Dror Gill
It looks like traditional cable television is streaming the wrong way; the days of paying large monthly bills for bundled channels that remain half unwatched are over. The MSOs that choose to evolve and stream their consumer’s way will remain relevant players in the media and entertainment industry. Those that don’t will turn into mere […]
Dan Julius
No. Not even close. Hyper-threading Technology (HTT), created by Intel almost 15 years ago, was designed to increase the performance of CPU cores. Intel explains that HTT uses processor resources more efficiently, and enables multiple threads to run on each core. The result is increased processor throughput, and improved overall performance on threaded software. With HTT […]
Eli Lubitch
Achievement #1 Wireless carriers are offering broadband speeds of 5-12 Mbps. These kinds of speeds are enough to accommodate most OTT recipes for full HD videos, bringing real meaning to any content, anytime and anywhere. According to Netflix, 5.0 Mbps is the Internet connection speed recommended for playing their movies and TV shows at HD […]
Dror Gill
In the early days of video on the Internet, encoding video for streaming was quite simple: You created a 320×240 video file encoded at 500 Kilobits per second, and that would fit on anyone’s computer screen, and into anyone’s first-generation DSL connection. But in today’s multi-screen world, your video needs to reach a multitude of […]
Dror Gill
Fresh back from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where it seemed everything that can be connected will be – and anything that displays video may now be properly called a TV – I noticed a unifying constraint that doesn’t appear to be easing up: The issue of how to maintain network stability amidst […]
Eli Lubitch
The future of TV displays I want to begin with a conclusion: CES 2016 further validated that Media Optimization is perfectly in line with the main trends of the video industry. It was a real pleasure seeing our customers presenting at CES, such as M-GO (a joint venture between DreamWorks Animation and Technicolor) featured by […]
Dror Gill
It’s been pretty busy 2015 has been a very busy year in video compression, driven by the launch of 4K HEVC streaming services on the one hand, and HEVC patent issues and royalty uncertainties on the other hand. In addition, a continued shift to software platforms and cloud solutions for video encoding, and increased consolidation […]
Dror Gill
In a move that highlights the value of media optimization, online streaming giant Netflix announced that it is experimenting with ways to reduce bandwidth, while providing the same (or better) viewing experience. Netflix has it right, there are simply too many wasted bits being transmitted by video services today. As pioneers in the field of […]
Eli Lubitch
Introduced to applause from consumers and confusion from competitors, the T-Mobile® Binge On plan enables subscribers to view video from 15 content providers, without usage being counted in their mobile data consumption. This represents a major breakthrough. Though the exact mechanics behind how T-Mobile is making this possible are unknown, with a basic understanding of […]
Dror Gill
The opposing forces at the core of data caps Data usage caps have nothing to do with technology limitations, but they have everything to do with the economic investment required by ISPs to handle the overwhelming increase in traffic as a result of online video. On one side we have the ISPs that have invested […]
