Last May, at the Content Delivery Summit event I organize each year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced support for dynamic content delivery, also referred to in the industry as dynamic site acceleration (DSA). (video presentation here). Since the launch, Amazon has been pretty quiet on what they have been working on so I spent some […]
Last year, NBC Sports failed in their execution of the first Super Bowl webcast and this time around, CBSSports.com isn’t doing any better. Tonight’s webcast has really bad video quality, lots of pixelation and a stream that looks to be encoded at less than 1Mbps. The webcast player won’t load the Twitter feed, which is […]
[Updated Dec. 27 2017: Former KIT Digital CEO found guilty of manipulating shares] [Updated Sept. 8 2015: Former KIT Digital CEO and CFO Arrested: Charged With Accounting Fraud] Industry vendor KIT digital has had a lot of problems of late, but it looks as if it is about to get worse. Over the past few weeks, […]
Now in its fifth year, my special Content Delivery Summit is a one-day conference designed to bring together telecom carriers, service providers, content owners, and industry vendors for a detailed look at CDN platforms for the delivery of video and content acceleration. The Content Delivery Summit (#cdnsummit) is the most focused show in the industry […]
At the Streaming Media West show next week, (#smwest) social TV and smart TV guru Jeremy Toeman (see his Future of Smart TV news feed), who is also the CEO of Dijit, is moderating an entire track on the challenges cable, studio and digital distribution executives face when it comes to the connected TV landscape. […]
For content owners that want to get their live event-based streaming content on mobile phones and tablets, many are quickly finding out that getting it to Android devices is extremely challenging. Unlike Apple’s iOS platform, Google has yet to provide an easy way to get live video to Android devices and to date, hasn’t detailed […]
This morning Sony announced that for the second year in a row, their PlayStation3 system can be used to stream the NFL Sunday Ticket from DirecTV. The bad news, those who don’t have the NFL Sunday Ticket Max plan will once again have to pay $300 if they want access to the games. Even those […]