Hey Dad, you’ve been in the funeral industry for a while now. Would you be able to explain to me some of the technologies you use? Yeah, so there’s lots of technology we use, particularly behind the scenes, but the stuff that the public sees, the front-facing stuff, probably the more commonly known one would be funeral streaming. You know, everybody seems to know about streaming these days, and I know as part of the whole COVID scene that streaming came into a fore, and so many people would say to me, it’s so cool that you’ve got the streaming now, you know, it’d be great if you had that before.
And I said, well, actually, we’ve had it for 15 years. It’s just before COVID, about one or two streams would be watched a month, was with COVID. And post COVID, even now we have funerals where more people are watching online than are actually at the venue.
And sometimes families get a bit disappointed, they’re expecting a couple of hundred people, and only 100 turn up. But sometimes online, you might have another 120, 130 watching. So there’s actually more than 200 people who are engaging with the funeral.
So streaming is great. We’ve developed a few extra cameras, we just put in another one the other day.
So we have now three in our chapel, so you can change angles, look from the front, look from the side, look from the back.
And we’ve just added another camera outside. So we can watch people as they’re carrying the casket in and out or just talking outside or might be doing a haka or something interesting like that. And we didn’t have a microphone, a very good one out there. Now we’ve got a much better one so that we can actually hear all that as well if need be.
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