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Limelight API expansion speeds up service development

Limelight Networks, a provider of edge cloud services, has expanded the management and configuration capabilities of its suite of services with new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and web portal offerings. With these new capabilities in addition to existing APIs and Software Development Kits, developers now have more power to manage and monitor services across Limelight’s edge cloud […]

August 21, 2019

MovieLabs, studios share media creation vision

Motion Pictures Laboratories (MovieLabs), together with member studios, has published a new white paper presenting an industry vision for the future of media creation technology by 2030. The paper, The Evolution off Media Creation, jointly authored by MovieLabs and technology leadership teams from Hollywood studios, paints a bold picture of future technology and discusses the […]

August 20, 2019

ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 selects Dalet Galaxy five

Dalet, a provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, has signed a deal with Austrian private broadcaster group ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 to fully revamp their media operation with the agile Dalet Galaxy five Media Asset Management (MAM), Workflow Orchestration and Editorial platform. The Dalet Galaxy five installation will equip the broadcaster with […]

August 20, 2019

Telestream completes Tektronix video combination

Digital media tools and workflow solutions provider Telestream has confirmed that the combination of Telestream and Tektronix’s video test, monitoring and quality assurance solutions for the broadcast and digital media markets into Telestream has been completed. “Customers should be comfortable that any investment in Telestream or Tektronix video monitoring technology is sound. If we are […]

July 22, 2019

ProSiebenSat.1, Discovery choose 3SS to power Joyn

3 Screen Solutions (3SS), a provider of software solutions for STB and multiscreen digital entertainment, has been chosen to provide development, engineering and integration for Joyn, the new entertainment streaming service co-owned by ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery. Joyn (formerly 7TV) features Germany’s biggest range of free-TV content, including live TV and catch-up, with live streams from […]

July 9, 2019

Blackbird signs A+E Networks

Cloud video platform Blackbird has agreed what it describes as a significant six-figure, multi-year deal with A+E Networks. A+E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and Disney, will incorporate Blackbird within its media infrastructure for a range of key video workflows. The use of Blackbird is designed to deliver major productivity enhancements across A+E […]

June 20, 2019

ENMA Taps ATEME for Africa Cup of Nations

ATEME, an emerging player in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable, DTH, IPTV and OTT, has announced that Egyptian National Media Authority (ENMA) has selected ATEME’s converged video headend to cover the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, scheduled to take place from June 21st to July 19th. ATEME has provided ENMA with a complete video […]

June 11, 2019

SSIMWAVE’s human touch content evaluation, encoding

SSIMWAVE, a specialist in the science of perceptual video quality measurement, has confirmed the availability of SSIMPLUS VOD Inspector, which it says is the first tool that enables the media industry to optimise video processing and delivery using the human visual system. The new cloud-based tool combines frame-by-frame and pixel-by-pixel analysis of video content with […]

June 4, 2019Colin Mann @ ANGA COM

NASCAR selects AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that NASCAR has chosen AWS as its standard for cloud-based machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads. NASCAR will use the breadth and depth of AWS technologies to build cloud-based services and automate processes, including a new video series on NASCAR.com called This Moment in NASCAR History powered by AWS. The video series will […]

June 4, 2019

BBC, BT live 5G production trial

The BBC and BT have successfully made the UK’s first live TV contribution over a public 5G connection, using EE’s 5G network. On BBC Breakfast on the morning of May 30th, viewers will have seen BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones cover the launch of the UK’s first 5G network from Covent Garden in Central London. […]

May 30, 2019