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C-O Part Deux

You might be best served by reading my blog of January 24th: Morrison’s Mad Moves (if you haven’t already) before reading “Part Deux” below.

Randy Morrison is at the same time a kid with a new toy, and a guy with a monkey on his back.  ConnectionOpen has lots of horses under the hood, but the road to a full-production release has had a few curves.

After my blog in late January, Morrison wrote…

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Morisson's Mad Moves

Morisson’s Mad Moves

Randy Morrison keeps bouncing in and out of my life.  He USED to live and work radio in Las Vegas, but these days, he’s a voice-actor based out of the Austin, TX area. 

Aside from Randy’s awesome talent, and incredible voice…the reason we keep intersecting is because Randy has a killer idea and he won’t let it go; and something about that makes me want him to succeed.

Morrison’s killer idea is to…

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No Flowers Please...

No Flowers Please…

A burning candle with a white coffin and a flower arrangement on the background in a mortuary

…just send donations to the next-gen technology company that will inherit ISDN’s faithful.

Yesterday well-known production house ProComm Voice Talent delivered a message to its member talent that it was transitioning away from reliance on ISDN (by the end of March, next year).

The full text of the letter…

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Going…going… The cooler heads were right.....back then. Years ago, when I began blogging of the impending death of ISDN, there were plenty of people around to tell me the end of that technology was still far away.

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THIS is why studios don't want to relinquish their ISDN

THIS is why studios don’t want to relinquish their ISDN

As voice talent, we see a simplistic view of the distance remote-recording transaction.  The producer or audio engineer contacts us, we talk into the mic, they record it…we dust off our hands, and are done.

 That’s why the ISDN alternative technologies look so good to us.  Cheaper, software rather than hardware configurations, and just as clean.

ipdtl

Source-Connect

SoundStreak

ConnectionOpen

Sky…

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...and One More

…and One More

This week’s webinar featuring popular alternatives ipDTL, SoundStreak, and SourceConnect resurrected the sleeping sibling in this set of options.

Close followers of this blog will recall my mentioning yet another ISDN alternative in earlier posts: ConnectionOpen.com

See: The Search for ISDN’s Successor (Feb 2013)

ConnectionOpenhas never gone away, it just hasn’t been beating the drum much…

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