Well first of all, its a bold plan, and one we have already sort of had before when I made MSP Waves all those years ago.
However, unlike Waves which was commissioned of me by an ego that only wanted his own little private toy, this time I built am open-door platform for anyone and everyone to use and made HiveStreams to open the door to anyone who wants to livestream, to have the place to be able to do so.
It is my longer term goal to connect to the 3spk network so that users can save and store live streams for further replay after their live events end, but I am just one guy building this alone with zero budget and only my own sweat equity in it to make it happen, so its a bit slow to develop the lengthy list of features I have in store for everyone. Also, they are only just now coming into a beta phase of that network so it's not quite ready for my platform to feed it yet anyway as far as I can tell so far. It's definitely the plan though.
HiveStreams.Live is intended to offer this opportunity to be accessible to anyone and everyone and currently does just that. Allowing anyone who wishes to stream to the world, a place to do so that is firmly rooted in Hive based philosophies and integrations with the chain, the currencies and other Hive developers tools - like HiveLive.Me for tipping and stream tip overlays by @bambukah, the key tools made by the various auth plugin makers such as Hive Keychain, HiveSigner and soon AIOHA to handle ANY key tool, and also coming soon, 3spk network integration for recording encoding and decentralized replay storage, eventually anyway, though that's got some work on the 3pk nodes side AND on my side to get the coding and integrations done to become fully realized.
But if anyone wants to do some kind of "Hive TV" - they can, right now, today, at https://HiveStreams.Live just like using Twitch or Youtube out in the "normie world" and in fact, they can actually use all three or any other streaming outlet based on the RTMP protocols at the same time ,using various methods or services to restream to multiple outlets.
So I do definitely appreciate your including the site on this post, and to all who read it, if you want to stream, what are you waiting for? You can start right now at HiveStreams and add any of these other components or target outlets as you wish. No limits, no gatekeeping communities or ego-filled would be "community leaders" stopping you at all!
Hope to see you in the streams soon!
Hey @sircork, yes you have done an incredible job with HiveStreams.Live, but what I want to do is bring it together with the other platforms to create an independent project called Hive TV. We certainly do have the technology to do it but that's the easy bit!
Trying to bring people together and organising a daily schedule with regular presenters to make Hive TV a reality - that's the difficult part.
This is true. At the height of Waves, with a ready-made community of about 4,000 people from which to draw show content and hosts, as well as an audience, we were able to at it's peak, get something like 15 or 16 one-hour shows running back to back as I recall for continuous programming.
That took time, to find the show hosts, ensure they would produce content on the required schedule continuously and consistently for their assigned time blocks from week to week, keep the technical operations running, typically having to train all the creators on how to make streaming content, how to use OBS (the industry standard for streaming and even commercial television programming) how to use the platform to keep the stream running during handoffs between time-sequenced shows without dropping the feed to viewers all over the world and more.
But honestly, I am not 100% sure trying to create a monolithic "channel" per se is the contemporary way to do this. I like the concept, but I fear the timing for such a "TechTV" style channel of that nature may have already passed, after all, that peaked on cable in 2004. (What IS Leo Leporte doing these days, anyway? I wonder?)
In the modern content consumer market, the idea is anyone can make video or streaming content, hence youtube, twitch, tiktok, FB reels etc have come to be the de-facto way to consume such media and television is the realm of propaganda, agenda driven drivel and mostly is the territory of "boomers". I'd actually predict "television" in the sense we all grew up with, is on the path of "newspapers" which the last two generations have barely ever even seen in the wild. Just as the internet killed newspapers and "video killed the radio star", self published video and livestreams are also killing centralized or monolithic "television" as a concept entirely.
I do think it would be great if "Hive daily news" reporting and "Hive live event" coverage and so much more took place via the HiveStreams.Live platform, but it's entirely up to the entire community at large to take on how they wish to create it and consume it.
Some will make prerecorded video-on-demand VoD content for 3speak to present in a "youtube" like fashion, others like event creators or game streamers or daily news/talk/interview/etc type content may choose to live stream with a chat audience participating with them and interacting live as one might do on HiveStreams.Live.
If you were talking about making an "actual" television channel, as in, one that would run on broadcast television, or even on cable or satellite networks, well, that's ambitious, expensive and requires infra and quality I am not sure I've seen the means for here, or really even on twitch or youtube, till you get to "Mr Beast" scale budgets and team sizes (hundreds, even thousands of staff involved in each production they make)
But if anyone wanted to make "Hive TV" today, it's certainly possible right now, to live stream, record it, store it on 3Speak and publish about it on the chain. That was always the goal of HSL and 3Speak, currently, each in our own ways and with plans to be more tightly integrated as soon as I can make that technically happen, given I'm doing it alone with no money and little time outside my day job. 3Spk Network I believe is in beta, and from my side, I just need to work on the technical integration to send streams to their encoding nodes and onward to store on their network as it becomes a more production ready system.
Yup, again we have the technology, that's already there. What we now need to make Hive TV a reality is for people to come together so we can organise a properly structured station called Hive TV and bring the community together.
Remember Hive TV will not be a rerun of MSP Waves.
Great back and forth here.
I hope this project pushes forward in the future. I will try to do a few modest donations of Hive or HBD in the future. I have also done a few live streams in the past on the BitTube platform that did not survive. And Rumble/Locals. They have mostly been from my dash and side cams on the 18 wheeler I own and operate here in the southern united states.
I just did a test run on the Hivestreams Live using "CamOn" Live It went well and I will post about it on PeakD. You can see the promo I did on HL. I hope to see more about this in the future as you both have not posted about it since Septemeber that I have seen.?? Thanks again and Rock On the both of You. 👍❤️👍
Hey man, great to meet you! Thanks for this comment I really appreciate it and I am grateful for your support. That was an idea I had back in September, the concept is strong and with enough community support could work in practice.
But since I published that post the project has not got off the ground, there was just too little interest. It's a pity because it could have a central role in bringing the community together.
Fortunately one of my other ideas has now launched. I host a weekly crypto and Hive Discord show in the official Hive Discord server each Wednesday evening at 8pm UTC. We're slowly building it up and in the last show we did we had some senior witness support who got the show more attention, which was great.
If you have time available it would be awesome to see you there!
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