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Elemental to showcase latest multiscreen solutions at ANGA COM

Elemental Technologies, the supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has announced plans to showcase its advanced video processing solutions at the ANGA COM Exhibition & Congress in Cologne, Germany June 4-6. Solutions from Elemental are widely adopted across the media industry and help pay TV operators, content programmers, production studios and sports broadcasters […]

May 30, 2013

Social recommendations tops for mobile video discovery

American mobile video watchers are almost twice as likely to watch videos shared by friends as they are via web search, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of web TV content sharing site Telly. The study – conducted online in April among over 2,000 US adults – reveals that 78 million […]

May 28, 2013

blinkx brings video to Tizen

blinkx, the video search engine, has announced a dedicated blinkx app, as well as an open source blinkx Video Player for the Tizen community.  Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform for mobile devices. The blinkx app, available through the Tizen store, will replicate the look and feel of the recently re-launched blinkx.com, tapping […]

May 22, 2013

Canby Telcom selects Elemental

Elemental Technologies, a supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has announced that Canby Telcom of Oregon has chosen Elemental systems to help with creation of a channel on the Roku streaming platform for OTT delivery of local broadcast channels to subscribers. The Canby channel on Roku augments the operator’s existing triple-play services with […]

May 22, 2013

Cannes Film Festival chooses Telestream 
Episode

Telestream, the provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, has announced that its Episode Engine professional video encoding application has been selected for the third year in a row to encode all Web videos for the Festival de Cannes. Episode was chosen for its ability to streamline the entire video encoding and delivery process, […]

May 17, 2013

Multiscreen video via residential gateways a growing trend

Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its latest Residential Gateway Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey. “Operators continue to morph their fixed broadband network strategies to focus not only on the size of the connection to the subscriber, but also on the services and revenue these broadband connections can deliver. Residential gateways are […]

May 16, 2013

Mobile TV and video viewers to top 2bn

Recent findings from Juniper Research suggest that by 2017, 2 billion mobile and tablet users will watch TV and video on their devices. This is attributed to the growing popularity of short and easily shared video clips, and the increased global uptake of connected devices with faster processors and better displays. The Mobile/Tablet TV & […]

May 15, 2013

BrightcoveVideo Cloud Live

Brightcove, a global provider of cloud content services, has unveiled Brightcove Video Cloud Live, a multi-bitrate live streaming module for the Video Cloud Studio that allows marketers and media companies to deliver high-quality, live video events across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and connected TVs. Within a familiar Video Cloud workflow, customers will be able to manage […]

May 15, 2013

YouTube confirms paid channel programme

YouTube has revealed details of enhancements to its partner programme that enables content creators to earn revenue for their creativity. Responding to requests for more flexibility in monetising and distributing content, the video-sharing site is launching a pilot programme for a small group of partners that will offer paid channels on YouTube with subscription fees […]

May 10, 2013By Colin Mann

Toshiba and Rovi to launch DivX certified TVs

Rovi, the digital entertainment expert, has announced that Toshiba is launching a range of DTVs Certified for DivX Plus Streaming. The latest agreement will help increase the reach of Rovi’s advanced adaptive streaming format and enable Toshiba DTVs to support entertainment services from over-the-top providers such as KNOWHOW Movies by Dixons Retail in the UK. […]

May 8, 2013