Tuesday, January 23, 2007

SOPCast the Esssential for online tutoring

What is SOP and What is DBS – Essential for online Tutoring
Alongside Google Video, Youtube and several other video-streaming services Sopcast has come up as one of the most user-friendly service. Sop is an abbreviated form of Streaming over P2P. Sopcast itself is a Streaming Direct Broadcast System based on P2P. The core is the communication protocol produced by Sopcast Team, which is named Sop://, or sop technology.
With an aim of making the world to build up personal video and let this media broadcast through a channel very easily. Registered users can not only make a channel very easily, but also can make a channel groups with the fans who have the same interesting using the Sopcast system. This is almost equivalent to create a “favorite” group or collection. They will share their content with Net friends all over the world. A terminology has been derived for such enthusiasts which is called podcaster.
Sopcast Features:
A very simple exclusively your media platform, real-time audio and video publishing your own programs
Setup your own channel group and limit the viewers
Build a group based on interest and easy to share
Subscribe your favorite broadcasting group
Get stream data from many nodes on the SOP network at the same time, make the channel more available and stable.
Support many stream types, like asf, wmv, rm, rmvb. etc.
Support multiple files play loopy.
Support broadcast source quality and channel quality monitor to help to select a perfect channel
Total memory cache, no harm to the harddisk.
Support authentication on both the source and the clients depend on the uses choices.
Support logging and analyst all the channels visit.
In near future classroom lessons can actually be transmitted real-time to hundreds of students in different locations world-wide. This will take online tutoring to new heights. Attaining this landmark in e tutoring and online classrooms is possible only through the usage of this kind of software.
About DBS
The first commercial DBS service, Sky Television plc (now BSkyB), was launched in 1989. Sky TV started as a four-channel free-to-air analogue service on the Astra 1A satellite, serving the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. By 1991, Sky had changed to a conditional access pay model, and launched a digital service, Sky Digital, in 1998, with analogue transmission ceasing in 2001. Since the DBS nomenclature is rarely used in the UK or Ireland, the popularity of Sky's service has caused the terms "minidish" and "digibox" to be applied to products other than Sky's hardware. BSkyB is controlled by News Corporation.
PrimeStar began transmitting an analog service to North America in 1991, and was joined by DirecTV Group's DirecTV (then owned by GM Hughes Electronics, in 1994. At the time, DirecTV's introduction was the most successful consumer electronics debut in American history. Although PrimeStar transitioned to a digital system in 1994, it was ultimately unable to compete with DirecTV, which required a smaller satellite dish and could deliver more programming. DirecTV eventually purchased PrimeStar in 1999 and migrated all PrimeStar subscribers to DirecTV equipment. In 2003, News Corporation purchased a controlling interest in DirecTV's parent company, Hughes Electronics, and renamed the company DirecTV Group.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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