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- Akamai Acknowledges It's Not Delivering HD Video to the iPhone
- Dan Rayburn submits: Earlier in the month, during Akamai's AKAM webcast about their HD network, Tim Siglin pointed out on his blog that Akamai's claim that they could deliver HD video to the iPhone AAPL wasn't accurate. Tim had a lot of back and forth emails with Akamai, which...
- External links 2009-10-18
- More on Microsoft's Xbox Upgrade Streaming Technology
- Dan Rayburn submits: Microsoft MSFT has given me a few more details surrounding how they are managing to stream 1080p videos on the Xbox 360 with consumers only needing a 4Mbps connection. Microsoft said that Zune Video on Xbox LIVE takes advantage of Microsoft's Smooth Streaming technology, which is...
- External links 2009-10-21
- It's Definite: Netflix Streaming Coming Soon to Nintendo's Wii
- Dan Rayburn submits: Last week I received some images that showed Netflix streaming on a Wii console. I didn't run with the story at the time as I didn't know if the images were legit and it's taken me until today to confirm they are in fact real. I'm...
- External links 2009-10-29
- Sony's Day-And-Date Strategy Is Expensive
- Dan Rayburn submits: Starting on December 8, Sony plans to make the movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs available for streaming, at 720p, a month ahead of the retail release, to those who have broadband-enabled Sony SNE TVs and Blu-ray players. The catch? It will cost users $24.95...
- External links 2009-11-10
- KIT Digital's FeedRoom Acquisition: Lots of Potential, Lots Of Questions
- Dan Rayburn submits: Monday morning, KIT digital KITD officially announced it has acquired NYC based The FeedRoom in an all stock deal valued at around $9.8M. While that's only about 1.5x The FeedRoom's $6M in revenue, the deal will probably end up being closer to 2x revenue since The...
- External links 2009-10-06
- Cisco Has No Plans To Build Service-Based CDN For Video Delivery
- Dan Rayburn submits: Back in April, I reported that two colocation companies had contacted me to say that Cisco CSCO was acquiring colocation space in various third party data centers in the U.S. for what Cisco was calling a new content delivery network. While I don't know Cisco's plans...
- External links 2009-10-07
- Compuware to Acquire Gomez: Will This Change How CDNs Measure Performance?
- Dan Rayburn submits: Wednesday morning, Compuware CPWR announced an agreement to acquire Gomez in an all cash transaction valued at $295M and expects the deal to close next month. I last wrote about Gomez a year ago when they launched their new streaming media monitoring service called Active Streaming...
- External links 2009-10-08
- Silverlight Is Beating Flash When It Comes to DRM Protection
- Dan Rayburn submits: In an interview this week in the Wall Street Journal, Adobe's ADBE CEO said that with the recent round of layoffs, Adobe would be better focused to grow its online video business. That's good news to hear from Adobe because being at the top requires a...
- External links 2008-12-07
- Online Video Format Market Heats Up as Microsoft Introduces Silverlight 3
- Dan Rayburn submits: Scott Guthrie at Microsoft MSFT posted more details on his blog about the adoption of Silverlight 2 and gave some details on new features in Silverlight 3, slated to be released next year. While I had previously heard Microsoft say 1 in 4 machines on the...
- External links 2008-11-17
- What Will It Take for Microsoft and Adobe to Agree on an HD Web Video Standard?
- Dan Rayburn submits: For an entire industry that defines itself based on the word "quality", today there is still no agreed upon standard for what classifies HD quality video on the web. Both Microsoft MSFT and Adobe ADBE have different views on what classifies a video as HD and...
- External links 2009-03-24
- Adobe: Flash May Come to TV, But It Won't Have Many Eyeballs
- Dan Rayburn submits: Yesterday morning, Adobe ADBE announced that it is working to bring the Flash Platform to the living room via broadband enabled TVs, set-top boxes and other devices and are already working with multiple content, OEM and System on Chips [SoC] vendors to make this happen. While...
- External links 2009-04-20
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- Roku Adds HD Streaming and SD Upscaling, But Drives Netflix's Costs Up
- Dan Rayburn submits: As expected, yesterday morning Roku announced that the Roku player is now capable of playing hundreds of HD quality movies from Netflix NFLX. While my Roku player got the software update over the weekend, Roku says all players will be updated over the next few weeks....
- External links 2008-12-22
- Akamai, Limelight to Deploy P2P for Higher Quality, Not Cost Savings
- Dan Rayburn submits: While there's been a lot of hype about peer-assisted technology [P2P] over the past few years, in reality, the technology has gotten very little adoption when it comes to being used to distribute video, let alone streaming. Today, most of the content being delivered via P2P...
- External links 2009-07-01
- Google/ ON2 Deal: Debunking Myths, Questioning VP8's Quality
- Dan Rayburn submits: Following up on my earlier post entitled "Google's Acquisition Of On2 Not A Big Deal, Here's Why", here are some more thoughts on the subject. While clearly no one, including me, truly knows what Google GOOG plans to do with On2 ONT, a lot of potential...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Organizing Networked Conferencing
- Networked conferencing brings people inside and outside an organization together quickly and easily, wherever they are located. Although not as effective as live meetings, networked conferencing brings huge benefits in terms of convenience and time savings, as well as substantial savings on the costs of meeting arrangements and travel. Networked...
- Articles 2007-02-28
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