The convo at the start we hear that Boyd speaks to Lain as if on the phone. He tells her Im making videos for the music, and she asks can he set it up right now, which he does.
What does he setup? meaning the videos?

Some background info i have discovered on lain, Serial Experiments Lain is an anime series, It was broadcast on TV Tokyo and a PlayStation game with the same title was released a little after. Lain is influenced by philosophical subjects such as reality, identity, and communication. The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescent girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network similar to the Internet.
There is also a charactor called Alice who is Lain's classmate and her only true friend throughout the series, she always tries to protect and take care of her. Alice is introduced as the shyest part of a junior high school trio, but her character development shows a fearless dedication to her friends. Alice, along with her friends Juri and Reika, were taken by Chiaki Konaka from his previous work, "Alice in Cyberland". When the camera goes into the soundwaves in the sarg tmt video it makes me think of when Lain goes into the Wired.
Alice in cyberland would seem to indicate a connection to our well known thoughts and perceptions with Alice in Wonderland and the different world she enters, as Lain enters a different world through the Wired, and we are taken into a different world in the sarg tmt video, which seems as full of clues and differnt paths as both Lain and Alice discover on their journies.

So Boyd is real but is speaking to the fictional character Lain. Maybe as in the fact that shes ends up being inside the wired. So boyd is speaking to her but shes online or inside the computer/internet before the camera goes into the screen.

Yes Boyd is real

lol maybe he's not. How do we know his name is boyd. I interested how the Lain path goes. Well might not be a path probably a puzzle in a maze which you can only reach via another maze which requires a password to enter.

and when we find out we realize we have always been in Plato's cave.

At least we can eat

Might be worth sending a message to some of the anime networks. But Lain isnt your typical anime. Its as if David Lynch directed a William Gibson novel.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-04/st_15eva

15th Anniversary: The Cultural Legacy of Neon Genesis Evangelion

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Wired was likely the only major magazine to spotlight Studio Gainax before it unveiled the biggest anime phenom of the '90s. In his April 1995 profile of the company, Andrew Leonard casually mentioned that Gainax's star animator was at work on a "new giant-robot TV series." That show, Neon Genesis Evangelion — Eva to its legion of fans — would do for anime in Japan what The X-Files did for cult sci-fi in America. Check out its ever-expanding cultural influence

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Otaku chic (1997-present) Eva's success turned the insult "otaku" — obsessed fans — into a buzzword. Today the Japanese foreign ministry hosts cosplayers.

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Serial Experiments Lain (1998) A flood of anime followed Eva, but few took risks like Lain. Its spin on information networks was as cryptic as Eva's take on archetypal psychology.