite well where the digital...
Sometimes an idea comes along that just makes us all do a face-plant, and say: "Of course!...Perfect!"Kevin Leach -- the founding and creative force behind ipDTL -- and his development team, just launched what could be the convergence communication solution for voice-actors seeking...
That's right... the contingency that confounds some voice talents, frustrates others, and and only clients seem to want, is now a regular feature of ipDTL. "Phone Patch" is different things to different people. It's rooted in an older time, when ISDN was king. Some voice talent make it out to...
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...
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...
My sites are set squarely on CES today. 'Almost embarrassing that a Vegas geek like me hasn't set foot on the exhibit floor until the third day! My planned stops include Blue Microphones, Shure, Microsoft, and about 50 other impromptu stops along the way. 🙂 Until I get back with pics of cool...
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,...