Blended into the courtroom architecture, they are nearly unrecognizable. We use RealPlayer for Netcasting from a Silicon Graphics Unix O2 Server, configured for low-end modems. Digitizing the audio and video is handled by a standard Windows Intel computer. We use a large variety of software to support our web and broadcast communications. In fact, we've been on the Web since 1994, so we have used just about all the major software associated with web programming, some which is no longer used.
Evolution is ruthless on the Web.
Today's most lauded software can become a dead dinosaur in a year or two if it doesn't keep up with the pace of technology. When broad bandwidth becomes standard, this also is going to change the way we look at the Web. If a time comes when users can download CD-sized files in a few seconds, the bandwidth problem will cease to be a factor. A day could come when broadcast quality video can be downloaded very rapidly over the Web.