RLJ Entertainment's Titus Bicknell offers advice to OTT publishers at Streaming Media West.
Short Cuts,
Posted 03 May 2018
In this first installment in a series of articles looking at best practices for delivering premium video content, we look at managing the first mile.
Featured Articles,
Posted 02 May 2018
Live video is getting interactive requiring bidirectional communication with low latency. Companies like Ex Machina, Haivision, nanocosmos, and Wowza—as well as the SRT Alliance—are working on solutions.
Featured Articles,
Posted 01 May 2018
In a sign of how competitive the video solutions market has become, Cisco exits the pay TV area by dumping assets at a bargain price.
Online Video News,
Posted 01 May 2018
Android devices and app-based viewing saw big surges last quarter, as viewers embrace the "appification" of TV.
Online Video News,
Posted 25 Apr 2018
A group of powerful studios wants to shut down Set TV, which sells a $20 per month subscription service that delivers 500 premium channels.
Online Video News,
Posted 24 Apr 2018
Streaming Media's Shawn Lam and Vimeo's Mark Kornfilt discuss Vimeo's acquisition of Livestream and implications for the Vimeo platform.
Featured Articles,
Posted 23 Apr 2018
Streaming Media launched during the dot-com bubble, and while some of the early players faded away when their funding ran out, others helped chart the future of the industry.
Featured Articles,
Posted 23 Apr 2018
Yesterday's sci-fi visions of the future are here, so now the real work begins. Video providers need to outsmart the big names or they'll find themselves hunting for scraps.
Featured Articles,
Posted 23 Apr 2018
To celebrate Streaming Media's 20th year, here's an overview of 20 major patents and standards that have impacted the growth of the streaming media industry.
Featured Articles,
Posted 18 Apr 2018
When moving to the cloud, don't let price be the only consideration. This guide explains the different categories for cloud VOD encoding and the features to look for in each.
Featured Articles,
Posted 18 Apr 2018
Streaming Media has been around for 20 years, and has seen a lot of interesting technologies, opportunities, and business acumen come together.
Featured Articles,
Posted 18 Apr 2018
H.264 still leads, HEVC is starting to gain traction, and AV1 had its coming-out party. To add to the confusion, other codecs offer alternatives to all three. Jan Ozer makes sense of all the codec news from this year's NAB.
Featured Articles,
Posted 17 Apr 2018
Bitmovin's Christian Feldmann talks with Streaming Media's Jan Ozer about the AV1 encoding quality gains the company found in comparison to HEVC
Featured Articles,
Posted 17 Apr 2018
Mux CEO Jon Dahl talks about the company's QoE flagship QoE product and Mux Video, a new API to video hosting and streaming.
Featured Articles,
Posted 17 Apr 2018
NGcodec CEO Oliver Gunasekara talks about how his company uses field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) available on standard cloud computers to accelerate high-quality encoding of HEVC and VP9 video, and what this might mean for AV1.
Featured Articles,
Posted 17 Apr 2018
V-Nova co-founder and CEO Guido Meardi describes how his company has taken the PERSEUS codec launched three years ago and produced a finished product playable in all browsers and mobile devices, and many STB and OTT platforms.
Featured Articles,
Posted 17 Apr 2018
RealNetworks CTO Reza Rassool discusses RealNetworks HD, a powerful, lightweight codec that's gained very substantial share in China and now is coming to the US. He also describes a report showing that his codec delivers better quality than HEVC.
Featured Articles,
Posted 17 Apr 2018
Streaming Media's Jan Ozer interviews Capella Systems' Ikuyo Yamada in the Capella booth at NAB and discusses HEVC, AV1, and Dolby Vision.
Featured Articles,
Posted 17 Apr 2018
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