Hardlines Company provides webcasting services for everyone from touring bands to Fortune 500 Companies. Although we are based in Bellingham, we do events not only in Whatcom County or Washington, but worldwide. To date we’ve done webcasts in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Geneva, Paris, Prague, and in Kobe, Yokohama and Nagoya, Japan - as well as in a number of cities across the U.S. and Canada. We take video signals from analog gear, or digital video cameras, and broadcast it worldwide, live, over the internet. Normally we provide both Microsoft Windows Media 9 and Apple QuickTime 7 (H.264) streaming media feeds for the convenience of our viewers, but we can also stream the media in RealVideo, Macromedia Flash, or whichever format fits your needs best. The next time you need to reach an audience with web-enabled video, whether your audience is a few people, or spread out across the world, please contact us. We can provide anything from a turnkey solution to just the encoding process. We work closely with video producers, directors, and webmasters to get live video out to the world, using internet technologies. Here is a list of just a few instances where webcasting could be used: Board or other Annual Meetings Sales Meetings Training Product Launches Graduations Conferences Sporting Events Distance Learning Concerts Public Speeches Webcasting not only requires a video production and encoding component, but also requires a reliable, high performance internet connection for us to send our streaming media to our servers. (The end users connect to our servers, here in the United States, regardless of where we are located). Because we require this high speed connection, we often provide Event IT Services to our clients on location. In these cases we arrive several days before the actual event, source the internet connectivity and provide secure WPA Wireless (WiFi) connectivity, printing, internet kiosks, and IT Support services to our clients. We work with Windows PC’s as well as Apple Macintoshes, providing complete support for VPN’s, private networks, etc. In many cases, we are able to reduce the total cost of internet connectivity while dramatically increasing the bandwidth available to our clients by reducing the number of internet connections that are needed in a convention center.