Jan Ozer: “Beamr Delivers The Benefit of HEVC/VP9 Without The Implementation Hassles”

Jan Ozer, one of the world’s top experts on video compression and streaming and Contributing Editor of Streaming Media Magazine, has done a thorough evaluation of Beamr Video using test clips that he encoded.  The evaluation included analyzing the quality of the resulting clips using objective measures such as PSNR, SSIM and VQM, and conducting extensive viewing […]

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 […]

Hottest Trends From IBC 2014 in Amsterdam

We’re back after 5 intensive days at IBC 2014 in Amsterdam, where we presented Beamr Video 2.0 to over 200 potential customers. After catching our breath, we are now ready to share some of our insights from the show. First and foremost: Everyone and everything is moving to IP. Whether you’re a TV station, cable or […]

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 […]

Visit Us at IBC in Amsterdam, September 12-16

Beamr Video is heading to IBC in Amsterdam to show off some demos, meet our customers, say hello to old friends, and give out compressed T-shirts. The first demo we’ll be showing off will be a split-screen video demo displayed on a 4K screen. One half of the screen shows the original video, and the […]