“On a beautiful warm evening in Palo Alto, California, the Google TV team hosted their first ever meetup and Hangout On Air at the Sony Store in the Stanford Shopping Center. Nearly 200 of you came out to join us and geeked out on new and upcoming products. It was a night of great conversation, food named after Android platforms (Ice Cream Sandwiches & Gingerbread cookies), schwag giveaways, and some awesome prizes.”
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“Netflix plans to roll out later this year a subscription plan enabling multiple users within a household to stream content on different devices, CFO David Well told an investor group.”
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“Google still believes it can wrap its massive Internet arms around TV — even after consumers spurned its freshman effort as clunky and not very useful.
Two years after the company launched an ambitious strategy to meld Web search, online video and apps with traditional television, Google TV has failed to take off. Indeed, one of Google’s initial marquee hardware partners, Logitech, abandoned its Google TV set-top last year because of dismal sales, telling Wall Street it burned $100 million on the effort.”
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“Streaming Media East Booth 202 – Mixmoov SAS, the company behind Mixmoov – the premier Cloud Video Editing solution today announced support for full HD video. Users can import high definition video into the editor from multiple sources, and create videos within the intuitive video editor interface. Produced videos can be published in HD quality (720p and 1080p) to multiple destinations.
“We continue to expand our partnerships with leading online video platform providers and are proud to be associated with thePlatform.”
Mixmoov also announced a new partnership with thePlatform, the leading online video management and publication company. Mixmoov and thePlatform will work together to bring cloud video editing to customers of mpx, the video management solution of thePlatform.”
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“In our previous post, we explored the evolution of multi-screen and the emergence of new network configurations, including DVB + OTT. In this post, we will share our thoughts on a few of the innovative technologies available to augment these networks from a Quality of Experience (QoE) and security perspective.
We have recently observed an increasing number of operators relying on adaptive rate streaming (ARS) to support the development of new OTT video service architectures. This is in no small part due to ARS’ ability to quickly and cost-effectively take operators over-the-top, and add interactive services to previously broadcast-only pay TV networks.”
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