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Tonight I will be webcasting live at Voyager. Voyager normally webcasts at a 24k bitrate, which in layman's terms means its available to anyone who has a Dialup Internet conneciton. Tonight, however, I'll be webcasting in Broadband in order to test the possibility of broadcasting at a higher bitrate. This, of course, will exclude Dialup listeners.
I'm having difficulty deciding whether to give my webcast a permanent Fidelity Injection or not. Should I broadcast at a lower bitrate, sacrificing higher quality for the potential of being available to more listeners? Or is it time I "throw in the towel", so to speak, and make my webcast available only to those who have Broadband. I've considered taking the middle road, too--making it available to 56k'ers and up (it's currently available to 33k'ers and up). Yet I fear that will serve to only excommunicate most everyone, because the minor leap from 24k to 32k in order to optimize for 56k'ers may prove too high a bitrate for those listeners on the opposite side of the world, unless they have Broadband. This is due to heavy 'net congestion. Boy, this is a boring blog entry.
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