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Conviva recently signed one of the longest deals in streaming media; a 6 year agreement with HBO to provide video optimization support for the Go product.

Until recently, TV Everywhere has been one of those oxymorons that also tended more toward flash than substance. An AT&T exec once told me “TV Everywhere is nowhere until it’s anywhere,” pointing out that the “anywhere” at the time meant “in your home.” But providers have been pushing that ring of availability out a bit, […]

Netflix has gotten a big boost from Richard Greenfield, an analyst at BTIG Research, who has stamped a BUY rating on the content aggregator and reset its price target to $250… a big journey from its current range, but still shy of the $300 heights it hit before its bubble burst. Why now? Greenfield says […]

You gotta love Liberty Media chief John Malone, one of the original cable cowboys who took the then-fledgling technology to the masses in the U.S. and around the world. Malone has a bee in his bonnet (well, several, actually, but more on that later): The rising costs of sports programming, which, he told CNBC, has […]

Uplynk is the company that’s responsible for the WatchDisney apps and their live streaming. Here’s a great example of a company that’s really optimized their technical solution to deliver live, in real time, with very little latency.

So, today’s BIg Rumor is that CBS is threatening to take its ball and go home, pull the plug on its over the air signal and go the cable route, a la Fox. Well, there are a lot of words that could describe how likely either of those two companies are to put themselves behind […]

Video streaming technology provider upLynk will be demoing a new live linear multiscreen streaming service at the 2013 NAB Show.

That thump you just heard was the other shoe dropping: Ericsson today announced it had acquired Microsoft’s MediaRoom and, in the process, become a more significant player in the ecosystem. For Microsoft, meanwhile, it means they can turn their full attention toward making the Xbox the center of their TV and IPTV strategy without any […]

Birds do it, bees do it… wait, wait, wait, wrong song. Intel wants to do it, Microsoft and Google could do it, Verizon is kinda doing it, and now, AT&T? No, not falling in love, but launching a streaming video service. Could it be the mythical Virtual MSO? AT&T, according to Variety, last month sent […]

Call it baby steps, but they’re big baby steps nonetheless. Cablevision has updated its Optimum for iPad app to allow users access to live liner content–albeit a very limited menu of content at the moment—outside their home WiFi network. The Long Island-based company said users of the app will be able to access news, weather […]

The first app, literally the first app, that I played with the morning I received my original Apple iPad (the weekend before NAB, by the way) was the ABC Player. And that was all it took, I was hooked. Simple, clean, easy to navigate. It was—and in many ways still is, the epitome of what […]

Ustream, a provider of live social video streaming, announced it will provide exclusive live video streaming for the upcoming Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in partnership with Superfly Presents, Bulldog DM and Springboard Productions.

There are a number of trends in the broadcast environment relating to the evolution of the codecs for compression and managing the workflow to support more channels and devices.

More and more people are taking advantage of online streaming to watch video content. It’s convenient, fast, and cost-effective … when it works.

While millions of cord cutters are eagerly awaiting their chance to subscribe to HBOGo, the CEO of the company that helps ensure that HBO’s over the top content looks good is skeptical about when that might happen. Darren Feher, the CEO of Conviva, thinks things will get worse for cord cutters before they get better.

March Madness has continued to manifest itself in record numbers digitally and on mobile devices during the 2013 tournament to date.

Live linear streaming should be a hot topic at this year’s NAB conference, and newcomer UpLynk is getting ahead of the pack by announcing today that it now offers live linear streaming.

Cord-cutting is only attractive if there’s lots of quality content and it’s not expensive. Both of those factors could be going away soon–or at lease be substantially diminished–according to Darren Feher, CEO of Conviva, who expects that higher fees and less content will become the norm as the online video space finds its footing.

Have you got “the best idea ever” for a streaming media service? You might just be nearing the catbird seat. (Psst! Intel, Google Fiber listen up!) A poll from Harris Interactive suggests that nearly 40% of U.S. adults in that prime 18-34 age group would be willing to leave their pay-TV service provider for a […]

I’m still recovering from “House of Cards,” “Mad Men” and “Walking Dead” marathons on Netflix, but I’m pretty sure that I’ll be ready to get back in the lounge chair for one more big event: Netflix has announced “Arrested Development,” all 15 episodes at once, is rolling out at 12:01 a.m., May 26, a Sunday […]