The Business Of Online Video

Bandwidth Isn't Free, Distribution Isn't Free, So Why Should Content Be Free?

Dan Rayburn — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:02:41 -0400

As the cost of delivering video continues to get cheaper every year and video syndication to devices and platforms continues to grow, it seems more and more people are under the impression that access to premium video content should be free. Frankly, I don't see where this idea of "free" comes from. Video content costs money to produce, to distribute...

Free Product Giveaway: Six Slingbox PRO-HD Units Up For Grabs

Dan Rayburn — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:43:31 -0400

While the industry argues over what TV Everywhere should look like, consumers like me who have a Slingbox already have a true TV Everywhere solution. With Slingbox, you can access your full linear TV lineup wherever you go from your computer or mobile device. Simply put, for TV Everywhere, nothing beats a Slingbox. And thanks to the very generous folks...

Adobe Preparing To Launch Multicasting Support For Flash

Dan Rayburn — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:49:34 -0500

Back in October, Abobe announced a really long list of new functionality that would be supported in Flash Player 10.1, due out sometime this year. One of those features would be the long awaited support for multicasting that is essential to the way many enterprise organizations deliver video. While music, movies and game content delivered over CDNs in a unicast...

Save The Date: Online Video Networking Event In NYC, May 10th

Dan Rayburn — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:38:11 -0500

On Monday May 10th, we'll be teaming up with the NY Video Meetup group to once again host their monthly event at the Hilton Hotel in midtown, the night before the Streaming Media East show opens. Last year we had over 500 attendees watch six promising local online video startups demo their products followed by networking at the Bridges Bar...

Test Results Published Show Flash Is Not a "CPU Hog" Like Apple Claims

Dan Rayburn — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:04:46 -0500

There's been a lot of discussion on the blogsphere over the last few weeks due to Steve Jobs being quoted as saying one of the reasons Apple won't support Flash video on the upcoming iPad was due to Flash being a "CPU Hog". Apple's workaround to Flash video is to use HTML5 and that encouraged some to even suggest that...