The Sonic Foundry MediaSite webcasting solution has a strong market share and many unique features that make it an all inclusive webcasting solution.

If you are a digital audio and video enthusiast then you probably remember that Sonic Foundry was well known for its Sound Forge and Vegas audio editing software. Then they sold that business to Sony and entered the webcast application solution development.

MediaSite Live was created. A turnkey hardware/software solution that has some very sophisticated characteristics. The name of the product - MediaSite Live. I think that there is some meaning in all names and you can usually find the foundation of a product's development in its name. "Live" in this industry generally means some kind of event. So the Mediasite product is designed to handle "live" webcast events i.e. speaker presentations, usually done in auditoriums or locations similar in nature and then encode and publish these events on a web "Site" or portal.

I don't want to get to far off track but I want to present the strengths of this product. Because it is developed with "Live" events in mind, it has integrated features that make this a pragmatic tool not a toy. The VGA capture feature of the MediaSite encoder is more than a cute idea. If you have ever done live webcasting events you know what I am talking about - In 6 out of 9 cases the presenters either don't deliver the PPT slides before the event, changes a slide just before the event, or skips slides during the event. That's where this VGA capture card does its job and that's how Medisite got the name Live! And that is why they have a Patent on the VGA capture process.

Mediasite has developed a product that makes doing live events quite simple. So if you consider the reliability, the outstanding technical support, and the price, you have a winning combination. My recommendation - easy to install, use and maintain.