Livestream Broadcaster

I've had it for about five months now. In that time Livestream has significantly upgraded the firmware and the entire service. It's a mature and reliable product.

Read all the information here and on Livestream's site. It does have some limitations but they're reasonable and easy to deal with.

I also built a PC for thousands of dollars to do everything I need on Livestream. It has much greater capability but it doesn't fit in my pocket, run for hours on batteries of fit the accessory shoe on my camera.

If you can live within its limited capabilities (and it's pretty capable) you'll be pleasantly surprised.

So far I have done 3 events and this box is just one amazing piece of equipment, must have gadget for a wedding videographer.

Works great with my Sony VG30 camcorder and Nikon D600 DSLR.

I love the fact that I can create event on fly without a PC using the LiveStream Android App on my phone.. video quality is excellent and you have a choice of upto 5 different video broadcast quality.

Setup was a breeze ... 3 steps and thats all there is to it, stores WiFi network to connect easily. You may want to invest in atleast 6 AA Eneloop rechargeable batteries.

I cannot find a flaw in this device to give anything less than 5 stars, works exactly what I had imagined and then some. Magnetic tabs to hold battery panel is a prime example that goes on to show that LiveStream design engineers were thinking ahead of curve.

Compact, lightweight, well lit display, excellent product overall made me login here and say few good words about this product.

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*** Update 3/25/13 ***

I still like the Broadcaster, however, when I used it with high quality Lithium Pro batteries the unit failed, I think it overheated. I've done several tests and a couple of events, one for almost 1.5 hours with inexpensive batteries without any heat issues. When I used the lithium batteries for a wedding after about 20 minutes the unit would not stay connected to my Verizon MiFi device. The signal strength indicator said I had a good signal (it was only a foot away) but the text on the screen said it could not find an Internet connection. So in the middle of the wedding I changed back to the standard batteries and the unit came back up and streamed for another 30 minutes without any problem. The only time I've had this problem is when I've used the lithium batteries. When I pulled the lithium batteries out of the Broadcaster they were very hot to the touch. So I'm staying away from Lithium batteries, I think I can get about 2 hours out of standard batteries which is should be find for broadcasting weddings. Here is a link to a wedding that I did using the "High" quality but not "HD" setting:

Original Review

I purchased this to stream weddings and special events. I've used it a couple time to get comfortable with it before my first live wedding. During my testing I've learned a lot about the unit.

No matter what I've not been able to stream HD over a wireless network. Even when using SpeedTest.net to measure my upload speed at double what should be needed HD simply isn't reliable.

High quality is supposed to be almost as good a picture as HD and I can stream this quality over wireless and Verizon MiFi

When using the wireless with my Verizon MiFi, if I pass between the encoder and the MiFi hotspot I lose some of the bandwidth and I get a bandwidth warning. So, I keep clear line of sight between the encoder and the MiFi hotspot.

When I mounted the encoder on a bracket on my videocamera next to my Sennheiser ENG receiver I sometimes get interference from the encoder. When I move the encoder more than 6 inches from the receiver the static goes away.

The encoder is slow to start up and can take up to a few minutes to find my Verizon MiFi and connect to Livestream. Once you have selected the correct event the streaming starts quickly.

I have not had any problems with the encoder remembering WiFi settings. I have one setting in the encoder and it works every time. However I have to make sure my MiFi is up and running before turning on the Broadcaster of it won't find the network.

Battery life is not as good as expected. When I use standard AA batteries I get about 90 minutes of broadcast time. Since I'm planning on doing weddings this is plenty of time for me. I've not tested a higher quality set of batteries yet, I'll see at my wedding this weekend.

Over all I like the Broadcaster and Livestream. Connecting to my event page and starting the streaming is easy to do. I may try to edit this post after my wedding and get comments from my clients.

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This thing really does what it claims to do. It's easy to set up and offers a bevy of onboard options. Would have given it 5-stars if it was rechargeable. But that's nitpicking. It's pretty sweetespecially for the

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