February 03, 2017

Featured News

Sky Paves the Way for OTT Future

The broadband-based service will be rolled out first in the UK, then in Italy, Germany, and Austria. There's no word yet on whether it would offer 4K content or include bandwidth to the home for 4K streaming.

84% of Pay TV Subs Would Cancel Due to a Poor Customer Experience

Content will get customers to take a look, cautions a Paywizard survey, but a good customer experience will keep them around.

Featured Articles

Virtualization for Media Publishers, CDNs, and Operators: Streaming Forum Preview

Telcos, CDNs, and broadcasters like Sky continue to move away from dedicated hardware and VM-based software architectures to fully virtualized micro-services, and this Streaming Forum session will explore current trends and strategies for the future

Ozer to Break Down HEVC Codecs, Royalties at Streaming Forum

Jan Ozer will share his test results comparing multiple HEVC codecs, and he'll also give his insights on royalties for HEVC, H.264, and MPEG-DASH in light of recent announcements from HEVC Advance and MPEG LA, as well as the possible implications of the Nokia-Apple lawsuit.

Industry News

Divitel awarded patent on two-way A/V accessibility technology

Method enables easy access to video messaging through existing hardware

AVerMedia's AVerCaster HEVC RS9280 brings 3G-SDI to professional 4K HEVC video

Versatile video capture, processing and streaming solution

Streamroot and GlobalDots Ink Worldwide Reseller Agreement for Hybrid-CDN Acceleration

Streamroot announced today that it has entered into an agreement by which GlobalDots will become a worldwide reseller of Streamroot’s industry-leading peer-accelerated delivery technology.

Irdeto and Harmonic Team Up to Support CSA3, The Most Secure Scrambling Algorithm on the Market, to Enable Premium Ultra HD Content Distribution

First-of-its-Kind Integrated CSA3 Solution Provides Advanced Encryption Technology Empowering Pay TV Operators with the Freedom to Innovate