Q: Where is Brightcove today and how has it been entering the TV space? A: Brightcove is best known for our Video Cloud online video platform, but we’re much more than that. Brightcove provides cloud content services that help organisations of all kinds to publish and distribute professional digital media. We actually do two things: 1. Deliver the world’s professional digital media; so we enable organisations like Discovery Networks, Time, Sony Pictures and PUMA to publish and … [Read more...] about Up in the Cloud
Technology
The Need for Agility in Building OTT Platforms in Asia
As one casts a look across the evolving multiscreen market, there can perhaps be no more significant reality than the one looming for Asia Pacific-based pay-TV operators and telcos preparing to deploy mobile, over-the-top (OTT) television services. Whether or not OTT multiscreen efforts will generate significant revenues, they have become a necessary business strategy: multiscreen is here to stay and it’s clear that linear TV isn’t going away any time soon. Yet, while the multiscreen … [Read more...] about The Need for Agility in Building OTT Platforms in Asia
News REwire
There are two overarching trends in the future of news. Firstly, consumers are accessing news from an ever-broader range of devices. These devices provide access to content on-demand, anywhere and they provide much greater scope for interactivity, enabling the global consumption of news (and feedback to news providers) on an unprecedented scale. Secondly, the concept of what constitutes news is widening and new services that are less reliant on “professional” newsgathering are … [Read more...] about News REwire
Homeland Security
Q: When it comes to issues of digital rights management (DRM), what kind of conversations did you have with Astro, and were channels or broadcasters involved in those conversations? A: Delivering content specifi cally to mobile devices requires a different approach to content security, because these are open devices – they are not controlled by the operator. With Astro, we implemented a Microsoft player DRM. But in order to get the various content owners’ approval, the … [Read more...] about Homeland Security
Left to your own Devices
Changing the landscape A conventional satellite TV reception system converts the received satellite signals and distributes them via coaxial cables to satellite tuners and demodulators in set-top boxes (STBs). To make available satellite TV programmes to more TV screens in the house would require more decoders and coaxial cabling. However, the continuing growth of the “third” and “fourth” screens—the smartphones and tablets—is changing the playing field when … [Read more...] about Left to your own Devices
Screen Savour
If you fi nd yourself clicking on a mouse to get to video content just as often as you do on a remote control, you are not in the minority. Among consumers who are existing Internet users (“online consumers”), watching video content on computers has become just as popular as watching video content on television, according to Nielsen. 84% of online consumers reported watching video content at home on a computer at least once a month, compared to television’s 83%. This is in … [Read more...] about Screen Savour