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VideoCentric Ltd sets up live internet video conference for proud parents to join son's wedding in New Zealand
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VideoCentric Ltd.
Tel: +44 118 9798910
marketing@videocentric.co.uk
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK - April 7th 2002 - VideoCentric Limited, the Video-over-IP Specialists who focus on the supply and support of the world's leading technology for voice and video communication over internet and intranet networks, have installed new technology at the home of Mr & Mrs Davies in East Barnet to allow them to join their son's wedding service and reception in New Zealand, live by internet video conference.
The "virtual wedding", the first of its kind conducted over the internet, was a 5-hour event with live video and audio in four parts, (1) the outdoor wedding service, (2) personal one-to-one conversations between the bride, groom and best man with their UK family and friends, (3) after-dinner speeches from the indoor reception and (4) live speeches in the reverse direction, during which, UK toasts to the happy couple were seen and heard live by the guests in NZ.
To ensure that the atmosphere in the UK was as close to the real thing as possible, family and guests attended the video conference dressed in formal wedding attire; the home had been decorated to replicate the wedding reception using matching flower arrangements and colour-coordinated table decorations; wedding favours (sugar coated almonds wrapped in bridesmaids' colours) were sent from NZ and even a tier of the wedding cake had been flown half way around the world for the UK guests.
Craig Brown, Technical Director of VideoCentric Ltd who set up the link in the UK at 05.30 Sunday morning (16.30 Sunday afternoon in New Zealand) said, "We are pleased to have established such a video conference for the families and guests involved. Its was not possible for Mr & Mrs Davies to make the long trip to New Zealand, yet the new technology, a VCON ViGO Professional system, connected to a standard laptop PC, and a high-speed internet connection enabled us to link the proud parents with their two sons, Jeff (groom) and Martin (brother of Jeff), and Christine, the bride".
Conference details
Wedding venue:
Allely House Hotel, Kumeu, Auckland, New Zealand
Video conference Start time: 05.30 Sunday 7th April
2002 (BST)
Video conference Finish time: 10.30 Sunday 7th April
2002 (BST)
UK connection
capability: Internet ADSL link by Pipex, 256kbps upstream,
512kbps downstream
NZ connection capability: Internet via ISDN dial-up
router. Supplied free by NZ Telecom, 256kbps
UK-NZ connection speed utilized: 128kbps
VideoConferencing
systems used in UK: VCON ViGO Professional with fixed
camera
VideoConferencing systems used in NZ: VCON ViGO with
multiple cameras & camcorders
UK camera system operated by: Craig Brown, VideoCentric
Ltd, Wokingham, Berkshire, UK
NZ camera systems and recorders operated by: Carol &
Grant, Pulse Video, North Shore, New Zealand
Digital photographs in ".jpg" format have been uploaded to a web-site and are available upon request from VideoCentric with permission from the Davies family.
About VideoCentric
VideoCentric is an integrator & reseller of the world’s leading video conferencing and streaming products from RADVision, Codian, Polycom, Tandberg, Emblaze-VCON, Lifesize, SONY & Canon. Headquartered in the Thames Valley, England, with satellite sites in Edinburgh and Ayr Scotland, VideoCentric markets its products and services primarily in the UK but has also formed associations with other Companies worldwide to facilitate the global supply and support of major corporations and system integrators, including those of Cisco, Avaya, Mitel, IBM and Nortel. VideoCentric’s bandwidth services include the supply of ISDN, ADSL, ADSL-Max, SDSL and uncontended leased lines for video and voice over IP, and their other value added services include free demonstrations, long-term rental, short-term hire, installation, maintenance, training, managed multipoint and 24x7 video dial-in support. For more information, visit www.videocentric.co.uk or telephone 0118 9798910 (England/Wales) or 0131 473 2351 (Scotland).
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