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DMGI Choose Telestream Episode Series Transcoding Tools

Fraser MacInnes — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:47:58 +0000

Telestream, a leading provider of media workflow solutions (basically easing the process of getting video ready for broadcast), has announced that its Episode Series encoding applications have been handpicked by digital media aggregator and distributor, Digital Music Group Inc (DMGI).

DMGI basically pushes online content by doing all of the admin i.e. processing, encoding, delivering, and marketing before punting the transcoded material into the market place.

Big Names Under Its Belt

Founded in 2005 with an express focus on music it wasn’t until 2006 that the company branched out into video content. Now the household names that DMGI processes video for include big hitters such as iTunes, Joost, YouTube, Walmart, Amazon, Veoh, Netflix, Helio and mSpot.

Great work if you can get it and judging by that who’s who of broadband video customer list, it looks like DMGI have something of a stronghold on the corporate transcoding market, making this deal great news for Telestream.

“Episode Engine is a perfect addition to DMGI’s high-volume Final Cut Pro workflow. It underscores the value of Episode’s scalability to start with a desktop application, easily expand to a server-based solution and continue to grow to a clustered server environment to meet DMGI’s rapidly growing business needs”

Said David Heppe, President/COO at Telestream *whilst laughing all the way to the bank* (probably).

[Via Press Release]

Juniper Networks Release E-120 Router | Making IPTV More Provider & User Friendly

Gilbert Hammer — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:06:45 +0000

Juniper Networks are the company behind the E-Series Routers, a system allowing IPTV providers a greater level of choice and give more targeted advertising services.

“Juniper Networks has added the E-120 Router to their E-Series which offers providers the ability to give media agencies and programmers viewing data with a level of detail that even Nielsen can’t provide,” said Gary Southwell, Juniper’s director of multiplay solutions.

“It’s no longer a sample of subscriber activity, it’s a per channel, per time slot, per ad slot view of actual IPTV usage.”

“The E120 addresses a major concern for service providers, specifically how to cost-effectively scale their IPTV services to reach a larger subscriber base served by smaller, space and power-constrained sites,” said Jeff Heynen, directing analyst, Broadband and IPTV, Infonetics Research.

Motorola spotlighted as Most Prominent IPTV STB Vendor

Chris Tew — Sun, 06 May 2007 09:49:01 +0000

Motorola is not a company that you may instantly associate with IPTV boxes, or set top boxes in general. If you asked the man on the street what Motorola does he would probably mention cell phones.

However Motorola has had a strong placement in the set top box (STB) market for some time. Last year it announced that it has shifted 50 million cable boxes.

DivX Partner Companies | Jumpers and Joiners

Chris Tew — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:01:26 +0000

In case you blindly missed Stage6 Day here on Web TV Wire and also on Web TV Hub, you may not know that DivX is boasting the compatibility of its DivX videos in over 70 million consumer electronic devices.

Those 70 million devices span from the many partner companies that DivX has teamed up with over the past few years. Davis Freeberg decided to delve a little deeper into these partnerships to see who has come one board with DivX and who has been jumping ship.

thePlatform launches mpsPresent for customizable video channels

Chris Tew — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:03:39 +0000

While watching individual TV channels on different websites you were probably not aware that some of them will have been powered by thePlatform.

ThePlatform has been powering a variety of online video destinations including ABC News, A&E, Amp’d Mobile, CNBC, College Sports TV, Court TV, Comcast, E!, Hearst, Microsoft, the Oxygen Network, PRIMEDIA, Scripps, Sony/BMG Music, Ruckus, Vongo, Telstra, Verizon Wireless, and G4.

The features that really separates thePlatform from other video platforms like Brightcove is its ability to customize.

Microsoft IPTV Penetration So Far

Chris Tew — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:34:14 +0000

The other day I talked about how Bill Gates was bigging up the future of TV using internet technology. Microsoft is already well placed in the IPTV arena and its IPTV platform is being used by a large number of TV providers including big names like AT&T, BT and Verizon. CE Pro has an awesome table showing all of the companies using Microsoft’s IPTV platform and what these companies are doing. Below is a summary…

Companies using Microsoft’s IPTV Platform

AT&T
U-Verse TV
BT
BT Vision
DT
T-Online Germany
T-Home
Magyar Telecom
Slovak Telecom
Swisscom
Bluewin TV
T-Online France
Club Internet
Beijing Telecom
Bell Canada
TDC (Denmark)
Telecom Italia
T-Online Spain
Ya.com
Wind (Italy)
Verizon
FiOS TV
(Foundation Hybrid)

Trial Customers

BellSouth
Reliance Communications
Singtel
Telkom South Africa

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