The creators of song-sharing service Napster have reunited for a video start-up. Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, told the FT he will be executive chairman of start-up Airtime. Shawn Fanning, who wrote the software behind the music site, will be chief executive. The pair only hinted at Airtime’s product or strategy – but […]
Telestream, the provider of video transcoding and workflow solutions, has announced new sales management roles for senior executives to help drive long-term business expansion in established and growth markets. Steve Ellis was named Vice President of Emerging Markets and Kevin McCartney was named Vice President of Sales for Telestream’s enterprise products. These changes will allow […]
Multi-screen video solutions specialist SeaChange has confirmed that Liberty Global has selected SeaChange’s Adrenalin multi-screen video back office and client publishing solutions for Liberty Global’s Horizon media and entertainment platform rollouts. Following current field trials, the multiple system operator is targeting commercial launch of Horizon at UPC in the Netherlands first, to be followed closely […]
Base79, the UK’s leading digital rights management and monetisation company, has announced a 300 per cent increase in viewing figures and significant increase in revenue generation for the Ministry of Sound video catalogue. The increase follows Ministry of Sound licensing its catalogue of 500 video assets to Base79 (previously MyVideoRights). Using the Base79’s rights management […]
Telestream, a provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, has announced a significant release for its popular Flip4Mac WMV Components. Now used by over 10 million people, Flip4Mac WMV allows Mac users to easily import, export, and play Microsoft Windows Media video and audio in native QuickTime-based environments. Version 2.4 adds enhanced support for […]
RealNetworks has launched the first Helix Multi-Track solution, a product extension available for the Helix Universal Media Server. RealNetworks is launching Helix Multi-Track and launch partner, Streamovations, a Belgium-based company that focuses on delivering multi-lingual video solutions, will utilise Helix Multi-Track to enable organisations to broadcast multi-lingual live and on-demand content to their consumers, constituents […]
Edgeware, the technology expert in distributed video delivery, has announced its new products at IBC to support the company’s Distributed Video Delivery Network (D-VDN) strategy for network operators Edgeware’s D-VDN is a unified framework for video delivery, providing simple and highly scalable platform to deliver next generation video services with the highest QoE to any […]
Concurrent, a specialist in video, media data and advertising solutions, has confirmed that Kabel Deutschland (KD), Germany’s largest cable provider, has signed an agreement with Concurrent to implement the MediaHawk VX video delivery platform for its 8.7 million subscribers. Concurrent’s MediaHawk VX enables KD to deliver high quality video content to multiple screens from a […]
Cryptography Research, a division of Rambus, and Verimatrix, a specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, have announced that Verimatrix has licensed Cryptography Research’s CryptoFirewall security core technology to help build advanced solutions protecting video delivery revenue streams. ”Content piracy and theft of service are major commercial concerns […]
TV One will be delivering its brand new C3-340 Series CORIOmatrix at IBC 2011 held in Amsterdam on September 9th-13th. The new C3-340 offers an industry first firmware based video routing, switching and video conversion platform. 16 AV universal module slots are available and the CORIOmatrix automatically recognises the modules inserted as an input or […]