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PS3 To Get More Movies: Sony Signs Deal With All Six Studios For Movie Streaming
Sony just announced that 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros have all agreed to allow Sony to stream their movies over the PlayStation Network to users of the PS3. The service, which launched today, is only available in the U.S. but will be expanded to consumers in U.K., France, Germany,... more
ESPN To Use MLB To Stream All Their Events, Drops Support For Move Networks
Yesterday, ESPN announced that when ESPN360.com relaunches on April 4th as ESPN3, Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) will take over all of the technical support and infrastructure requirements for the new site. EPSN3 plans to broadcast more than 3,500 games this year and will now rely on MLBAM to handle all of the video workflow using the same platform... more
Enterprise Webcasting Provider IVT Announces Jim McGovern As New CEO
This morning, SaaS based webcasting platform provider IVT announced the appointment of Jim McGovern as the company's new CEO. Jim replaces Greg Pulier who was acting as the interim CEO after former CEO Phillip Whalen stepped down last year. Jim was most recently the CEO of itzbig, an interactive job board and he spent six years as CEO of Marketwire.... more
A Detailed Look At VUDU's Streaming Technology, And What It Means To Walmart
When Walmart announced it had acquired VUDU, quite a few discussions were taking place on the web suggesting that Walmart would now need to setup a data center to be able to handle the delivery of videos or that Walmart wasn't going to want to support VUDU's P2P based technology. Since neither of those assumptions are accurate, I thought it... more
Blockbuster Won't Survive: CEO Says "Conservative Approach" Required For Digital
Eight months ago I wrote a post entitled "Ten Years Later, Blockbuster Still Lacks A Digital Media Strategy" where I outlined some of the ways that Blockbuster has faltered with their strategy for the digital distribution of movies. After the post, I heard from some angry shareholders who wanted to argue with me about how the company would turn it... more
CDNs Will Challenge Akamai For Value Add Services: CDNetworks The Latest
While many content delivery vendors continue to add new services tied into the video ecosystem, CDN vendors as a whole have been very slow to diversify their product portfolio outside of delivering video, software and small objects. For a long time, Akamai has been the only game in town for services tied to commerce and application acceleration and has dominated... more
SaaS Based Transcoding Company mPOINT Relaunches As Panvidea
This morning, SaaS based transcoding provider mPOINT announced a re-launch and re-branding of the company which is now called Panvidea. Originally founded in late 2007, the company has been pretty quiet in the space and hasn't done much talking about their solution or given out many details on the company. With today's re-launch, the company now plans to start marketing... more
Adobe To Release Support For HTTP Flash Streaming Next Month
Back in October, Adobe announced that sometime in 2010 they would provide support for HTTP streaming enabling CDNs to leverage their existing HTTP infrastructure and cache technologies for video delivery. The platform, called "project Zeri", will provide support for all Flash Codecs, support adaptive bit‐rate switching, support live and on-demand delivery, enable the protection of content and will include full... more
Looking For Speakers: HTML5 And Web Video Standards
I think it's a safe bet that one of the most popular panels at the Streaming Media East show in May will be on the topic of HTML5 and the the debate on whether it will impact on the video market any time soon. I'm looking for some really good speakers for this panel who want to talk about the... more
Akamai To Become The Primary CDN For Netflix, But At A Very Low Price
While Netflix has always had a dual-vendor approach for their streaming delivery by using CDNs Limelight and Level 3, in the beginning of the year Netflix continues to move away from Level 3 and will be taking just over half of their traffic to Akamai. While this is clearly good news for Akamai, the price point at which Akamai is... more
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