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Elemental unveils Stream Solution

Multiscreen content delivery solutions specialist Elemental Technologies is launching Elemental Stream, a video processing system designed to segment, package and secure live and on-demand content for multiscreen delivery at The Cable Show 2012 in Boston Elemental Stream can be positioned at the core encoding location or as an integral part of the content delivery infrastructure, […]

May 21, 2012

Elemental Stream pushes multiscreen video processing into the network

Elemental Technologies, a supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has announced Elemental Stream, a video processing system designed to segment,  package and secure live and on-demand content for multiscreen delivery. Launched today at The Cable Show 2012, Elemental Stream can be positioned at the core encoding location or as an integral part of […]

May 21, 2012

Avail-TVN supports NBC Olympics coverage

Avail-TVN, the digital media services company, has partnered with NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, to support the delivery of the largest volume of VoD content ever provided to NBC Olympics Distribution Partners by NBC Olympics. “With marquee content like the Olympics, we will rely on Avail-TVN’s digital media network expertise to […]

May 17, 2012

Columbus selects Elemental video solutions

Elemental Technologies, a supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, and Columbus Communications, a retail and wholesale telecommunications company in the Caribbean and Latin America, have announced that Columbus is the latest service provider to use Elemental Live to power the encoding of content for its new multiscreen video services. The expanded services, slated […]

May 15, 2012

SeaChange releases Nitro Now

With the goal of improving the consumer experience on all video-enabled devices, SeaChange International, the global multi-screen video software innovator, has released its Nitro Now subscriber experience set-top software. Nitro Now features a lightweight subscriber portal that enhances the industry’s deployed QAM-based set-top boxes with a subscriber interface that’s on par with other video-enabled devices, […]

May 9, 2012

KIT digital expects $60m Q1 revenues

KIT digital, a video technology and services company, has reported preliminary results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. Based on preliminary unaudited information, KIT digital management expects to report revenue for the first quarter of 2012 of approximately $59 million, and a non-GAAP operating loss in the first quarter of 2012 of approximately […]

May 4, 2012

QuickPlay boosts cloud encoding for HD

QuickPlay Media, a provider of managed solutions for the distribution of video to IP-connected devices, has announced new enhancements to its OpenVideo platform that will improve encoding efficiency for delivering HD video and provide additional capacity for large customer deployments. The latest version of OpenVideo enables TV service providers to efficiently and cost-effectively deliver high […]

May 4, 2012

SeaChange licenses APRICO recommendation

SeaChange International announced that it has agreed to license APRICO content recommendation source code and other intellectual property rights from Royal Philips Electronics. This agreement allows SeaChange to tightly integrate state-of-the-art personalised, content-aware and collaborative recommendation functionality into its Adrenalin multi-screen video back office platform. With recommendation functionality built-in, Adrenalin will enable video service providers […]

May 2, 2012

IMAX getting bigger

IMAX, the operator of giant cinema screens, is to tap into a growing momentum for the format by equipping new theatres.  IMAX Corp plans to install 95 systems this year, on top of the 510 now in use. A year ago the number was 386. IMAX unveiled the news, along with its Q1 numbers on […]

April 30, 2012By Chris Forrester

FreeWheel supports linear and digital upfronts

FreeWheel, the video technology company serving enterprise-class entertainment companies, has unveiled three new extension products for their flagship ad management system, Monetisation Rights Management (MRM), that will support entertainment companies in delivering on their integrated television and digital upfront commitments. Developed with input from programmer and distributor customers participating in the upfronts, the new products […]

April 27, 2012