...and so begins a new year. I'll be cranking up the blog as usual beginning today...but I gotta say, taking about 10 days off from nearly every grow-up responsibility was SO WONDERFUL!!! January is my toughest month of the year, no doubt. It's dark, cold, gloomy. All those things I didn't get...
"When I rest, I rust" That old German proverb is a great rule of thumb for your VO business, but today I use it to throw some praise in the direction of In:Quality -- the maker of ipDTL -- and in particular its founder Kevin Leach. Apparently that adage is not lost on this innovative UK company...
...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...
Yup, the very heart of the entertainment/communication industry on the East Coast - the #2 VO market in the USA - no more ISDN installs.If you already have ISDN, you're fine. Things will continue as normal (for now).This is for BRI service. Apparently Verizon is still offering PRI/T1 connections...
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...
How long is it prudent to hang on to ISDN?...I mean...at a personal level?We all know the TelCos are pretty much fed-up with losing money on the infrastructure that goes into keeping this dinosaur alive...at least in the hinterlands...as in: anywhere else besides NYC and LA. Those phone companies...
Years ago, I helped a voice actor moving to Las Vegas get his ISDN installed through some contacts I'd already researched/established at CenturyLink. He, in turn, helped me with some marketing. His name is Garrett Michaels, and I'm proud to call him a friend.Activation/installation rates for...
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...
No one knows what to get me for Christmas.They ask, and I shrug.Oddly enough, I have no trouble finding stuff to buy for myself. Here's why:I'm a geek and frequent geeky online & brick 'n' mortar placesIt's complicated -- literally -- the stuff I want is hard to understandI'm impatient, and...