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Eddie Eagle
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 Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:03 am Post subject: SoundStreak Buh Bye ISDN |
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I'm liking this
https://www.soundstreak.com/benefits
a lot!
No cost to talent.
Production pays fees. ($24/30 minutes)
Software is free |
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Lance Blair
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:26 am Post subject: |
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I like the product very much and downloaded the software a while ago. It's great that they abandoned the model of buying tokens to pay. But am I wrong in thinking that $24 for a half hour could quickly become far more expensive than ISDN for a busy client?
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Eddie Eagle
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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| But the production company pays. Talent does not. In the long run it depends on how much the production company uses it vs ISDN to see break even and cost effectiveness. |
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NorthEndVoice
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From my experience in a "real world" everyday environment where a studio connects directly with talent, Source Connect is proving itself quite well.
For a smaller studio that doesn't do the volume of larger studios, SS might be an option. However I don't believe the larger studios will embrace a "metered" IP solution when SC is available for purchase and pays for itself rather quickly without paying an "ISDN like" charge. |
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Eddie Eagle
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I'm just being a cheapo because it's free for talent.  |
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georgethetech
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They've been struggling for years trying to sell this business model to producers... If at first you don't fail, fail, fail again. I've not heard of a single VO asked to use SoundStreak, despite how cool the concept is.
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Frank F
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Not really a cool concept at all. It is based upon the old VOIP technology (old in the consideration it is past it's prime already). I worked with the basis for this style of VOIP 10 years ago, and I included midi control for audio and video setups.
Not only is their business model wrong they have not been able to do the two things I described about this project nearly three years ago. I will not elaborate any more.
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NorthEndVoice
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| SoundStreak...." faster than a speeding MixerFace launch " |
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Lee Gordon
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 12:57 am Post subject: |
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| Eddie Eagle wrote: | | the production company pays. Talent does not. |
By and large, the campaign to replace ISDN with internet-based alternatives is driven by the wants and needs of the voiceoverists who either can't get ISDN or don't want to pay the increasing rates. I'm not sure how adding more trouble and expense for the producer who is already invested in ISDN is supposed to get the pendulum to swing in the other direction.
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Bish
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The emperor has lots of new clothes. Each suit looks pretty spiffy, but if you look closely, it still does't fit right. All this new-technology remote-link interwebs connectivity relies on two things. 1) ISDN is dead, and 2) the new VoIP services will slot-in as a functional replacement. Well... it isn't, and they don't.
ISDN will eventually die (or be killed)... of that there is no doubt. The heir will be whomever jostles into the lead during the next few years. Personally I think Soundstreak is a lost cause and it's now between ipDTL and SC. At the moment I think the former has the product, but the latter has the pedigree. That could flip at any time. I don't think any custom hardware solutions will fly... if production houses are forced to give up their Zephyrs, the last thing they'll want to do is buy another couple of grand's worth of dedicated codec!
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Eddie Eagle
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I had not heard of SoundStreak until I read an article the other day on Benztown interviewing Randy Thomas.
I still like the idea of no cost to talent. I also like the reading to picture feature which SC and ISDN don't do (that I am aware of) unless you have a video feed from a producer or network. |
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Bish
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If a producer invests in a Link+ service from ipDTL, there is no cost to the talent either. A lot of us have bought licenses to offer the service ourselves (and because we wanted to play with it), but if we're talking about a production studio replacing ISDN, then I would expect them to pick up the $160 per year for Link+ (as opposed to a $2K codec and hundreds a month on ISDN lines).
... oh, and if you want pictures with your ISDN, just fire up Skype on the compute or phone 
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Eddie Eagle
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| Bish wrote: | but if we're talking about a production studio replacing ISDN, then I would expect them to pick up the $160 per year for Link+ (as opposed to a $2K codec and hundreds a month on ISDN lines).
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Lee Gordon
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| Eddie Eagle wrote: |
I still like the idea of no cost to talent. |
I like the idea of no cost to talent, too. But it ain't the talent that's driving this bus.
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