Streaming Media East Conference to Feature 20 "How-To" Sessions

We heard our attendees loud and clear. They said “talk less, show more” and at this year's Streaming Media East show, we're making that happen. We've added a fourth track devoted solely to “how-to” sessions. Plus, several others sprinkled throughout the program. The how-to sessions include: How-to: Technical Setup of Live Streaming Production How-to: Choosing an Enterprise-Class Video Encoder How-to:…

Soft European market knocks Harmonic Q1 earnings

A slow start and a soft European market cost Harmonic (Nasdaq:HLIT) in the first quarter of 2012. The video infrastructure company, in its preliminary Q1 earnings, reported net revenue of $127.7 million, down roughly 4 percent from $132.8 million a year ago.

Universal Sports taps Brightcove for delivery of live, VoD content

LAS VEGAS–Universal Sports Network is using Brightcove’s (Nasdaq: BCOV) Video Cloud online video platform to deliver live and on-demand sports coverage to its website UniversalSports.com. The company today said it would deliver more than 2,000 hours of original, Olympic, adventure and endurance sports programming to both Adobe Flash and HTML5 desktops and devices. USN said the Video Cloud allows it to “offer significant quantities of both live and on-demand video content across multiple screens while providing a great viewer experience.” “Video Cloud also gives us access to critical analytics and reporting tools that we use to measure the performance of our programming and fine-tune content to best meet the demands of our passionate audience and dedicated advertiser base,” said Elliott Gordon, vice president and general manager of digital for Universal Sports

Video News Roundup From Day Two Of The NAB Show

Here are all the releases I have seen so far this morning from day two of the NAB show. Will add to them as I get more. Here are all the releases from day one.

Netflix’s CEO Is Trying To Use Net Neutrality To Deflect The Real Issue, Competition

On Sunday, Netflix's CEO took to his Facebook page to complain that Comcast isn't being fair when it comes to net neutrality principles. His argument is that Comcast's Xfinity TV streaming app on the Xbox 360 doesn't count towards consumers monthly bandwidth cap, yet services like Netflix and Hulu do. While it's a nice try on his part to drag..

Level 3 Expands CDN Capacity, Owing The Network Has Its Advantages

This morning Level 3 announced it had expanded the coverage and capacity of their content delivery network. While all CDN vendors are always increasing the reach and capacity of their networks, it's nice to see a vendor put out some real numbers for a change. Level 3 says it has increased its globally available CDN capacity to more than 5.6…

Ooyala combines data, analytics to personalize online video recommendations

Online video platform Ooyala is trying to make discovering video content easier and more personalized, today announcing it’s rolling out a new set of algorithms, machine learning and collaborative filtering that already is driving a four-fold increase in consumer engagement with select customers that are trialing the tools. Click here to watch a video about ooyala. Ooyala said the proprietary techniques leverage the data collected from nearly 200 million monthly viewers who watch Ooyala-powered video experiences across the web on it customers’ websites, among them companies like ESPN, Miramax

Livestream Announces $495 Webcasting Encoder That Could Truly Disrupt The Market

It's not too often I see new products that I think will truly disrupt the industry, but this morning, Livestream announced a new hardware encoder that really should change the market for webcasting professionals. Called the Livestream Broadcaster, this $495 encoder makes encoding and distributing live HD events to the web and mobile devices easy and really, really affordable. (see…

Save The Date: NY Video Meetup Tuesday May 15th At Streaming Media East Show

It’s that time of year again when we partner up with the NY Video Meetup group to co-host a special mega-session in conjunction with our Streaming Media East show at the Hilton hotel in New York City. Tuesday May 15th, at 6:30pm, local online video startups will demo their new products live in front of hundreds of local peers. After…

Analysts: Competition hurting Netflix subscriber growth

It’s not just the addition of a PS3 option for Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) Prime Instant Video that has analysts worried about Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX), it’s the increasing weight of the competition that has them concerned. Barclays this week lowered its rating on the company’s shares from “overweight” to “equalweight,” saying Netflix is facing more competition to attract subscribers in the U.S. market, adding the effort may be difficult to pull off because content prices are continuing to soar.

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