Some friends from the London Tuttle Club are broadcasting live from the Greenbelt festival this weekend on mobile phones using Qik to test this sort of technology. (Tuttle is becoming quite a hotbed for digital multimedia types, what with another bunch going to Cannes for Seesmic, and Phreadz‘ founder Kosso a regular among many other luminaries - and there’s us of course, but we build back end stuff you never see :-( . Anyway, here’s the live feed at the moment:

It’s not hard to see this will be the way that all sorts of events not currently televised will potentially be broadcast live. I recall some years ago watching the BBC R&D guys experiment with this sort of system in embryo - 3 am-cams and a mixing van gives a pretty pro result. Broadband ‘net didn’t exist then, but the rest of the technology did - except now its much smaller and cheaper.

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