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Discussing Discovery
Posted By: Ericka Wood | Posted: 3.14.2008
After the Digital Hollywood Media Summit in New York wound down last night, thePlatform was joined by 100 of our friends in the digital media industry for dinner and a conversation about increasing viewership through better content discovery. To spur the discussion, our CEO Ian Blaine invited three guests on stage to talk about approaches to growing our broadband video businesses.
thePlatform offers Harmonic’s Rhozet transcoding service
Posted By: Ericka Wood | Posted: 3.12.2008
Our new transcoding service is getting a lot of great feedback from our customers. Many people have asked what transcoding technology provider we selected to build our farm with. The answer is Rhozet ® Carbon Coder™, from Harmonic Inc.
New mpsManage Transcoding Service now in beta
Posted By: Ericka Wood | Posted: 3.4.2008
Transcoding, the direct digital-to-digital conversion from one codec to another, is a critical piece of the online media publishing process. It involves decoding/decompressing the original data to a raw intermediate format, and then re-encoding this into the target format.
Add Closed-Captioning and More to Your Online Video
Posted By: Ericka Wood | Posted: 2.15.2008
There are a whole lot of cool features in the newest version of our Player Development Kit (PDK). Among the updates is closed captioning, which If you've got broadband players created with our Player Development Kit (PDK), you can now add closed captioning via the SAMI format.
Red Herring comments on thePlatform Framework
Posted By: Ericka Wood | Posted: 2.8.2008
Making broadband technologies successful requires sticking with what's proven to work balanced with pushing at the perimeter to come up with new machinery that users find helpful. The way we develop our broadband video management and publishing technologies has always helped us find this balance.