As part of its new Watch Prompts dataset to help video service providers improve content discovery, Gracenote can offer analogies based on thematically similar content. An example offered is for ‘Barbie’, which could be described as “Legally Blonde meets The Lego Movie”. This simple yet potentially powerful idea can harness either human editors, machine learning…
Comcast is leveraging edge compute technology to put more computing power closer to consumers to deliver a better Internet experience for applications like streaming and gaming. The service provider is also looking to develop a standardized platform for providers to distribute their content across its network. This development harnesses Qwilt’s Open Edge platform, with the…
Michelle Munson, CEO and Co-Founder at Eluvio, has given a cost reduction figure for BVOD streaming, when using the Eluvio Content Fabric, that screams ‘industry inflection point’. As the company focuses more on the D2C streaming market, we await the deals that could act as supporting evidence for her assertion that it is a no-brainer…
Synamedia has launched an innovative service delivery SaaS that performs all UI and app rendering in the cloud and delivers the resulting user experience to a low-cost cloud connector, which simultaneously receives ABR video streams from the CDN. The result is an STB-like output without STB prices. It creates the possibility that streaming services could…
The Australian platform operator has deployed new set-top boxes that use RDK but also harness an innovative application delivery platform called AndApps that enables the use of Android applications on either RDK or Linux middleware-based devices. This enables Fetch TV to easily add Android apps to the RDK ecosystem, enhancing consumer choice with apps that…
Austrian broadcast group ORS and video compression and delivery technology provider Ateme have announced what they say is the world’s first trial of an IP-based statmux over 5G-Broadcast, increasing 5G-Broadcast capacity for live streaming services. This groundbreaking initiative leverages Ateme’s NextGen StatMux technology, which is designed to work with the latest broadcast standards from 3GPP,…
Peer-to-peer is being proposed as a solution for streaming services to overcome capacity bottlenecks and cope with rapid scaling during live events while keeping CDN costs and energy consumption down. Quanteec will be at IBC in September with claims that its next-generation, CDN-agnostic P2P streaming solution can reduce energy consumption by up to half and…
D2C studios, broadcasters and platform operators can expect a 20% encoding efficiency boost thanks to the use of AI – in some cases helping them delay codec upgrades beyond HEVC thanks to short-term reductions in CDN costs. Video processing specialist Media Excel is promising the gains with its new DIVA (Dynamic Intelligent Video Adaptive) encoding…
CANAL+ has been using Ateme’s NEA solutions to power its new TV+ streaming service, which offers over 80 live and catch-up TV channels and a selection of SVOD content. The studio and channel owner is leveraging NEA for its VOD-to-Live workflow “in order to completely transform the OTT channel creation and distribution workflow”. CANAL+ can…
Lionsgate has chosen Amagi to be its partner for FAST playout and delivery globally, as the studio looks to scale its international presence in the free linear streaming space. Lionsgate is managing two dozen channels and wants to launch new channels “at an unprecedented pace”. It will use Amagi’s technology to create and manage a…
