KLAS-TV and its terrific website LasVegasNow.com are sending four student reporters from UNLV to the Democratic convention, armed with all the latest technology tools. Explains Director of Digital Media Christopher Way:
“The cool part is that they’ll be taking Nokia N95 smart phones and streaming video from the phones live back to LasVegasNOW.com and unlvtv.unlv.edu/dnc/ using Kyte. They also sending updates via Twitter and producing finished packages which we’ll broadcast/publish on KLAS-TV and LasVegasNOW.com. The Kyte player allows two way interactive between the phone streaming the video and a chat window on the player (messages sent through the chat interface show up as text messages on the camera-phones). So essentially, people living in southern Nevada will be able to interact with the student reporters in real time as they are streaming video from the convention floor. Want to ask a Nevada delegate a question? Send the students a question via the chat window as they are streaming live.”
This is a screen grab (not embedded) of the Kyte player as the LasVegasNow team puts it through a test. Very cool stuff.