Video Breakthroughs

SyncTV, the leader in delivering television services to the largest set of Internet-connected TVs, mobile devices, and other media-enabled devices, today announced it will showcase a Hybrid Broadcasting TV (HbbTV) 1.5 solution demonstration, in conjunction with Harmonic, at International Broadcasting Convention 2012. SyncTV will showcase a live MPEG-DASH demo and multi-screen solution along with TF1 and MStar at IBC 2012 at the Harmonic booth (1.B20).

The solution uses Marlin DRM with MPEG-DASH adaptive streaming, and feeds off an industry-leading encoder, developed by Harmonic. By combining HbbTV and Marlin DRM, the standards-based over-the-top (OTT) TV solution offers a flexible platform for streaming broadcast content across multiple screens.

Read also : http://intertrust.com/ibc2012_demo

Broadpeak, a leading provider of content delivery networks (CDN) and video-on-demand (VOD) servers for cable, IPTV, OTT, and hybrid TV operators worldwide, today launched nanoCDN, a revolutionary CDN technology that leverages home networks to dramatically reduce infrastructure investments for operators and enable them to more efficiently deliver high-quality video services to end users. The first application of nanoCDN will be used for live OTT video delivery, with more applications to be supported in the future. Broadpeak will showcase nanoCDN for the first time at IBC2012 in Amsterdam.

nanoCDN improves the scalability of live OTT TV content by effectively managing video consumption peaks that are not supported by the network infrastructure. Utilizing nanoCDN, cable and telecom operators can cost-effectively deliver high-quality, live OTT video services to millions of simultaneous viewers using only a few megabits per second from the operator network. nanoCDN can seamlessly be integrated with any existing video headend. Completely transparent to end users, the cost-effective solution does not require a dedicated client and is compatible with any DRM system.

Product information : http://www.broadpeak.tv/en/technologies/nanocdn-25.php

More information : http://bit.ly/RwTaQ5

At IBC 2012, Tvinci, the Pay-OTT platform provider, will demonstrate what the company calls their ‘OTT 2.0’ platform and discuss the market drivers behind it. Tvinci will showcase the new features developed for creating an advanced social and personal TV experience, where viewers watch, rate, recommend and intuitively share content with friends, on any device.

Tvinci will also launch their Mobile 2.0 app for tablets and smartphones, enabling the usage of two devices in “companion mode’. In this mode end users can use their mobile device for browsing and selecting a TV show through a social EPG that shows what their friends are watching, and then swipe it to preview on a TV set (powered by a STB or SmartTV). The companion device can also become a remote control so that users can browse for the next show and socialize while they watch uninterrupted.

Lightspeed Server adds GPU accelerated transcoding, increasing speed and quality for hundreds of file formats; Transcode Multiscreen automates complete workflow for OTT, tablet and mobile content preparation and delivery.

Transcode Multiscreen and Lightspeed™ Server work together to provide GPU acceleration of video processing and H.264 encoding and to enable blazing-fast speeds. Support for Apple HLS, Adobe® HTTP Dynamic Streaming, Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming, MPEG-DASH and MP4 formats is included. Transcode Multiscreen automates the entire process of source file decoding, parallelized H.264 encoding, creation of adaptive bit rate packages with encryption, archiving, delivery and notification.