TIM Enterprise IS HERE!!! TIM Enterprise is a fully functional private Second Life TV Station, which allows you to program your own media content, and gives you the ability to have as many video streams on your land as you wish. The system gives you complete control from a centralized website over all of your media streams. TIM Enterprise was designed with real-world corporate, educational and non-profit entities that have a Second Life presence, and large SL companies in mind. You can use the system for the streaming of audio, video, images and even karaoke files, for training, education, and even entertainment.
The system uses an exciting new way of experiencing audio and video media in Second Life called MULTICASTING. TIM Enterprise is unique amongst all other SL TV systems because it allows multiple media streams and content, without tying any particular stream to the parcel. and it allows each resident to see their own choice of media on the same screen simultaneously if you desire. TIM Enterprise Players can be set to several different play modes, different channels and is the most sophisticated private SLTV media system in Second Life.
You can purchase multiple editions of the system, to manage different quantities of media streams and combine them all into one larger SLTV network, or have several smaller networks. You may also purchase the add-on package of screens to expand and enhance your network.
1.1 What is TIM Multicasting
TIM (Temporal Industries Media) Multicasting is a brand new audio/video technology created exclusively for Second Life. It provides flexibility for audio and video content that previously has not been able to be offered within the constraints of the Second Life platform. Historically, to provide audio or video streams, there had to be a single audio URL and a single video URL configured on each parcel. Each person on that parcel had to watch or listen to just that one stream. With TIM Multicasting, we remove the audio and video streams from dependency on an in-world server, and from any association with the parcel and move it to each resident's own Second life client. This means that now we are able to have multiple media streams on the same parcel and allow each resident to choose their own personal media content streams, as long as it is configured in the screen. Each resident’s audio/video experience can be independent of what any other resident sees or hears, or the screen can be set for group viewing if the owner wishes. It also means that multiple residents can view and listen to different media on the same screen at the same time if they choose to. Additionally, no media URL is ever set on the parcel, so no one else in Second Life will ever know what you are watching, or listening to.
Features in the TIM Enterprise SLTV System:
You may set the resizable screens to Exhibition or Elective mode that determines whom may access the players menus and how the media is made available to the viewing resident.
You may set other residents to be administrators for the TIM Enterprise system, to control your screens in your absence.
Elective Play Mode: Mode that allows each resident within range of a screen to touch the screen and choose their own media content. They will not affect what any other resident is viewing.
Exhibition Play Mode: Mode that allows a group of the owners guests to all see the same video content together. To initiate Exhibition Play Mode, all guests must be within the set range of the screen *and* on the same parcel as the screen. If they arrive on the parcel after the content has begun, they will be added to the screen as an audience member within 60 seconds.
You may set a three to six character code which will allow the owners friends, guests, or employees to toggle the player from exhibition access mode to elective access mode.
Multiple Modes, such as "Play", a menu option that will start media content configured on a screen for a single resident. "Play+", a menu option that will start media content configured on a screen for all residents in range of the screen.
Included in the system is access to a password protected website that allows subscribers to the TIM Enterprise system to configure their media content, for streaming to the TIM Enterprise Screens.
All screens may be set to any one of three channels (A, B, or C) which may be configured both on the Program Director website and in a particular screen, to allow select media content to be sent to particular screens in world.