Sweden’s Modern Times Group (MTG) has taken the next step towards becoming a major global esports player by setting up a joint venture with leading Chinese platform for competitive gaming, Huya.
There is always a cacophony of noise around the big tradeshows; at NAB this year Telestream made its voice clearly heard with the first showcase of OptiQ Channel, a new and radically different one-click channel creation live service for cloud environments.
Kwesé Play, the Sub Saharan streaming video service launched amid fanfare and high hopes in 2017, has shut down after several months of rumors over disappointing revenues and failure to recoup high content costs.
Telestream, a privately held provider of software and hardware products for video processing, has completed integration of video test, monitoring and quality assurance products from Tektronix. This came three months after the announcement that Telestream would acquire Tektronix Video in April 2019.
Research from consumer tech market research firm Parks Associates has confirmed that the boom in mobile video viewing is having an impact on cord cutting.
Streaming wars are associated in the public mind with the intensifying battle for supremacy between Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple and a few others in the SVoD (Subscription VoD) field, but it also applies to the contention heating up between underlying protocols for low latency transmission of video over the Internet.
