Category: 4K TV

Translating Opinions into Fact When it Comes to Video Quality

This post was originally featured at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/translating-opinions-fact-when-comes-video-quality-mark-donnigan  In this post, we attempt to de-mystify the topic of perceptual video quality, which is the foundation of Beamr’s content adaptive encoding and content adaptive optimization solutions.  National Geographic has a hit TV franchise on its hands. It’s called Brain Games starring Jason Silva, a talent described as “a […]

VCT, the Secret to Confident Subjective Video Quality Testing

We can all agree that analyzing video quality is one of the biggest challenges when evaluating codecs. Companies use a combination of objective and subjective tests to validate encoder efficiency. In this post, I’ll explore why it is difficult to measure video quality with quantitative metrics alone because they fail to meet the subjective quality […]

Will Virtual Reality Determine the Future of Streaming?

As video services take a more aggressive approach to virtual reality (VR), the question of how to scale and deliver this bandwidth intensive content must be addressed to bring it to a mainstream audience. While we’ve been talking about VR for a long time you can say that it was reinvigorated when Oculus grabbed the […]

M-GO Upgrades Streaming UX With Beamr Video

It is with great joy and excitement that we announce a new member to the Beamr Video family: M-Go, a premium over-the-top VOD service that is a joint venture between Technicolor and DreamWorks Animation. M-GO is leveraging strategic partnerships with tier-one media companies to grow its vast premium content catalog, including 4K UHD titles, and […]

Using Media Optimization to Improve Streaming Performance

Back in November, we attended Streaming Media West, where our Director of Sales and Strategy, Mark Donnigan, moderated a panel on Media Optimization at Streaming Media West. The panel included the following industry experts: Brad Collar, SVP, Warner Bros. Technical Operations (GDMX) Samir Ahmed, CTO, M-GO Glen Marzan, VP, Information Technology Production Services & Studio Operations, Sony Pictures Entertainment Tim Miller, […]

Industry Executives Acknowledge Beamr’s Media Optimization Leadership

This week at Streaming Media West, Beamr’s Director of Sales and Strategy, Mark Donnigan, moderated a panel on Media Optimization at Streaming Media West. The panel included industry experts from Sony, Warner Brothers, Yahoo! and M-Go, who discussed their usage of media optimization technologies to improve user experience, provide the best quality on every device, […]

Beamr Video is Heading to Streaming Media West

UPDATE: Watch the video here. We are headed to Streaming Media West in Huntington Beach, California! This is the place to learn all about cutting-edge online video technologies, and new business strategies, filled with case studies, how-to sessions, panel discussions, and in-depth tutorials. On Wednesday, November 19 at 1:45 PM, our very own Mark Donnigan […]

How Clogged Will the Internet be by 2020?

How clogged will the internet be by 2020? Well, let’s take a look at a few things. The number of TV sets connected to the internet will reach 965 million by 2020, that’s up from 103 million at the end of 2010 and the 339 million expected at the end of 2014.The number of televisions […]

Beamr Video Optimizes Videos and. . . T-shirts?

As we were getting ready for IBC a few weeks ago, we started thinking about how making the visit to our booth more special. The idea of giving away T-shirts came up, and since we didn’t think people would be happy to go around wearing a Beamr Video logo, we decided to put a nice […]

Cutting Bitrate by 50% Just Became a Reality

It is with great joy and excitement that we announce the launch of Beamr 2.0 today. It was just one short year ago that we launched Beamr Video and set out to reduce the bitrate of any H.264 or HEVC video stream by up to fifty percent, enabling a smoother streaming experience with reduced buffering […]