Don’t bring everybody to the conference room,bring the conference room to everybody. Cancel the meeting on Q3 sales goals and reapportionment of territories. Cancel the sales training on the new line of products. Cancel the demonstration on the new manufacturing process.
Imagine instead, broadcasting each of the above directly to every employee’s desktop in full-motion, full-screen, DVD-quality video. Or imagine having newly hired employees learn about company policies and benefits from an interactive video presentation on their computer screen.
Video-On-Demand
These scenarios are not the idle musings of some techno-futurist. The technology is here now, it is called Video-On-Demand, and it’s poised to revolutionize the way companies train and educate employees.
Being marketed throughout Southern California by 3 Point Digital, Video-On-Demand turns a company’s existing in-house computer network into a virtual broadcast studio. Marketing and sales departments can all harness the power of the moving image to motivate, train and educate. Manufacturing processes can be documented and disseminated quickly throughout a company, speeding up time to market for faster returns on investment.
From the convenience of their desktop, an unlimited number of employees at any time can simultaneously access high-resolution digital video stored on a central server. Anybody who knows how to play their home VHS player can use the familiar controls like play, pause, fast-forward and fast-rewind along with advanced features such as slow motion, forward-step and back-step. There is one control however that they won’t find on the VHS: immediate seek (random access) to every frame in the video.
Frame-accurate video
This last feature, frame-accurate video, gives users unprecedented control over streaming media. Data and keywords can be attached to any frame providing users with immediate, random access to any point in the video using simple search functions.
“Being able to index and organize digital media is a quantum leap in usefulness for streaming media,” pointed out Mike Cavanagh, president of 3 Point Digital. “Searchable video opens a whole new world of information sharing where stored knowledge can be accessed with ease. Video-On-Demand adds enormous value to a company’s intellectual assets, such as training videos and marketing communications, by making them easily accessible to multiple users in multiple locations. Digital, searchable video on the desktop makes it easy to use the power of video to communicate the corporate culture throughout a company.”
Anyone interested in seeing a demonstration of how Video-On-Demand can supercharge a company network with streaming media is urged to contact Mark Sambrano at 3 Point Digital by calling (949) 757-0303. The company hosts regular demonstrations and free seminars covering the latest technologies in digital content creation, storage and media management and distribution at their facility in Orange County located at 17922 Sky Park Circle, Suite D, Irvine, 92614. For a listing of upcoming free seminars, visit 3 Point Digital’s Web site at www.3pd.com.
