Brevity has introduced its new Brevity Desktop product, a free and easy-to-download application to allow users to quickly receive and send video assets to and from any desktop or laptop using file transport acceleration, enabling seamless collaboration with anyone.
MUMBAI: Verizon Digital Media Services has acquired the assets and operations of upLynk, a technology and television cloud company. The move is a part of Verizon’s expansion plans to efficiently and quickly deliver live events, linear television and video on demand.
Verizon has acquired a startup called UpLynk. UpLynk is a startup that makes video streaming easier. UpLynk is a software company that helps programmers and pay TV providers with “TV Everywhere†strategies.
Today, Verizon announced its acquisition of upLynk, a company with a unique cloud-based solution that uses adaptive bitrate technology to stream live and on-demand video. I wrote about upLynk earlier in the year when it first launched, as well as in a new TDG report, Live Linear Encoding – A Primer.
Verizon has been talking to Intel about buying the chipmaker’s Web TV business. But in the meantime, it is buying other digital TV tech: The telcosays it has purchased  upLynk, a startup that makes it easier to stream video on the Web.
Some companies hit the ground running. In January, 2013, UpLynk, which provides simplified live and on-demand HD adaptive streaming for premium partners, came out of stealth mode. It already had a giant win of a customer with Disney/ABC. Today, Verizon Digital Media Services announced that it has acquired UpLynk for an undisclosed amount, adding UpLynk’s technology to its portfolio.
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) said Wednesday that it acquired upLynk, the streaming video technology provider that Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) uses to manage video encoding and delivery for TV Everywhere apps such as Watch Disney Channel.
Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) announced this morning that it has acquired upLynk, which offers content providers an innovative cloud-based adaptive streaming platform for multi-device TV Everywhere distribution. upLynk gained wide visibility earlier this year when it announced that Disney was using it to power the Watch Disney apps, ABC player and ABC Family player.
Verizon Media Services (VMS) announced today that it has purchased upLynk, the cloud-based streaming video solution. upLynk is best known as the power behind the Watch Disney apps, and in particular the newest affiliate-driven Watch ABC. upLynk’s unique architecture and business approach was the reason Disney selected upLynk for the service, and the reason Verizon Media Services purchased […]
Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS), a division of Verizon Communications focused on cloud-based video service delivery, is looking to scale up its online video and TV Everywhere capabilities via the acquisition of upLynk, a startup founded in 2010 that is powering the suite of Watch Disney apps, as well as Watch ABC.
Sorenson Media, a company that specializes in video encoding and workflow systems, has hired online video vet Marcus Liassides as president and CEO. He succeeds Peter Csathy, who has since joined Manatt Digital Media Ventures, but will maintain an advisory role at Sorenson, according to a spokeswoman.
The American Cancer Society of Utah’s Hope Gala is just around the corner. It’s a time when the community pitches in to help cancer patients in the Beehive State. Money raised will help fund programs such as Look Good, Feel Better, which gives cancer patients free beauty products and advice.
A national, long-term study researching the causes of cancer is looking for volunteers from Utah. The American Cancer Society will be following 300,000 participants from around the nation for the Cancer Prevention Study-3.
Cancer researchers are tackling a tough topic and asking Utah residents to help. Unlike much of the ongoing research to find a cure, a new nationwide study — backed by the American Cancer Society — aims to give physicians, patients and the public a better understanding of how cancer is caused, perhaps uncover more effective prevention […]
Sony released a 4K movie store which fueled concerns about bandwidth caps on broadband connections. EyeIO is handling the encoding and, if what they showed me holds up, the concerns could be overblown. Sony worked with musician Kurt Hugo Schneider to create a unique music video featuring cello with coke bottle accompaniment!
According to Sony, the 4K movie titles will each take up 45 to 60 gigabytes, allowing users download and store up to 50 movies on the company’s FMP-X1 4K set-top. Sony’s using an encoding system from startup Eye IO to compress the video, but has declined to specify the compression rate.
Sony is trying to keep bandwidth requirements in check using proprietary compression encoding technology developed by Eye IO, but the new 4K downloading service could wreak havoc on emerging usage-based broadband service policies that charge extra when customers exceed their monthly consumption limits.
Sony, which is using compression technology from Palo Alto-based eyeIO, obviously thinks otherwise and believes that it has timed everything right — the bandwidth availability and compression technology are both ready for 4K content and screens.
Sony has developed the FMP-X1 4K media player to provide 4K content for its 4K UltraHD TVs and to cope with streaming 4K’s high bandwidth demands, the company has licensed EyeIO’s UltraHD compression encoding technology.
