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Giraffic Technology Speeds Streaming and File Transfer

by Chris Chinnock

Israel-based Giraffic was at CES showing off the latest advances to its Adaptive Video Acceleration (AVA) technology and demonstrating how it can increase video quality within a given bandwidth, or reduce bandwidth needed for …

DivX Searches for New Identity

by Chris Chinnock

DivX is a company I (CC) have a hard time understanding, so in our meeting at CES, I asked them to explain what they did and what their mission is. Even after their explanation, I …

MEA Broadcasters Must Enhance Customer Experience in Bid to Counter the Flood of OTT Content

by Helen Vince

The acceleration of localized content production, the significant increase in the number of over-the-top (OTT) providers, and the defensive stances being employed by telcos and broadcasters against freemium services will all shape the coming …

Tags:Broadcast Market| IDC| OTT Video

Sling TV Takes Home Top Honors at the 2015 International CES, Wins Engadget’s “Best of the Best” Award

by Helen Vince

Sling TV L.L.C. today announced it received awards from Digital Trends, Engadget, GottaBe Mobile, Mashable, PCMag.com, Reviewed.com, Techlicious, TechnoBuffalo, TechRadar and The Verge at the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Sling TV is …

Tags:CES 2015| OTT Video

Industry Insight: Four Tech Studies Debut at CEA’s Research Summit

by Helen Vince

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® unveiled four new studies to provide insights on growing consumer technology segments and adjacent markets at CEA’s Research Summit, held at the 2015 International CES® running January 6-9 in …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| OTT Video| UltraHD & 4K| Wearables

ViXS powers first 4K Ultra HD HEVC 10-Bit OTT media player

by Bob Raikes

Vixs was showing different tone mapping strategies for HDR contentViXS has had a good time recently as it has been ahead of most of its competition with UltraHD support in the XCode 6400. The …

Elemental Says Content Delivery Providers Starting to Adopt More Sophisticated Methods

by Bob Raikes

Broadcast & Distribution – Elemental Technologies delivered a webinar titled, “Creating scalable workflows for file-based video delivery.” It laid out several architectures that content delivery providers are able to configure – with Elemental products, …

Research Shows Streaming Content is on the Way Up

by Bob Raikes

Video streaming is the way of the future for many analysts. Two new research studies show more evidence for this trend. The first survey from TiVo Research shows that US Millennials favor streaming services …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Streaming Video| Vol 22 - Issue 01

Sandvine Sees Video On Demand Dominating Broadband Internet

by Helen Vince

TV – Sandvine, the Canadian provider of an internet network policy control platform, has released data on who is using all this available broadband bandwidth and how much goes to video on demand. As discussed …

Tags:broadband| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Netflix Arrives on Panasonic’s Older TVs

by Raverstead

UltraHD Netflix streams were made available on Panasonic’s AX800 TVs earlier this month (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 44). The service has now arrived on the slightly older AX802 TV.

Sony Discusses Crackle at Next TV Summit

by Raverstead

Sony discussed its Crackle OTT offering at the Next TV Summit. Sony stated that networks have become more equal in the eyes of the consumer through the use of apps. At the same time, …

Video Everywhere Requires New Technology

by Raverstead

There was a further panel discussion on the future of video everywhere and the measures needed to improve the delivery on every screen. The title of the session was “Technology Improving Video Delivery on …

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