"multiscreen" articles
On Friday, Concurrent announced it is accelerating its multi-screen video delivery and monetization strategy through the acquisition of key technology assets from TellyTopia , one of the world’s first companies to bring user-generated and Internet hosted video directly to TV over service providers’ existing network infrastructures. TellyTopia’s patent-pending, cloud-based, online video platform becomes part of Concurrent’s multi-screen portfolio and further extends the...
NETGEAR's Push2TV is a solution within the wireless laptop-to-HDTV link product category that we're closely watching.
This past week, Sigma Designs announced that the SMP8653 secure media processor is the first and only media processor powering wireless PC-to-TV display devices. NETGEAR’s Push2TV™ adapter uses Sigma’s chipset to display content from Intel® Wireless Display enabled notebook PCs on the big screen HD-TV, wirelessly.
The market for wireless PC...
Belgian IPTV operator Belgacom is to make its service available on multiple devices after signing deal to implement Nokia Siemens Networks’ Ubiquity Multiscreen TV Platform .
Nokia has launched a new software client designed to deliver content to ‘any device with a screen’. The Multiscreen TV client integrates over-the-top TV and broadcast TV with the web and social network access, providing a user interface for services delivered via its Ubiquity Multiscreen TV Platform. The...
Verimatrix announced it has licensed Microsoft PlayReady Server technology in order to provide integrated MultiRights™ support for devices that support Microsoft PlayReady digital rights management (DRM). As a component of the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) 3, the company’s MultiRights™ framework enables transparent rights management across a range of networks and devices for streamlined multi-network and multi-screen video services.
Microsoft PlayReady is...
Nokia Siemens Networks has launched a new software client for 'any device with a screen' that allows people to watch TV via any network, integrating over-the-top TV and broadcast TV with Web and social network access.
The new software client provides a user interface for services delivered via the company's Ubiquity Multiscreen TV platform (launched last March), irrespective of location or device. The Ubiquity Multiscreen TV platform enables operators to provide live, recorded or...
A couple of weeks ago, I commented on the number of wireless PC-to-TV products that are popping up, taking advantage of a market trend where ten million U.S. households will be using some kind of computer-to-television hookup by the end of this year to watch online video.
Now, you can add Veebeam, which has two PC-to-TV video streamer products. Two models will be available--the $99 Veebeam SD and the $139 Veebeam HD (which adds an HDMI output).
More U.S. households are watching online video and on a wider variety of devices now than two years ago, but they are not sacrificing their TV viewing to do so. Digital Media Evolution II found 40% of all U.S. broadband homes now regularly watch long-form video on a computer. However, service providers can allay their fears of cord cutting for now as high use of PC video does not yet correlate with decreased TV viewing.
People are using online video to fill in the gaps. When it comes...
Time Warner Cable will be using Motorola's tru2way™ software to deploy a multi-room DVR solution. The Follow Me TV solution will enable subscribers to access, share and place shift video recordings throughout the home. Time Warner Cable aims to bring the solution to market later this year, to become the first cable company to deploy a multi-room DVR solution in a tru2way environment.
