Archaeology Channel service offers HD videos through VIRCAS

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New TAC service offers HD videos through VIRCAS
Monday, September 1, 2008 1:22 PM
From: "RPettigrew @ aol.com"

Friends and colleagues: As online quality continues to improve, audiences increasingly are turning to the Internet as their preferred source for video entertainment. Participating in that trend, ALI now is offering a short-term trial of a new system for viewing videos on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel (http://www.archaeologychannel.org), at resolutions up to and including true High Definition.

We are staying on the cutting edge of technology to give you the best video quality possible through streaming. Partnering with VIRCAS, we invite you to view five video titles using the new VIRCAS player (so far for Windows users only–the Mac version is coming soon). Depending on your bandwidth and the titles you select, you will be able to watch these films at resolutions ranging from DVD to true HD. This is a test to measure traffic and gain experience with this new mode of video delivery.

The titles available through this new service are:

Bilad Chinqit: The Land of Chinguetti (Mauritania, 59 min) (DVD quality)

A Forgotten Place: The History of an Abandoned Farming Community (North Carolina, 52 min.) (DVD quality)

The Greatest Good (United States, 124 min.) (High Definition)

In Vivid Color: Voices from Shiloh’s Mound (Tennessee, 22 min.) (DVD quality)

Signs Out of Time: The Story of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas (Worldwide, 59 min.) (DVD quality)

This and other programs are available on TAC for your use and enjoyment. We urge you to support this public service by participating in our Membership (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/member.html) and Underwriting (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/sponsor.shtml) programs. Only with your help can we continue and enhance our nonprofit public-education and visitor-supported programming. We also welcome new content partners as we reach out to the world community.

Please forward this message to others who may be interested and let us know if you wish to be removed from our mailing list.

Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA

want to set aside some time to look at all the videos they offer.

It's a wonderful idea. Who can't use the information, after all!