February 27, 2014

Featured News

Amazon to Merge LoveFilm Instant with Amazon Prime

In a move that many expected, Amazon is combining its two video streaming services. New members can get a year of service for £49.

Private Equity Fund Capidea Becomes Xstream Majority Investor

Capidea now owns just above 50 percent of Xstream, giving the company the muscle to go after international clients.

Featured Articles

The State of Media and Entertainment Video 2014

Changes in the BBC's iPlayer, the growth of YouView, and the transformation of Twitter all offer a glimpse into the issues facing content providers throughout Europe.

Brazil, the World Cup, and the Olympics: Ready or Not?

With the Sochi games winding down, all eyes turn to Brazil for the next two global sporting events, this year's World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. Are mobile networks in Brazil ready for the traffic that's bound to come from all the live video being generated from those events?

HDMI Dongles Are a Boon to Pay TV Operators

Smart sticks like Google's Chromecast provide another route for pay TV providers to deliver multi-screen content with implications for software in the TV and hardware under the screen

Industry News

Unified Streaming accelerates online delivery of Sochi 2014 for NOS/NPO The Netherlands

NOS/NPO the public broadcaster of the Netherlands uses Unified Streaming to deliver Sochi 2014 live streams to the whole of the country. The number of online viewers range from 100-250K concurrent viewers.

Quadia acquires Code One’s streaming division in Germany

Less than two years after establishing its German branch, Dutch online video expert Quadia has completed an important acquisition in Germany. Through the acquisition of the streaming services division of Code One GmbH, German specialist for video streamin

eyevis continuously growing

German digital specialist is expanding its range of complete one-stop solutions through the acquisition of the Bavarian IPTV & video-networking specialist Teracue

OPTICOM first to premiere Standards-based OTT Video Quality Testing at Mobile World Congress

PEVQ-S enables accurate Picture Quality Benchmarking and Optimization of OTT Video Services, by modelling Subjective Subscriber Experience