[Burlington, CANADA] Launched in August, Funeral-cast.com is a unique
application of Web technologies allowing family, friends and
acquaintances the opportunity to view funeral, memorial, and
graveside services online from any location.
Site activity during the first 60 days of operation has has far
exceeded the companys expectations.
Visitors to the site have viewed over 11,000 funeral, memorial, or
graveside services and over 27,000 viewings of online death notices
and or online memorials have occurred.
Services have been viewed from as far away as France, Poland, and
Australia.
The funeral homes are supplied with self installable kits, starting
at US $1500 that allow for easy installation in about 2 hours.
The kits include everything needed to broadcast both live streaming
and video on demand services. They include:
- Sony Mini DV Digital Camera.
- Camera mount (ceiling, wall or tripod).
- High impedance wireless directional microphone.
- Audio capture and playback card.
- Video capture and playback card.
- Wireless Audio/Video transmitter/receiver.
- Web encoding software package.
- Funeral broadcast on www.funeral-cast.com
The number of funeral homes utilizing the services of the site is
growing continually, averaging two new ones on board each week.
Infinite Design Software is currently in negotiation with several
firms to bring the product to other countries around the globe.
Infinite Design is the largest developer and supplier of funeral home
management software in Canada and offers the funeral-cast services
through both independent and corporately owned funeral homes.
