Press Release
SpectraRepâ„¢ to Demonstrate
Live Educational Datacasting Using Digital Television
Ed Tech & Ice Cream Event
to Highlight Educational Technology
(Chantilly, VA,
August 23, 2002) - SpectraRep announces that they have been selected to
datacast live content over digital television at the Ed Tech & Ice
Cream event being held on Capitol Hill Sept. 4, 2002. The event is
sponsored by the Association of Public Television Stations and will take place
from 3:30 - 6:30 pm, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-50. APTS is
holding this event to highlight the educational technology initiatives that
public television stations are undertaking as part of the transition to digital
television. SpectraRep, along with 28 other vendors, will be on-hand to
demonstrate their latest technology.
"Television has been called a vast wasteland, but digital television brings
educational opportunities for the youth of tomorrow. This event will showcase
some of the many educational technology advances that are already
underway," says John Lawson, President and CEO of APTS. SpectraRep will
datacast high quality live content over WETA-DT to multiple receive locations in
the Washington area. This new technology can be used for distance learning,
streaming video and other K-12 classroom materials delivered to students over
digital television signals. "The benefits of datacasting to schools are
scalable, cost effective, high quality distribution of any digital content to an
unlimited number of students within the television station coverage area,"
states SpectraRep's President, Rick Ducey. SpectraRep is a leader in developing
educational and commercial applications for datacasting over digital television.
The event is open to the public.