
A funeral-home request became a broadcasting company. Seventeen years later, the Cleveland engineer behind BoxCast is still chasing the same stubborn idea: live production should work without requiring a control room full of experts.
A funeral-home request became a hardware-and-software company for churches, schools, governments and event teams. BoxCast’s bet is simple: the best broadcast system is the one that starts on time, survives bad internet and does not need an engineer hovering over it.
Roku won television by treating the streaming player as a ticket, not the show. Its cheap hardware bought a place on more than 100 million home screens - and turned a canceled Netflix project into an advertising and distribution machine Fox now wants to own.