“The Berlin Philharmonic (aka the Berliner Philharmoniker, aka the world’s greatest orchestra) will launch its first full season of live webcasts on August 28 with Simon Rattle conducting,” and “the Berliner’s Digital Concert Hall” is “terrific: a high-definition image (Flash H.264 encoding), exceptional sound quality (data transfer rate of up to 320 kbit/s, close to CD quality) and even good camera work (remote controlled).” High quality is pretty much required, however, because the webcasts aren’t free.