Updated: The drawing is now closed. Sean Dunn from NY, NY is the winner. Thanks to the folks at Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM), and in conjunction with our recent Broadband Device Pavilion, I'm giving away a free subscription to MLB.TV along with MLB.TV's iPhone/iPad app, At Bat 11. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and one lucky winner will be picked at random on June 3rd. Good luck!
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At the Streaming Media East show, I did a presentation that highlighted the pros and cons of about a dozen streaming media devices in the market including Apple TV, Roku, Xbox 360, PS3, Boxee, TiVo, Wii, Logitech Revue, Sony SMP-N100, Western Digital WD TV Live and Live Hub. My slides from that presentation are now available for download and video of my presentation is below.
The takeaway from my presentation is that Apple TV is the weakest box on the market today and the Roku XDS and Xbox 360 are the strongest. For those looking for a device that acts as a media center hub, then the Boxee Box by D-Link and the Western Digital WD TV Live Hub are the best choices.
As for who will own the market in the long run, it’s too early to say. But you have to have three things in the market in order to win: you have to have device penetration and more importantly device adoption; people actually have to use the device, not just buy it. Second, you have to have the platform: there has to be a way for you to access all this content and get to all this content. And third, you actually have to have the content available.
If you’re interested in seeing a device matrix of all the streaming media devices on the market, along with their tech specs, you can get a copy of that here.
[Updated: You can always download the latest verison of the chart at www.StreamingMediaDevices.com] Two weeks ago, at the Streaming Media East show, we had the ultimate over-the-top video display we called the Broadband Device Pavilion. Attendees had the chance to get hands-on with more than three dozen devices and content platforms and we handed out a device matrix chart that listed all the devices tech specs and content platforms they support. You can now download the latest verison of the chart at www.StreamingMediaDevices.com
The chart was printed a few weeks before the show, and there have been a few changes since then, like the addition of the EPIX HD platform to some of the devices. We will be updating this chart a few times throughout the year and you can send any additions or errors you spot to me directly. We’ll also be doing another chart like this for Blu-ray players and possibly connected TVs.
In addition, many of the device and platform vendors were nice enough to give us some hardware devices and content subscriptions and I still have a few items left from the show that I will be giving away on the blog over the next few weeks. We’ll be doing the Broadband Enabled Device Pavilion again next year, and many even later in the year for our LA show. So if you are a CE vendor that wants to have your hardware showcased, please contact me.
A big thank you to the following companies who supported the pavilion and worked with us to make it happen: Samsung, Boxee, TiVo, Microsoft (Xbox), Roku, Logitech, Western Digital, MLB.TV, Netflix, Blockbuster, Hulu, VUDU, OnLive and HBO.
Corrections noted so far:
Updated 5/25: YouTube is no longer supported on the Roku. The Logitech Revue has DLNA support. The Wii has a browser.
Updated 6/30: The WD TV Live Plus does have USB Content Playback.
A lot of news came out during the CDN Summit and Streaming Media East shows last week and he's a quick recap of all the releases I saw.
Thanks to the hundreds of attendees and speakers for making this year's CDN Summit an overwhelming success. We had over 300 attendees from the telco, carrier, ISP, broadcast and vendor community presenting and discussing a wide range of topics. All of the presentations are now available for download at www.cdnsummit.com and we'll have all of the videos online shortly. For now, four videos are available:
I have a lot of blog posts to follow up on in the coming weeks including publishing my Q1 CDN pricing data, the market growth projections I highlighted for video and transparent caching as well as my thoughts on the federated CDN topic and reviewing a lot of the data and numbers that presenters shared during their presentations.
If you have any follow up questions from the CDN Summit, please don't hesitate to reach out to me and make sure to save the date for the 2012 CDN Summit, which will take place on Monday, May 14th, 2012.
On Wednesday May 11th, AOL's SVP of Video Ran Harnevo will be the keynote presenter at the Streaming Media East show in NYC. We'll be streaming Ran's keynote live on StreamingMedia.com starting just about 9:05am ET. Twitter hash tag: #SMEast
On Tuesday May 10th, HBO's co-president Eric Kessler will be the opening keynote presenter at the Streaming Media East show in NYC. We'll be streaming Eric's keynote live on StreamingMedia.com starting just about 9:05am ET. Twitter hash tag: #SMEast