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Save The Date: Online Video Networking Event In NYC, May 10th
On Monday May 10th, we'll be teaming up with the NY Video Meetup group to once again host their monthly event at the Hilton Hotel in midtown, the night before the Streaming Media East show opens. Last year we had over 500 attendees watch six promising local online video startups demo their products followed by networking at the Bridges Bar... more
Adobe Preparing To Launch Multicasting Support For Flash
Back in October, Abobe announced a really long list of new functionality that would be supported in Flash Player 10.1, due out sometime this year. One of those features would be the long awaited support for multicasting that is essential to the way many enterprise organizations deliver video. While music, movies and game content delivered over CDNs in a unicast... more
Test Results Published Show Flash Is Not a "CPU Hog" Like Apple Claims
There's been a lot of discussion on the blogsphere over the last few weeks due to Steve Jobs being quoted as saying one of the reasons Apple won't support Flash video on the upcoming iPad was due to Flash being a "CPU Hog". Apple's workaround to Flash video is to use HTML5 and that encouraged some to even suggest that... more
Cisco Preparing To Launch New Flip Cameras
Last week someone sent me specs for new Flip cameras Cisco is preparing to launch around the NAB time frame. While I've been able to confirm that new cameras are in fact on the way, I have not been able to verify that the specs I have been sent are completely accurate, so I'm not going to publish them. But... more
PS3 To Get More Movies: Sony Signs Deal With All Six Studios For Movie Streaming
(Updated Below) 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.,... 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
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
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
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