With the HoN competitive scene getting more interesting and interest growing on a day to day basis as a result of the Dreamhack LAN festival, the various Shoutcasting sites have started to up the ante in terms of features.Perhaps on the cutting edge is the crew at NevaTV. As per their post on the Heroes of Newerth forums a variety of revolutionary features never before seen in the HoN shoutcasting community are soon to be available exclusively through NevaTV. These features have the potential to dramatically enhance all viewers' experiences and the crew at NevaTV seems to be particularly proud of what they have been able to develop. A quick description of these up and coming features is found below.
Audio Only Streams
In what seemed like the most common-sense feature to add, all NevaTV VODs will offer the option to download only the audio from the match. With the built in three second delay it will now be possible to save both time and hard drive space by just picking up the audio file and syncing the replay and the audio together.
Live Replay
Just like a DVR, viewers will now be able to watch live shoutcasts and rewind them while they are still in progress so they can go back and watch that EPIC hellbourne genocide. No more waiting hours for the VOD to get posted before you can review the match! This feature is another common-sense one that will make the viewing experience a lot more enjoyable for all involved.
PIP Technology
In what might be the most interesting of the new features, NevaTV's technicians have managed to perfect Picture-in-Picture which allows them to display a variety of new options while shoutcasting their matches. By adding this feature the relevant statistics can be displayed or, more importantly, multiple camera angles can be shown. This means that none of the action will be missed because of a slow to react cameraman and should significantly enhance most viewer's watching experience.
Multi-Audio Streams
While at first it seems a bit excessive, multi-audio streams will open up the door for multi-lingual VOD from the same shoutcasts. With the international nature of the Heroes of Newerth tournament scene, the ability to seamlessly switch between multiple audio tracks gives viewers of all nationalities the ability to enjoy shoutcasting in their native languages without compromising the quality of the official shoutcast. With the ability to record your own audio parallel to the official coverage, it also opens up the door to new amateur shoutcasters to get their feet wet and try to mimic their professional idols.
iPhone Version
If at first you don't succeed, make your product work on the iPhone. In quite possibly the most revolutionary of all the features NevaTV's iPhone site is now live and with it bring the possibility of viewing all of NevaTV's content from convenience of your iPhone! Now viewers across the globe will be able to enjoy live shoutcasts and VOD content wherever they are and not have to be tied down to a computer to continue to follow the latest and greatest in the Heroes of Newerth tournament scene. The potential is endless and allows those with busy lives to have increased convenience to sit back and enjoy whatever NevaTV has to offer.
All that aside these features and more launch on June 30th on NevaTV's website. Apparently they are still holding their biggest surprise in reserve until the actual launch of these features, so check back in then for more news from the HoN shoutcasting community!
Links
NevaTV.com - Home Page for NevaTV
NevaTV's iPhone Site - For Your Mobile HoN Fix
