Seven leading Internet companies have formed the Alliance for Open Media – an open-source project that will develop next-generation media formats, codecs and technologies in the public interest. The Alliance’s founding members are Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix. The new Alliance is committing its collective technology and expertise to meet growing […]
Ericsson has renewed its playout services contract with ITV, the UK’s leading commercial television network. The contract, which has been extended until 2024, will see Ericsson continue to provide playout services for ITV’s portfolio of channels including ITV, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, ITV HD and CITV and their associated regional variants as well as ITV’s newest […]
Thomson Video Networks has introduced the latest release of its award-winning ViBE EM4000 premium HD/SD encoder featuring Flextream 2.0, the company’s statistical multiplexing technology. With support for Flextream 2.0, the EM4000 will enable operators to optimise bandwidth usage by including non-video components in a statistical multiplexing pool. In addition, the EM4000 now includes SCTE104 handling […]
Volicon has introduced a new accelerated VoD/OTT content generation workflow based on the Capture and Share applications for the company’s Observer Media Intelligence Platform. Leveraging these applications along with the platform’s content-recording capabilities, intuitive user interface, and seamless integration with edit and media asset management (MAM) systems, broadcasters can establish efficient content repurposing workflows, with […]
WISI, the German supplier of digital video and audio processing, broadband access and fibre optical solutions, has announced a significant investment in Inca Networks. The Canadian company is a provider of video delivery solutions for the contribution, real-time processing and monitoring of linear and multiscreen TV content. Among its customers are major pay-TV providers and […]
Vubiquity, a global provider of premium content services, has announced a long-term partnership with Turner Broadcasting to capture and process Turner’s C3 and D4 VoD content and distribute it to the On Demand market. Together the companies developed a first-of-its-kind, innovative product that automates, tags and identifies content for C3 capture in high resolution, mezzanine […]
ATEME has announced that TDC, Scandinavia’s leading provider of communications services, is to begin using TITAN File for OTT VoD, SVoD, TVoD and Playout file processing. The TITAN File encoder-transcoder is a truly virtualized software solution, based on Intel server class CPUs, with ultrafast high video quality processing without GPU or other hardware acceleration. TITAN […]
Cloud services for video specialist Brightcove has confirmed the general availability of the new Brightcove Video Cloud, the company’s flagship solution re-architected to simplify the complexity of next-generation online video distribution and publishing. The new Video Cloud incorporates a new HTML5 user interface, faster upload and playback, mobile publishing, and new custom analytics to scale […]
Big data integration software specialist Talend, has confirmed that Sky Deutschland, the leading pay-TV provider in Germany and Austria, is using the Talend Data Integration Platform to support Sky’s wide variety of entertainment services. Talend manages and streamlines the flow of critical information from back-end systems to front-end services that enable consumer access to entertainment […]
Verizon Digital Media Services now powers Loton Corp.’s new subsidiary LiveXLive, the dedicated live music-streaming network. With its end-to-end video workflow, Verizon Digital Media Services enables the video experience from ingest through delivery and distribution of LiveXLive’s streaming of the world’s leading music festivals, concerts and performances in full high-definition and with social media integration. […]