There are a lot of streaming media devices out in the market right now from tablets and game consoles to stand-alone streaming boxes and connected TVs. While I have, use and test consumer streaming services across more than 50 devices, there are a few new devices that have just come out or will be coming […]
In conjunction with our Streaming Media West show, taking place Oct. 30-31 in Los Angeles, we are launching a brand new conference that will focus on video deployments within the enterprise and education verticals. The new show is called the Enterprise Video Conference and we’ve just launched the website at EnterpriseVideoConference.com and have opened the […]
I’m pleased to announce that in conjunction with our Streaming Media West show, taking place Oct. 30-31 in Los Angeles, we will be launching a brand new conference focused on video deployments within the enterprise and education verticals. While a portion of the content at our East and West shows have always included topics pertaining […]
It seems a week can’t go buy without my RSS feed being full of articles talking to the demise of the TV medium and its business model. This in the face of record profits by operators like Comcast, reports from cable operators of no subscriber losses of any significance and MSO’s seeing their average revenue […]
Thanks to everyone who helped make last week's Content Delivery Summit such a success. The rooms were packed, the presentations and discussions on-point and I heard a lot of very positive feedback from the attendees. Lots of great information was shared and various CDN technologies showcased. The summit will be back for it's 5th year […]
The College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Video & Content Platforms Research and Advance Development Division at Cisco have published a white paper on HTTP adaptive streaming. The paper focuses on the problem of competing video players and describes how the typical behavior of an adaptive streaming player in its Steady-State, […]
I'm working on placing speakers for the East show, so I'm a bit behind on blogging this week, but there have been a lot of really interesting news stories over the past few days. Here's what I've found most interesting and I've tried to highlight ones that didn't get picked up as much and might […]