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.
Read MoreFile-delivery specialist, Brevity Ventures has launched a new desktop app that will allow users to simultaneously transport, transcode and transfer files to and from any location with a computer. The product is designed to speed up the movement of large files and make it easier for users to collaborate
Read MoreSorenson 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreCancer 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 […]
Read MoreSony 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!
Read MoreAccording 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.
Read MoreSony 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.
Read MoreSony, 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.
Read MoreSony 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.
Read MoreToday’s TVs and other devices have decompression software on a chip inside the device.  Sony’s new 4K TVs and accompanying 4K media player use compression from tech company eyeIO, but the media player sidesteps the problem by downloading content instead of streaming it.
Read MoreTV Everywhere? Hardly. Four years after Comcast Chief Executive Officer Brian Robert and Time Warner Cable CEO Jeff Bewkes introduced their concept of TV of the future at the Cable Show in Los Angeles, a service that would deliver a plethora of content to subscribers at any time anywhere, the initiative remains stalled.
Read MoreLive-streaming is a nice additive to the concert-going experience, but will it ever replace sold-out arenas? How you approach the world of live-streamed concerts is probably mostly a matter of personal taste. Some people would never trade the rock, sweat and tears of a live event for a calm, on-screen viewing experience.
Read MoreFor the content on the service, Sony is using 4K encoders from EyeIO but isn’t divulging details of the compression rate for its 4K video. However, according to Sony, the 10 movies will take up about 400 gigabytes total on the FMP-X1, or an average of 40 GB per pic.
Read MoreContent encoded at eyeIO’s Palo Alto headquarters are full 4K UltraHD, 3840×2160 resolution and include support for extended gamut color (xvYCC). eyeIO’s certified, 4K UltraHD offering has been refined over the course of the last two years. eyeIO’s technology is said to be 50 percent more efficient than MPEG-4/H.264.
Read MoreThe American Cancer Society has announced construction of a Hope Lodge in Salt Lake City, which will provide accommodations to cancer patients and their caregivers who face long commutes or who must travel from other states to receive treatment from Salt Lake’s premier cancer centers.
Read MoreI stopped by eyeIO offices to get a demonstration of some of the 4K content. What I found convinced me more than ever that online delivery will lead the ultraHD charge. However, regardless of 4Ks fortunes advanced video codecs like eyeIO’s are a game-changer.
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