Just one more sign that the pay-TV model—as we know it—is in for more than a little upheaval: A new report says content owners–like HBO, Disney and Fox–will play an increasingly large role in the growth of the encoding and transcoding market as they look for ways to go directly to consumers with their products. […]
Video streaming technology provider upLynk Wednesday said it has signed Disney/ABC Television as its first customer for its live linear streaming service, adding that Disney already has deployed its software to manage encoding and delivery of content for web, mobile and tablet streaming for the WATCH Disney apps: WATCH Disney Channel, WATCH Disney Junior and WATCH Disney […]
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. UpLynk came out of stealth mode in January, showing off its simplified HD adaptive streaming service, as well as its big partner: Disney/ABC.
Ericsson (ERIC), which already made news last week for rumored talks about acquiring Microsoft’s MediaRoom, is back Wednesday with more: the company said it would be debuting new support services at NAB 2013 aimed at helping broadcasters and content owners manage the evolving TV market environment. In a release announcing the new service, Ericsson said […]
Canadian media technology company Digital Rapids has scored a win with Internet and digital media service provider Terra, announcing Wednesday that the company will use DR’s Transcode Manager to prepare media assets for multiscreen VOD distribution for the company’s branded online news portal. Terra—which reaches about 100 million people monthly with entertainment, sports and news […]
Yes, I admit I am a Game of Thrones fan (thank you eldest son for pointing me to yet another hour of time I’ll never get back). And, I pay HBO each month to access its service to watch Thrones, old and new episodes. I’m pretty sure said son, who has never actually had his […]
There’s a lot of nail biting going on in TV network boardroom this week after a pair of appeals court judges ruled that Aereo—the micro-antenna based startup backed by Barry Diller et al.—agreed with U.S. District Court Judge Alison Nathan’s decision earlier this year to continue allowing Aereo to stream live TV via its nascent […]
Conviva CEO Darren Feher has some advice for cord cutters eagerly anticipating the day when HBO goes over the top to non-pay-TV subscribers: Don’t hold your breath. “The whole industry is doing a lot of experimentation in places and markets where they are trying to figure out what will work for the U.S. market,†Feher […]
