Elemental's Live
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an integrated media organization with a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content to a worldwide...
NAB reflects great changes in broadcasting
Talking to people over the last couple of weeks, the usual question has been, What did you make of NAB? All the comments were positive, a good sign surely?...
S3 Group's StormTest
Today's DTV offerings need increasingly complex content delivery platforms to maintain pleased subscribers. Content is now delivered across multiple different...
Telestream announces Vantage Transcode HE Server
The new video transcoder uses the company's LightSpeed acceleration technology to meet the needs of transcoding for multiscreen delivery....
Swisscom turns to Harmonic ProMedia Live for multiscreen transcoding
The Swiss telecom provider is using the system to increase the number of live channels it delivers....
Anevia, NXP Software team up on QoS system for multiscreen OTT
The system consists of Anevia's ViaMotion server software and NXP Software's LifeVibes QuickPlayer video engine....
Allegro DVT unveils high-density video transcoder
The new AL2400 hardware-accelerated transcoder was designed with bulk transcoding farms in mind....
Globecast rolls out OTT service for the Americas
MyGlobeTV is a B-2-C television bouquet that brings international and genre-based content directly to subscribers in the Americas....
MP4 tops list of encoding format used for Web, mobile viewing, says survey
The results of a survey released by Sorenson Media find that while MP4 is popular, many other formats are regularly used. ...
TV-driven social media interaction popular among U.S. viewers, says survey
Survey results from an online study conducted by Accenture reveals nearly two-thirds of Americans have seen social media symbols on screen while watching TV, and a third have actually interacted as a result of the prompting....
OTT-like interactivity comes to Mobile DTV
The Mobile500 Alliance showed a complete Mobile DTV system that integrates the interactive qualities of the second screen with OTA Mobile DTV reception at the 2012 NAB Show....
New NimbleTV service taps cloud, Internet for online TV delivery
The NimbleTV cloud-based software will allow consumers to view their TV wherever they are via the Internet....
Judge questions future of Megaupload trial
A U.S. District Court judge last week raised the prospect that the case against Kim Dotcom, founder of the cyber locker, may never proceed....
Aereo backer urges Congress to protect online video distributors
Speaking yesterday at a Senate hearing, Barry Diller, chairman of IAC, said incumbent providers must not be allowed to discriminate economically or technically against new online rivals....
Don Sperling: Super Bowl New York Giants find success combining webstreaming, social media
The team’s social media night in the days leading up the championship game brought fans and players together by leveraging the potential of the online video and fan input via social media....
DVEO to highlight MultiStreamer at NAB Show
Available in five different system configurations, MultiStreamer encoders from DVEO create multiple simultaneous high, medium and low bit-rate IP streams. ...
New AQORD *LINK delivers IP video encoding for contribution, distribution
AQORD *LINK delivers dual channels of broadcast-quality SD/HD streaming video at data rates of 0.5Mb/s to 20Mb/s using MPEG-TS encapsulation. ...
New Haivision KulaByte 4.0 video delivers Linux-based cloud transcoding
With KulaByte 4.0, Haivision has migrated its transcoding engine to Linux to simplify deployment of the software within cloud computing environments. ...
VITEC to introduce IP transcoding, encoding, streaming systems at NAB Show
The Enterprise Mobile Streaming blade integrates seamlessly with Optibase’s EZ TV IPTV System to provide an integrated solution for delivering live and on-demand content to mobile phones and tablets....
Finnish broadcaster adds VimondSPORTS to deliver interactive fan experience online
MTV3 is giving ice hockey fans the opportunity to watch games in a social media setting that lets them interact, select from different camera angles and time shift. ...
FCC set to take up channel-sharing regulatory framework
The agency will consider a Report and Order on channel sharing, a key part of its strategy to clear broadcast spectrum for future wireless broadband use. ...
NTIA report IDs 95MHz of federal spectrum for broadband repurposing
A new report from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration finds federal spectrum to clear for future wireless broadband use....
2012 NAB Show conference to examine “disruptive media”
This year, the Las Vegas gathering of the broadcast industry will look at OTT, mobile and TV-everywhere technology and the impact they are having on how content is consumed. ...
Haivision to launch KulaByte 4.0 software
The encoding software combines high-quality live video transcoding with cloud computing and Linux simplicity for better performance at a lower cost....
45 percent of U.S. tablet owners watch TV while using device daily
According to new data from The Nielsen Company, nearly twice as many report doing so at least once per month....
