Screen Wars: Episode II V.0 - The Stations Awaken

Broadcasters didn’t invent wireless. They invented how to bring wireless news and entertainment content to the public for free, and make money at it. Since the first US wireless broadcast with sound 106 years ago, radio and TV broadcasters have built the largest, most powerful wireless networks in the world a

How to Add Live Captions to Streaming Content

If adding captions to your streaming content – whether it’s on-demand or live – feels daunting, you’re not alone. Both present new challenges that arise in step with fast-evolving formats and consumer tastes. …

This industry has created a bunch of hackers, folks that think content should be “free”.  While professionals in the business of television and advertising know otherwise, much of today's content is surrounded by an overwhelming volume, a lack of pertinence and generally, poor-quality advertising.

The Cost of Live Video Streaming Falls, Allowing Virtually Any Organization To Become a Broadcaster

It has long been known that video drives viewers to websites. But live streaming video was often too expensive for modest news and information outlets, forcing them to rely on video content provided by other sources. Now, the cost of streaming has fallen, making it possible for virtually anyone to

Late 2015: Updating Our UHD Expectations

This holiday season will see a buying frenzy of UHD-4K televisions. But, where is the content for these high-rez screens? …

Harmonic Shops NASA UHD TV Channel

The NASA TV channel, partially owned and powered by the latest compression technology from Harmonic and featuring programming captured and distributed in pristine UHD (2160p60) resolution, has become the first such channel available to consumers in North America. Only those with UHD-compatible televisions can view the full beauty of the

Viewpoint: Big Data Analytics Pivotal to Future Of Pay TV

When we look at the various TV packages available today, the vast majority of pay-TV service providers are failing to maximize the amount of data that can be attributed to all the content that is watched by viewers. Yet, in an era where personalization will be one of the biggest

With the announcement of YouTube Red, broadcasters need to re-examine their role in content delivery.

Elastic CDNs Can Play Key Role Scaling OTT for Live Video

The growing ability of CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) to enable live video streaming over the Internet was a major theme at the Content Delivery World 2015 forum in London on October 5-7. Vendors and operators agreed that virtualization of the CDN was essential for scaling high quality OTT services by separating

Open Media Alliance Throws Down the Gauntlet to HEVC

Seven Internet giants have joined forces to build an open source codec to challenge HEVC for compressing high definition video content and especially Ultra HD (UHD) or 4K. The new Open Media Alliance Source project has the stated intention of developing “next-generation media formats, codecs and technologies” but the subtext is