Media Delivery
Sportall adds Bitmovin solutions for playback and monitoring
Bitmovin Player aims to improve Sportall's time to market when delivering streams to different iOS and Android devices
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Media Management
Evertz takes MAM, playout, and live production into the cloud
Among the products available is Evertz's DreamCatcher suite of production tools, which provides a number of services including ingest, playback, live editing, and slow-motion replay
Production & Post
DNEG launches open source beta version of playback and review app
As an open source project, xSTUDIO will be managed by a Technical Steering Committee (TSC) chaired by DNEG and consisting of engineers and contributors...
Media Delivery
Netflix details its prioritised load shedding to keep streams uninterrupted
Netflix's engineers have nicknamed their priority throttling filter Zoul
Business
Netflix: “We’re planning on taking spending up quite a bit”
CEO Reed Hastings responds to variable playback backlash
TVBEverywhere
Netflix responds to variable playback speed backlash
Company stresses it has "no plans" to roll out test in the short term
TVBEverywhere
Netflix testing variable playback speeds
Testing different options on a small group of Android users
Technology
Netflix tracks physical activity for improved playback “on the go”
No current plans to roll out physical tracking on a wider basis
Audio
Avid’s Pro Tools 2019 includes 50 per cent more voice/audio tracks
Users can perform track and timeline interactions during playback
Production & Post
RED makes 8K playback possible with new software development kit
Enables Nvidia Cuda GPU-accelerated decoding and debayering for real-time 8K playback
Business
24i Media deploys OTT solution for PureFlix.com
Allows SVoD to deliver a personalised experience across all devices
Features
Four steps to taming the content delivery monster
By John Griffiths, VP marketing, Spicy Mango
Audio
Dropbox introduces time-based commenting for audio and video
Allows teams to efficiently review files
Videos
Technology
Latency and device playback top concerns for video publishers
Bitmovin publishes its Video Developer Report
Business
Younger viewers unfazed by poor quality of experience
One in five viewers will abandon poor video streaming services immediately, and after such an experience one in five will never return to that...
News