The conference sessions that accompanied this year’s TV Connect, which took place at London Olympia on March 19-21, provided many useful insights into where the industry is heading. Arguably, the b…
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British firm Zeebox to introduce its ‘augmented TV’ app in U.S. – LA Times
“The London firm Zeebox is poised to announce a deal to launch its well-regarded British television product, known as augmented television, in the U.S., giving users a rich, complex “second-screen” technology to enhance their TV viewing.”
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Windows Azure Media Services and the London 2012 Olympics
Earlier this year we announced Windows Azure Media Services. Windows Azure Media Services is a cloud-based PaaS solution that enables you to efficiently build and deliver media solutions to customers. It offers a bunch of ready-to-use services that enable the fast ingestion, encoding, format-conversion, storage, content protection, and streaming (both live and on-demand) of video. Windows Azure Media Services can be used to deliver solutions to any device or client – including HTML5, Silverlight, Flash, Windows 8, iPads, iPhones, Android, Xbox, and Windows Phone devices.
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Olympics website performance: 2012 top performers – Apica
“After two weeks of Olympic play and the continuous performance monitoring of Olympics-related websites, the results are in. The final medalists in the website performance category of the 2012 London Olympics are…”
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2012 Summer Olympics Internet video streaming is in the Limelight
The 2012 London Games requires the participation of multiple content delivery providers internationally in order to service intense demand for mobile and broadband video. Tempe, Arizona-based Limelight Networks is in the center of it.
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Forbidden Technologies FORscene wins major sports deal with YouTube
“Forbidden Technologies, the AIM quoted developer of the market leading cloud video platform FORscene, is pleased to announce that YouTube is using FORscene for a major sporting event being held in London this summer.
Forbidden announced in December 2011 that YouTube had licensed Forbidden Technologies’ FORscene platform.
FORscene is being integrated into a larger YouTube system for use by multiple YouTube clients for professional editing of dozens of live and near-live sports feeds this summer. FORscene provides the professional cloud editing and transcoding components of the system.”
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Amazon’s LoveFilm Strikes Exclusive Universal Pictures Streaming Deal – Hollywood Reporter
LONDON – Amazon.com’s streaming video service LoveFilm, sometimes called ‘the Netflix of Europe,’ said Wednesday that it has struck an exclusive multi-year digital licensing agreement with NBCUniversal for Universal Pictures films.”
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Interview: BBC’s Olympics will deliver an ‘online legacy’ – paidContent
“Phil Fearnley isn’t sure which will be the most used of the ‘four screens’ identified for delivering Olympics coverage this summer – Web, mobile, tablet or connected TV.
But the BBC News & Knowledge general manager is promising a buzzword right on-message with London games organisers themselves – ‘legacy’.”
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Virgin Media Pioneers — Videos — CODOC | 60SECOND PITCH2RICH: LAYERED WEB VIDEO
“We’re a young London start-up in a city that is really pushing tech. We’re currently developing an online video player that can overlay additional information and content over your web video.”
VOTE HERE: http://www.virginmediapioneers.com/video/guygunaratne/100371
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Aframe’s Cloud Video Production Network Goes Live In North America – Aframe Blog
” Aframe, the cloud video production platform designed to liberate the professional video production process, today announced that its US private cloud network is now live and actively supporting the company’s growing North American client base. Operational in London since 2010, Aframe’s private cloud network allows professional video creators to share, search and collaborate without on-site equipment or full-time staff, and only requiring an internet connection.”
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