Perfectly Optimized Together
At Beamr, we know better than anyone else that online video consumption has reached critical mass. Content owners of all kinds are seeking…
Best Efforts vs. Managed Networks
We live in the most dynamic and exciting time, as it relates to entertainment distribution. The press is abuzz with talk of cord cutting,…
TN2224 is So Yesterday!
For those who have Apple TN2224 committed to memory, I’ll start by saying, “sorry”. It’s not that the Apple document…
Staying In Tune With the Evolution of Broadcast Video
If you’ve read some of the Media & Entertainment news headlines lately, you’ve probably noticed that everything is about OTT: New…
When quality and bit-rate are at equal priority, what tools are available to a compressionist?
Recently I was in deep discussion with a major MSO regarding their encoding recipes, and later as I reflected on the conversation, it occurred…
Don’t Buy It Now
The times they are a-changin’, that’s what Dylan said And the pace of change is accelerating, just listen to any TED So when you buy a product…
Can MSOs Enable Subscribers to Define Their Own Media Experience?
It looks like traditional cable television is streaming the wrong way; the days of paying large monthly bills for bundled channels that remain…
Do You Really Get Double Performance from Hyper-threads?
No. Not even close. Hyper-threading Technology (HTT), created by Intel almost 15 years ago, was designed to increase the performance of CPU…
Any Content, Anytime, Anywhere – Priceless?
Achievement #1 Wireless carriers are offering broadband speeds of 5-12 Mbps. These kinds of speeds are enough to accommodate most OTT recipes…
Perceptual Content-Adaptive Transcoding: Going Beyond Preset ABR Recipes
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…