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Imagine Communications unveils SelenioFlex

Imagine Communications, a market share leader of software and networking solutions serving the global media broadcast and service provider markets, today unveiled SelenioFlex, a comprehensive, software-based transcoding and encoding solution for live and file-based media processing. With the addition of SelenioFlex, Imagine Communications now offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of media processing solutions, addressing any […]

May 1, 2014

Targeted ads, let the sleeping dog lie

Ironically, given that its purpose is to draw attention, targeted advertising is the dog that didn’t bark. For as long as most of us can remember it has been talked of the great untapped resource, just waiting to be unlocked by convergence; the ‘Mother Load’ that would justify much investment in technology and content. The […]

April 23, 2014

MultiChoice selects Clearleap solution

Clearleap, a provider of multiscreen video logistics for the television industry, has been selected by MultiChoice to accelerate its multiscreen strategy and provide efficient management and delivery of its television content over both IP network and traditional pay-TV networks. MultiChoice is an African pay-TV provider that operates the DStv and GOtv services, two major platforms […]

April 16, 2014

CBS opts for Sony solutions

CBS Worldwide Distribution (CWD) plans to roll-out a unique combination of Sony’s Media Backbone Enterprise Management System and System Watch monitoring technology. CBS Worldwide Distribution is the unit that digitally distributes content domestically to more than 1,300 commercial TV stations and internationally to 120 countries in multiple languages, as well as offers a host of […]

April 14, 2014

ViXS and Intel collaborate

ViXS Systems, a specialist in media processing solutions, has announced a collaboration with Intel to partner on Headed Video / Networking Gateway products based on the XCode 6400 media processing system-on-chip (SoC) solution for major service providers globally. ViXS provides technology for transcoding, advanced media processing, and Multimedia over Coax (MoCA). ViXS has what it […]

April 14, 2014

Media managed service market hit $24bn in 2013

The global market for media managed services reached $24 billion in 2013, up nearly threefold from just $9 billion in 2006, driven by the need for online and digital video, according to new information from the IHS Technology Professional Video research practice. While media services cover activities such as storing, processing and preparing video content, […]

April 9, 2014

Vubiquity chooses Nativ’s MioEverywhere

Nativ, the media logistics platform (MLP) provider, has announced that Vubiquity, the largest global provider of multiplatform video services, has chosen Nativ’s MioEverywhere software to manage assets and workflows within its AnyVU Cloud video services platform. Vubiquity’s AnyVU Cloud platform offers a broad set of modular services that include access to a deep library of […]

April 9, 2014

thePlatform partners with Adobe

White-label video publishing company thePlatform has announced at NAB a new strategic relationship with Adobe to serve broadcasters, programmers, pay-TV operators, and other major media companies. Specifically, the two companies have integrated Adobe Primetime and thePlatform’s mpx video management system as part of an end-to-end IP-video solution that the companies will sell jointly to customers. […]

April 8, 2014

Akamai Cloud Workflow passes MPAA security assessment

Cloud services content specialist Akamai has confirmed that its cloud-based digital media workflow has passed the Motion Picture Association of America’s (MPAA) security assessment. As one of the first to undergo an MPAA security assessment, Akamai’s cloud workflow has the integrated digital rights management (DRM) element that is critical for premium content protection. The new […]

April 8, 2014

Calibre UK’s FoveaHD MEMC standards converter scores at World Cup

Image processing specialists, Calibre UK announces that a massive installation of its FoveaHD motion estimated and motion compensated standards converter will beused for frame rate conversion of live footage for transmission to viewers in countries with 50Hz television standards throughout the highly anticipated World Cup Brazil matches during Summer 2014. “Brazil uses 59.94Hz TV standards […]

April 8, 2014