For those that track the content delivery networks, they are familiar with the idea that CDNs are trying to diversify their revenue by adding "value add services" to their portfolio. While that term is widely used by CDNs, and was originally coined by Akamai, I have yet to see any CDN define what it really […]
[Updated Sept. 4th 20102:Check out my new review at: “Roku 2 vs. Apple TV: How To Chose The Right $99 Streamer“] What’s better, the new Apple TV or the newly announced lineup of Roku boxes? That’s the question I keep getting asked now that both devices are in the market. Over the past week, I’ve […]
This morning, Brightcove and Akamai announced an alliance to work together giving Brightcove another CDN besides Limelight to deliver traffic over and gives Akamai customers the ability to use Brightcove’s video platform service. Unfortunately, when the deal was announced, instead of fellow bloggers being interested in getting the story accurate, many of them stated that […]
Each week I spend a lot of time trading emails with CEOs in the industry and simply due to time restraints, many of the conversations never go up on my blog. While probably half of what they tell me I'm not able to disclose anyway, there is a lot of information they share that I […]
With today's announcement by Hulu of their long awaited subscription service, Hulu Plus, it was only a matter of time before the blogsphere was quick to jump all over the news and suggest that Hulu is now a competitor to Netflix or that this some how gives consumers more reason to ditch cable. While it's […]
Microsoft has just announced an exclusive deal with ESPN which will bring over 3,500 live events a year to Xbox 360 users in HD. Content includes college basketball, college football, soccer, MLB, NBA, all four Grand Slam tennis tournaments and golf majors amongst others. ESPN just did a live demo from the E3 show using […]
A few days ago, we re-launched the StreamingMedia.com website with a new design, layout, navigation and whole host of technology changes on the back end. The former site was running using a very old database and CMS which have all been updated. The best part, the site now loads fast, is stable, the new nav […]