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March 25, 2014      5:19 PM

GEREN ANNOUNCES MAJOR UPGRADES TO BROADCASTING HOUSE PROCEEDINGS INCLUDING UNLIMITED VIEWERSHIP

Quality and quantity substantially improved as rollout begins for both House and Senate

As the last special couple of special sessions demonstrated, there are moments when a broad public is intensely interested in what is happening under the pink dome.  For instance, until now, the software used by the Texas House only allowed 2,500 viewers at a time which has lead some private groups to seek to independently broadcast proceedings.

However, today House Administration chairman Charlie Geren announced a series of technological upgrades that will allow unlimited viewership of activities on the House floor, committee meetings and other events.

One of the upgrades includes encoding in the H.264 format which allows accessing feeds from mobile devices and in larger formats.  The result will be improved video archives.

By Harvey Kronberg