De #Hoeksteen Video-On-Request 2013.02.08/09

De Hoeksteen Live! 2013.02.08/09 on SALTO 1 TV & the web from Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam.

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The Adventures of Honey West

Jacob Witzenhausen has the pleasure of inviting you to the opening of “The Adventures of Honey West”, a new solo show by internationally celebrated colombian artist Raul Marroquin.

The adventures of Honey West is a series of photos, videos, tabletop installations and live events.

Please join us on thursday november the 8th from 6 to 8 p.m. at

Witzenhausen Gallery
547 West 27th Street, ground floor
New York, N.Y. 10001
rsvp to info@witzenhausengallery.nl.

For any additional information or assistance,
please contact the gallery at
info@witzenhausengallery.nl or 212 239 1124

ABI Research: Online video seen as multi-billion dollar threat to pay TV revenues

Nearly 20 percent of online consumers thinking about replacing pay TV

October 24, 2012 | By Jim Barthold

The old cord-cutting argument has come around for another turn thanks to the ABI Research Technology barometer study that says cord-cutters–or at least consumers who dump pay TV for online video–could cost MVPDs (multichannel video programming distributors) about $16.8 billion.

The research predicts that U.S. pay TV household penetration will decline about 0.5 percent per year through 2017, even if the economy recovers, because “consumers have additional entertainment choices like improved online and over-the-top (OTT) video experiences.”

It could be said, of course, that many MVPDs are already following ABI’s advice on how to combat this trend via their own OTT-like services, or what ABI calls “lightweight Pay TV offerings.

Source:

http://www.fierceonlinevideo.com/story/abi-research-online-video-seen-multi-billion-dollar-threat-pay-tv-revenues/2012-10-24

Amazon Takes a Swing at the iPad Mini

Amazon has begun advertising the Kindle Fire HD, its 7-inch $199 tablet, on the home page and included blow-by-blow comparisons with Apple‘s AAPL +0.22% more expensive 7.9-inch iPad Mini.

Apple’s executives have been critical of 7-inch tablets like the Kindle Fire HD. Apple CEO Tim Cook reiterated that on its most recent earnings call: “Let me be clear, we would not make a 7-inch tablet. We don’t think they’re good products.”

While Apple has touted the size of the iPad Mini as an advantage over the Kindle Fire HD and other smaller 7-inch tablets, the iPad Mini also sports a lower resolution than some of those tablets, coming in at 1,024 by 768 pixels, or 163 pixels per inch. The Kindle Fire HD has a sharper display, with about 216 pixels per inch.

Amazon’s tagline is, “much more for much less,” zeroing in on the difference between the price of its tablet and the $329 iPad Mini, and the screen comparison.

In a statement to AllThingsD, Amazon said “Wednesday was the $199 Kindle Fire HD’s biggest day of sales since launch and up 3x week over week.”

The major advantage Apple has over Amazon and other tablet-makers, however, is that the iPad Mini launches with 275,000 apps supporting it, because it has the same resolution as the iPad 2. Amazon’s tablet, and app ecosystem, is still much newer.

Source:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/10/29/amazon-takes-a-swing-at-the-ipad-mini/

CEA backs Aereo in fight against CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS

October 29, 2012 | By Steve Donohue

The Consumer Electronics Association said Monday that it is backing Aereo in its copyright battle against CBS (NYSE: CBS), NBC, Fox and 14 other broadcasters that are attempting to shutter its platform that delivers live feeds from 20 New York TV stations to smartphones, tablets and other IP-connected devices.

The lobbying group said it filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in support of Aero. In the brief, CEA cites the 1984 Sony Betamax case, which allowed Sony (NYSE: SNE) and other CE manufacturers to sell VCRs to TV viewers despite protests from Hollywood studios. In a statement issued Monday, CEA CEO Gary Shapiro called the Betamax case “the Magna Carta decision of our industry defining the full recording of broadcast television as a fair use and allowing innovation in technology.”

“In Sony, it was time shifting broadcasting by a VCR; in Aereo, it is accessing free broadcasting through a computer. In both cases, the technology expands the audience, is consistent with broadcaster-borrowed use of public spectrum for free, over-the-air broadcasting and is being challenged as it is disruptive, new and not allowing consumer control by old industries,” Shapiro added.

Source:

http://www.fiercecable.com/story/cea-backs-aereo-fight-against-cbs-nbc-fox-pbs/2012-10-29

RealNetworks Launches DASH-Compatible Helix Server

At last week’s Streaming Media Europe, a panel of representatives from various streaming server companies talked about the benefits and shortcomings of their server options. While we’ve already covered that session from the Video Infrastructure Summit in detail, one comment by a RealNetworks representative stuck out.

“We’ve already built DASH support into Helix Universal Server,” said RealNetworks global partner director David Smith. “We are ready for DASH.”

Smith was referring to MPEG DASH, or dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP, a topic that’s enveloped the streaming industry as it moves toward a standards-based adaptive-bitrate scheme.

Smith’s comment was timely, as RealNetworks has announced that DASH support is baked in to its newest Helix Universal Server. Version 15 (v15) of the Helix server will be available in November for customer launch on Windows machines, and soon after for Linux machines.

Helix v15 offers DASH support for both live and on-demand profiles. More interestingly, it will also offer support for both ISO Base Media File Format (ISO BMFF, or fragmented MP4) as well as MPEG-2 Transport Streams (M2TS).

The trend in the industry is towards support of live- and on-demand profiles for fMP4, with limited support for M2TS streams—at least until Apple decides to join the DASH party and convert HTTP Live Stream (HLS) to DASH-compliant output.

Real, however, says it wants to support all fMP4 and M2TS DASH profiles today.

“Our delivery server for MPEG2-TS and ISO-BMFF profiles is key to our universal format approach,” says Mike Womack, senior director for the Helix product line, as part of a Real-sponsored interview trip in late September. “Our Helix Client SDK for Android was fully tested with Helix Server v15 and supports ISO-BMFF(MP4) DASH streaming.”

Helix v15, said Womack, builds on RealNetworks’ move towards simplification.

“HTTP is the desired delivery protocol for over-the-top (OTT) and web-based video delivery,” says Womack. “The industry is moving away from proprietary delivery systems, but still needs universal-format servers to deal with legacy content.

While many pieces of legacy content are encoded with an H.264-compliant codec, allowing Helix to repackage content for DASH, HLS, and even RTMP delivery, Real also sees a large addressable market of content owners who still have content in one of Real’s early proprietary formats.

“Helix can transcode that RealVideo content to H.264 content,” says Womack, “so that it can be delivered via DASH or HLS. We don’t know of any other server capable of providing legacy support for all content formats.”

According to Womack, the Helix Client SDK for Android can be used in Android applications to create an end-to-end delivery solution that includes the Helix server and a client app. Interestingly, the Helix SDK can be used to deliver HLS content to Android OS 2.2 and higher. Google has added integral support for HLS in Android OS version 3 or higher, but has not addressed the larger addressable market of pre Android OS 3.0 devices.

Helix v15 also allows for IP stream ingest, with the ability to ingest video from a single-source IP stream.  On the output side, Helix can also stream via the legacy MPEG2 Transport Stream protocol, allowing customers to stream video to legacy set top boxes, and can use the HLS derivative of MPEG2 Transport Stream to allow what Real calls “HLS time shifting”.

Womack also notes that H.264-encoded content can be streamed as RTSP or RTMP in addition to HLS and DASH.

“We’ve tested a variety of encoders to confirm that Helix v15 is compatible,” says Womack, including “Envivio, Digital Rapids, Haivsion, MediaExcel, and Viewcast encoders.”

Finally, Helix has digital rights management (DRM) support for a number of device types, including devices based on several key operating systems: Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows.

“V15 provides simultaneous secure key exchange,” says Womack. “Individual live or on-demand content can be encrypted on-the-fly for HLS delivery to viewers on a wide range of devices including set-top boxes, connected TVs, smartphones and tablets.”

Real’s DRM leans heavily on Verimatrix‘s DRM solutions, using Verimatrix VCAS for HLS devices—via the ViewRight plug-in—as well as the ViewRight Client on PCs and set-top box devices. In addition, Real says that PlayReady support should be available in an upcoming dot release.

Pricing was not immediately available, but Real says it conforms to general industry pricing offered by major competitors.

Source:

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-News/RealNetworks-Launches-DASH-Compatible-Helix-Server–85800.aspx

Nokia confirms Windows Phone device for Verizon

Nokia announced its Lumia 822 smartphone, the vendor’s first Windows Phone smartphone for the biggest US operator, Verizon Wireless.

While the struggling Finnish handset giant has offered CDMA versions of its Windows Phone devices for China Telecom, the company’s US efforts have been focused on its WCDMA-family products for AT&T and T-Mobile USA.

The announcement came ahead of a Windows Phone 8 press event scheduled for later today, with Microsoft promising “big, cool stuff”.

The Lumia 822 will support Verizon Wireless’ LTE network and, according to Nokia’s US website, will be a “world phone” with GSM/WCDMA support alongside CDMA. It will have a 4.3-inch screen, 8-megapixel camera, and be powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor.

In terms of specifications, the Lumia 822 appears comparable with the Lumia 820, a recently-announced device for WCDMA/LTE networks. AT&T is set to offer this, and its more feature-rich Lumia 920 sibling, next month.

Pricing and availability for the Verizon device has not been confirmed – but early November, and US$99 with contract, has been widely reported.

The US has long been something of a weak spot for Nokia, both in terms of smartphones and for its device range as a whole.

While the company’s Symbian smartphone platform was dominant globally until usurped by Android and iOS, it never achieved traction in this region, with few devices making it into operator portfolios.

Although Nokia has recently renewed its focus on the US, this has yet to come to fruition: in Q3 2012, it shipped just 300,000 units in the North America region (including Canada), half of the 600,000 it moved in Q2.

It noted “lower operator and distributor demand for Lumia, as well as our efforts to prepare the distribution channel for the upcoming sales start of new devices”.

Verizon’s Windows Phone list currently consists of HTC’s Trophy, a Windows Phone 7.5 device. It is also set to offer a WP8 device from HTC, and reports have linked it with an as-yet unannounced Samsung smartphone using the same platform.

Source:

http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/articles/nokia-confirms-windows-phone-device-for-verizon-wireless/25789?elq=b0b8dc22af39439c95f2fe4d3fecd846

Flexible Matrix Router with Realtime Video Thumbnails

Let’s take a look at operating the Avenue router from an iPad.

As you see on the screen, there are thumbnails for the sources and destinations. I can select a destination – which happens to be my program monitor – and I can select source 3  – which is the waveform monitor. Next I push Take and now that (source 3) is on the program monitor.  

I can also change what’s going to the preview monitor by selecting something that’s over here, like color bars and pushing Take. Now the color bars are going to that monitor.  

There’s a shortcut to selecting sources. If I put the iPad into Direct Mode, when I select a destination and a source, it will Take immediately. For example, select black as your source, and it goes there, select  preview and it goes there. So whatever destination is selected, it’s a very quick and direct way of getting there. That’s why the Direct button is lit.  

Let’s look at some of the controls now.  

Up in the left corner, if you click, you get to the Systems Settings. On the right is the layout and size of the icons. For example, if I want a bunch of small icons on the iPad and large icons on the destinations, I can select larger icons for the bottom. You get to customize exactly how the user interface looks.  

The last control on this iPad is the Gang button. When you select Gang you can select several destinations and one source that you want to go to all those destinations. Select them and hit Take.  

And if you really want to be slick, you can select Direct and Gang, and when those two are selected, and you select your destinations, the source you selected will automatically go to both of those destinations.

Source:

http://ensemble.salesengine.tv/Flexible-Matrix-Router-with-Realtime-Video-Thumbnails.html?mtcCampaign=21897&mtcEmail=156691482

Ericsson sees business mix shifting towards services

Ericsson says that the overall network equipment market will grow by between 3- 5 percent (CAGR) over the next three years – significantly slower than the double digit growth expected in the services side of its business.

“This development will naturally imply a future business mix for Ericsson with more recurring software and services revenues,” said CEO Hans Vestberg – but he added that hardware would always remain “part of the mix and a key differentiator” for the Swedish vendor.

Ericsson has been impacted by a higher share of coverage and modernisation projects – rather than capacity expansions – in Europe, a situation it says is “expected to prevail short-term”, but will start to “gradually decline” at the end of this year.

The market outlook (2012-2015) in Ericsson’s key equipment market segments – radio, IP/transport and core – is expected to be 4-6 percent (CAGR). In radio a CAGR of 2-4 percent is expected; in IP and transport a CAGR of 6-8 percent; and in core a CAGR of 0-2 percent.

Meanwhile, the market for support solutions is forecast to show a CAGR of 9-11 percent, including a CAGR of 12-14 percent for the media market. The market for OSS/BSS software and services is expected to show a CAGR of 5-7 percent.

Ericsson sees mobile broadband, managed services and OSS/BSS as “areas with portfolio momentum.”

Source:

http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/articles/ericsson-sees-business-mix-shifting-towards-services/25871

LIVE PERFORMANCE / TINYCHAT – STREAMIN” PARTY

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LIVE PERFORMANCE / TINYCHAT – STREAMIN” PARTY  by Miyo Van Stenis and Systaime for [Sunday Matinees] by Caridad Botella in the MAC (Contemporrary Art Museum, Bogota) via Livestream:

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