Increasing Your Website’s Google Ranking With Smaller Images
For web users, waiting on slow-loading websites is about as exciting as watching paint dry. Those slow-moving progress bars and spinning…
Are viewers the new content aggregators?
Consumer spending on video streaming services is expected to rise 39% this year to about $13 billion, according to the Consumer Technology…
2018 Video Trends: 8K Makes a Splash
At the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, video hardware manufacturers came out swinging on the innovation front—including 8K TVs and a host of…
CES 2018: 5G, 8K, and Beyond
5G video and the future of next-gen UltraHD video were hot topics at CES this week. While both technologies are independent of one another,…
CES 2018: Connected TV Tunes into the User Experience
As we roll into 2018, almost half of all US broadband households (45%) now own a smart TV, according to Parks Associates research – and it’s…
HEVC today. AV1 tomorrow?
In case you missed it, Apple just snuck a little surprise into the first few days of 2018 in the form of their name appearing on the Alliance…
Beamr Live HEVC Encoding Speed Test on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable Platinum Processor
It’s no secret that Intel-based hardware is ubiquitous in many video encoding data centers, which explains the high level of interest in the…
How to deal with the tension on the mobile network – part 2 (VIDEO Interview)
In late July, I reported on the “news” that Verizon was throttling video traffic for some users. As usual, the facts around this…
The Need for Speed: x265 & Beamr 5 Epic Face Off
UPDATE 11/15/2017: Be sure to check out part 2 of this post which covers Beamr 5 performance on the new Intel Scalable Platinum processor.…
How to deal with the tension of video on the mobile network – Part 1
Last week, the Internet erupted in furor over Verizon’s alleged “throttling” of video streaming services over their mobile network. With a…