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Visit Times Square for New Year

By ITWeb
Johannesburg, 28 Dec 2000

Web camera portal EarthCam plans to broadcast New Years Eve celebrations from around the world - including New York`s Times Square - on its site for the fifth year in a row.

The official webcaster of New Year`s in Times Square (as designated by the Times Square Business Improvement District), EarthCam will cover the New York event from its glass-enclosed Skybox Studios in Times Square.

Streaming video, audio and chat will provide its viewers with the ability to watch from multiple vantage points by offering seven additional webcams in and around Times Square. Postcard Kiosk in the Times Square Visitors` Center enabling users to digitally capture their New Year`s experience and email it to friends around the world.

Anyone with a personal PC camera will be able to broadcast their own New Year`s Eve pictures directly into EarthCam`s video chat section of the site.

New Years Eve will also be broadcast from webcams from countries covering 22 different times zones from New Zealand to Hawaii.

EarthCam`s 1999-2000 webcast received in excess of 200 million page views, more than 50 million unique visitors, and served over 80 000 video and audio streams.

Visit EarthCam`s New Year`s broadcast on http://www.earthcam.com/newyears/2000-2001/

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