The call for speakers is now open for the 2011 Streaming Media West show taking place Nov. 8-9th at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. All submissions must be made through our website and the deadline to submit is June 30th. I typically get 10x the number of submissions that I can use, so please make sure to get your submission in before the deadline and if you are a vendor submitting to speak, your submission must include a customer.

I am always looking for moderators who want to help organize quality sessions at the show. If you want to be involved in that capacity, please email me directly with your background, what session topic you have in mind and the names of companies that you would like to have on your session.

Also, while I will be planning the conference agenda for the 2011 Streaming Media West show, I will not be able to attend the show in-person this year. As a result, I am looking to hire a few individuals who can help assist with the conference program on-site, making sure speakers are in the right rooms, sessions get started on time and assist in keeping things flowing smoothly. If you are interested in one of these paying positions, please contact me directly with details on your background.

We're in the early planning stages of the show, so if you have an idea, want to see us incorporate something you have seen at other shows, know of a way you want to be involved, or would like a place to organize a local Meetup at our event, now is the time to reach out and share your ideas.

StreamingMedia.com is pleased to announce that in conjunction with the 2011 Streaming Media West show in LA, we will be hosting a new two-day event called the HTML5 Video Summit. This new conference will take the place of the Online Video Platform Summit and will be dedicated to covering the topic of HTML5 and video from a developers point of view. The two-day summit will feature one track that will give instructions on:

• Encoding Video For HTML5; Building an HTML5 Video Player; Encoding Video for iDevices; Debunking HTML5 Video Myths; HTML5 And Web Video Standards; Video Advertising and HTML5; and much more!

The summit will also include a showcase portion of the event for content owners and developers to come present their HTML5 video related offerings and apps and demo what they have built. We're working on building the website for the summit now (www.html5videosummit.com) and will have more details online shortly. In the mean time, the call for speakers is now open for the HTML5 Video Summit and Streaming Media West show and you can submit your request to speak online.

We're looking to work with as many organizations as possible on the summit, so if you are part of a HTML5 developers group, standards body or news outlet that is dedicated to covering the HTML5 subject, we'd love to hear from you and see how you might want to be involved.

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!

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.

• PeerApp Caching supports Netflix with Latest Software Release
• HBO Selects Level 3 as a CDN Provider for HBO GO Mobile App Delivery
• Unicorn Media Announces Support For Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming
• Akamai and Riverbed to Accelerate Applications over Hybrid Cloud Networks
• Highwinds Launches StrikeTracker 2.0 Beta with New Features and Enhanced Analytics
• Live Streaming to All Devices Now Available Via LiveTranscoding.com
• MediaPlatform's Enterprise Online Video Platform Goes Mobile
• RealGravity Partners with MetaCafe to Syndicate Original Video Content
• ClickStreamTV Unveils ClickStreamTV 5.0
• Wowza Responds to Legal Action by Adobe Systems
• Zencoder Unveils Cloud-based Batch Video Encoding Feature
• MIXMOOV unveils new features and partnership with TWISTAGE at Streaming Media East 2011
• DBG Adds ASq Consumer ChoiceTool to Advertising Pre-Roll Arsenal
• CDN In A Box Launches Simple Solution To Speed Up Websites Using Google App Engine
• Limelight Networks Acquires Web and Application Acceleration Technology Innovator AcceloWeb
• PeerApp Launches UBInsight Analytics Tool to Help Operators Monetize Over-the-Top (OTT) Content
• BurstPoint Networks Expands Conference Point Capabilities to Maximize Live Streaming in the Enterprise
• AT&T Targets Close To $1 Billion Of Investment To Deploy Global Network-Based Cloud And Mobility Solutions For Businesses
• 3Crowd Revolutionizes Content Delivery; Puts the Power Of CDN Technology In the Hands Of Everyone
• Wowza Media Systems and EZDRM Align to Offer DRM Integration for Smooth Streaming to PlayReady-Enabled Devices
• VBrick Delivers Comprehensive Solution to Extend HD Streaming Video Across Distributed Enterprise Environments

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:

• Keynote: Comcast Outlines the Rapid Growth of Online Video
• Keynote: Cisco says Federated CDN is the Future of Content Delivery
• Demos: Transparent Caching Platforms
• Netflix Impact: Panel Eyes Video Distribution and TV Everywhere

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.