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Limelight Report Shows Online Video Increasingly Watched on Consumers’ Own Terms

by Tom Allen

The shift in consumer online video viewing habits is changing rapidly, according the latest survey of more than 1,200 consumers from Limelight Networks, Inc., (Nasdaq: LLNW), a global leader in digital content delivery. According …

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Consumers Value Content and Quality in Online Video

by Tom Allen

Consumers in developed countries are increasingly watching online video ‘on their own terms’ – so says Limelight Networks’ new ‘State of Online Video’ report. The survey, of more than 1,200 consumers in the UK, …

Netflix Opts for ‘Per-Title’ Encoding to Save Bitrates

by Tom Allen

Netflix has announced a new system of compression called ‘per-title encoding’. This is not a new codec – the company will continue to use H.264 – but a new way of looking at different …

Amazon Announces the Streaming Partners Program

by Isaac Oburu

Amazon today launched the Streaming Partners Program, an over-the-top streaming subscription program for video providers that enables them to reach tens of millions of Prime members. With the Streaming Partners Program, video providers have …

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Vimeo Follows 4k Uploads With Streaming

by Tom Allen

VoD platform Vimeo has begun to roll out UltraHD content for streaming to all users, following the introduction of an upload and download service last year. Initially only available through a browser, the feature …

VirtualPorn360, the First Virtual Reality Site to Launch a Streaming Media Player for Cardboard

by Isaac Oburu

VirtualPorn360.com, the first website at an international stage to produce and distribute adult content in 360º for virtual reality devices, launches this week a streaming media player for Cardboard glasses. This new format provides …

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Optoma launches 1080p multimedia streaming device

by Isaac Oburu

Optoma has just launched a new 1080p multimedia streaming dongle, the HDCast Pro. This device plugs into a projector or TV’s HDMI port to enable wireless streaming of movies, videos, photos, music, documents or …

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LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 47

by Tom Allen

The Radiforce RX850 medical monitor from Eizo (Eizo Brings Modular Monitor to RSNA) has achieved FDA 510(k) clearance for breast tomosynthesis, from the USA’s Food & Drug Administration. Litemax has raised the mean time …

Parks: Streaming Devices Will Rise 186%

by Tom Allen

Annual worldwide unit sales of streaming media devices will grow from 30 million in 2013 to 86 million in 2019, says Parks Associates. Last year, 13% of US broadband households purchased a media streaming …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video| Vol 22 - Issue 44

ICFLIX launches on PS3 and PS4 gaming consoles

by Isaac Oburu

ICFLIX, the Middle East and North Africa’s leading Internet streaming service, have partnered with Sony to make movies and TV series from ICFLIX available to be streamed instantly to TVs via the PlayStation®3 (PS3™) …

Tags:MEA (Middle East & Africa)| PlayStation| sony| Streaming Video

Meet YouTube Red, the ultimate YouTube experience

by Isaac Oburu

For years, YouTube’s fans have been telling us they want more—more choice when watching their favorite content, more ways to support their favorite creators and, above all, the option to watch their favorite videos …

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Roku to Enter French Market

by Bob Raikes

Roku is to start selling its streaming player technology in France, the first company in Europe outside the UK & Ireland, where it started its European business in 2012. The firm will sell the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Roku| Streaming Video| Vol 22 - Issue 42