June 22, 2015
Online Video News
Amazon Increasing Original Program Budget to Compete With Netflix
18 Jun 2015
Original series and movies are proving crucial for video-on-demand services, so Amazon is doubling down from its $1.3B 2014 budget.
Time Warner Cable to Be Subject of First Net Neutrality Dispute
17 Jun 2015
The case should help educate the public in the difference between bandwidth throttling and settlement-free peering.
Netflix Debuts Access Improvements for the Visually Impaired
17 Jun 2015
A homepage link now lets visually impaired subscribers discover TV shows and movies that have an audio narration track.
Featured Articles
HOW TO: Building a Video Player
18 Jun 2015
Should you build a player yourself or use an openly available one like JWPlayer or Video.js? How do you build a streaming video application without any plugins?
HOW TO: H.265 vs. H.264—An Under-the-Hood Assessment
18 Jun 2015
Learn if and how H.265 compression and deployment options can be used in typical online streaming workflows, and whether or not your target audiences can benefit.
HOW TO: Top Tips for Getting Your Android Apps Running on Amazon Fire TV
18 Jun 2015
This session will get you started with Amazon's free Fire TV developer SDK and provide plenty of tips for getting your app up and running.
Industry News
Twitch selects Teradek Solutions for Largest Video Game Conference
Twitch, being one of the top CDN's for the Video Game industry, has chosen Teradek's lineup of encoders, decoders and cloud management systems for E3 Expo 2015.
MobiTV Teams Up with Boost Mobile to Power New Video Streaming Service—boostTV
Deal Delivers Live and On-Demand Content to Boost Mobile’s No-Contract Smartphones
Popcornflix Launches Extreme Sports Genre
Free Streaming Movie and TV Service Adds Wild Spirits, Wild Surf and Other Exciting Content to Unique On-Demand Streaming Genre Devoted to Extreme Sports
TruConnect and OTT TV Service YipTV Form Innovative Joint Marketing Agreement
Deal gives TruConnect mobile subscribers access to YipTV’s live-channel TV broadcasts
BrightRoll Expands Technology Infrastructure to Drive Programmatic Video Growth in Asia Pacific
New data center in Hong Kong via Platform Equinix™ to deliver scalable programmatic solutions to buyers and sellers of digital video advertising in the region
Telestream Ships Tempo Time Adjustment Software