“To take advantage of the skyrocketing growth in Android devices, online video technology provider Ooyala recently launched a new video tool tailored for Android, says Sean Knapp, Chief Technology Officer at Ooyala during an interview with Beet.TV at NAB. Hook is a new video app that brings premium video to Android devices.”
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“A main event took place this week the NAB at Las Vegas. There was some news around this event. Here is my selection…”
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“Brightcove Inc. (NASDAQ: BCOV), a leading global provider of cloud content services, today announced at the 2013 NAB Show that it has expanded support for TV Everywhere authentication (TVE) through robust integrations with Adobe Pass and Akamai’s Sola Vision Identity Services, enabling cross-device, authenticated video experiences for both the Web and native mobile applications. These integrations make it easy for TV broadcasters to provide more access on more devices to premium video programming for existing subscribers of cable and satellite services, helping these organizations to grow their reach and deliver ad-supported video content to authenticated audiences on every screen.”
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“NAB 2013 has seen another update to the do-all encoding application Sorenson Squeeze. This release takes the app to version 9. Some of the signature new features include an enhanced interface, pre-roll and post-roll, optimized encoding for HTML5 and closed captioning support. It’s also worth noting that the Squeeze interface gets a bit of a refresh as well.”
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One Hundred Connected Box Giveaway at NAB Lets Operators Test for Free the Dune HD TV-102AW with Integrated Social TV and Complete SaaS Delivery Platform
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Amberfin introduces new application specific modules, new captioning solutions, new enterprise-class features and support for upcoming IMF format.
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Telestream demonstrates their cable/IPTV transcoder, file-based workflow orchestration, live streaming production and partner solutions at this year’s NAB Show.
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We’ve been talking about ACR (automatic content recognition) in blogs and at conferences for quite some time now (most recently, the 10th prediction for second screen trends in 2013). For many players in the ecosystem (including consumers), the ability to trigger an event on the second screen based on what is happening on the first screen is somewhat of a holy grail of enabling technology capabilities. But as we discussed at NAB in April and at IBC in September, this has so far remained elusive in terms of real scale for consumers reached because of the challenges inherent in each of the various approaches.”
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“Last month at the NAB show, we spoke with Ellen Camloh about the new product and the explosion of live programming of NewTek customers, which she says has reached 60K streams per week.”
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This has to be the most exciting period in the history of television test and measurement equipment. With the interest in 3DTV during the last several years and the recent focus on “over-the-top” (OTT) video from sources such as YouTube and Netflix, test gear was everywhere at the 2012 NAB Show.
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