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Party on a PDA!
Tuesday, 02 October 2007 14:10
It seems hard to believe but – thanks to Eddie and our good friends at Groovy Gecko - we’ve been webcasting The Party for 5 years! We started webcasting back in 2002 with lo-fi sound, a single camera with lo-res video and managed to cover 4 hours of the Party... all via nothing much more than a standard phone line! Now we’ve just finished a new multiple camera high-bandwidth set up with much higher quality video, near CD quality sound, and a live chatroom!
We never need much of an excuse to celebrate something and 5 years of webcasting seems like as good a reason as any! So, to celebrate we wanted to use our new webcast system to create a virtual party on the net on Friday 12th October. We know there are webcast regulars from the USA, China and across Europe so if you’re tuning in on the 12th, please say hi in the chatroom...
If you’ve got friends abroad or in the UK who aren’t coming to the Party, please help spread the word to join the webcast on 12th where for the first time we’ll be projecting the webcast back into the Party – complete with chatroom and video so you can send messages to the Party People! (Just visit planetangel.net on the day to tune in or you can follow this link to get things set up now if you like to avoid fussing around on the night!).
There are some great stories of people using the Planet Angel webcast, like the guys in America who projected the video and put the sound out through a sound system and partied with us and Keni ‘s ‘Party on a PDA – in Vegas!’ Here’s the story in Keni’s own words!
“I was recently sent to Las Vegas for business, I was looking forward to it due to the nature of the place and the reason I was being sent. Until I realised that it would fall over a party ?
Considering that I’ve only missed 2 parties since I discovered Planet Angel back in 2003, you can understand I was slightly upset. When I expressed this to friends I was reminded that the Party is web casted. Quickly working out the time differences (-8 GMT) I would find myself being able to view the party my time around 1400 ? So of I went to Vegas, tequila in hand safe in the knowledge that I was going to be able to see some of the party...
Fast forward a week later and a very tired Keni sits in his hotel suite with a steak and wishing he was home, I have NOT time for Vegas and I just really wanted to go home...
1400 came and I switched my laptop on and pointed to planetangel.net and low and behold a link for the webcast. Clicked and up springs windows media player... within moments I’ve looking at a busy meltdown room at many different views and with some funky visuals to accompany it. I watched and listened in amazement, finally some good music in Vegas. I called my friends at Planet Angel and let them know I can see them and wave at me...
I finished my steak and washed it down with a couple of Budweiser’s. Now I’m a big fan of the Party as you know, but as time rattled on this was Las Vegas on a Friday night I said to myself. It has to be viewed, right... But I’ll miss out on all my mates! Not so, as I grabbed my headphones and my little pda phone and tuned into the same webcast and walked up and down the strip whilst Sly and Jurrane banged out some banging tunes...
A Pint, a PDA & a Party!
I even went into a bar and sat at the end and had some more beers whilst watching the party in full flow.
When the party finished at 0600 I was sitting in my bath robe after a long soak whilst listening/watching the night unfold. That was my cue to go out and see what late night Vegas had to offer. Let me tell you now in advance, not much (Think Blackpool on heat!)
So the next time you’re in the Meltdown room look up near the DJ booth and see if you can spot one of the 4 cameras we have and wave to other people in a hotel in Vegas”.