Beet.tv | August 25, 2008
Not surprising that Microsoft will be a strategic investor in Move Networks, the small Utah startup which has introduced a new way to stream high quality online video through a process called adaptive streaming.
In April at NAB in Las Vegas, I interviewed Microsoft’s Steve Skleplowich about the newly announced alliance between Microsoft and Move. He explains what a future alliance will mean — it’s all about Silverlight.
You can see this in action now, with the Democratic National Convention streaming live high quality video.
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TechCrunch | August 25, 2008
Microsoft making a strategic investment in Move Networks, which helps deliver Web video for Silverlight-powered sites. Technically, the investment will be a follow-on to the $46 million C round Move announced last April. But it involves an undisclosed amount of new money.
With the Olympics over (NBC’s video was all Silverlight, although not powered by Move), Microsoft is now focusing on the Democratic Convention
Website, where Move will help to distribute the HD streams in Silverlight.
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CNet | August 25, 2008
Microsoft has invested in Internet TV company Move Networks for an undisclosed sum, in a move to broaden the reach of its video streaming technology.
The investment comes roughly five months after the two companies struck a strategic partnership. In March, Microsoft said it would begin supporting Move Network’s video streaming technology within its own cross-browser video platform, Silverlight, which lets publishers customize navigation and ads. As part of Monday’s deal, Move Networks said it will support Windows Server-based encoding, Microsoft video-compression technology (codecs), and Silverlight’s digital rights management (DRM).
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VideoNuze | August 21, 2008
As the first “Broadband Olympics” begin to wind down, the American political conventions are next up to get the broadband video treatment. While certainly not Olympian in their popularity, the conventions still have a rabid following among many, and given the particular dynamics of this year’s election cycle, they are attracting far broader interest than usual.
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NewTeeVee.com | August 25, 2008
The Democratic party itself is streaming the whole event in HD-quality at DemConvention.com (along with a Spanish language simulcast). Coverage begins at 3 p.m., but they have “countdown” videos up now. Move Networks and Microsoft’s Silverlight are powering the video for the convention, and the quality of the video that’s up now is quite good.
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Shelly Palmer | August 28, 2008
While the cable networks are doing their best to cover every aspect of the activities at the DNC, they simply can’t cover everything. And, certainly nothing but the biggest names are covered by the broadcast nets. However, there is one place where you can see and experience absolutely everything you might want to see in HD. Even if you don’t have an HD television set or a DVR. www.demconvention.com.
The site uses a technology from Move Networks that will deliver HD-quality video to your computer and, in fact, it adjusts the video automatically to take advantage of the combination of the speed of your Internet connection and the quality of your computer. The video is brought to you commercial free and, more importantly, commentary free. It is just like being in the hall.
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Washington Post | August 25, 2008
Yes, I know..we don’t need more coverage of the Democratic convention which started this evening, but I have to point out the live video feeds online. Every major site and TV network is live streaming it online in full, including MSNBC.com, ABCnews.com ( on Yahoo News), CNN.com, CBSnews.com, FoxNews.com and Cspan (with a very nice aggregation site). Surprisingly, everyone has a bit of lag in the live feed, or at least not synced up with each other. . . .
But the most awesome (I have probably never used that word in seven years of this site) online video feed is on the official Democratic Convention site, on DemConvention.com site. It is in HD, and uses Move Networks’ plugin and using Microsoft Silverlight.
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Washington Post | August 20, 2008
At Intel’s ( NSDQ: INTC) Developer Forum in San Francisco, Move Networks announced today that it was going to adapt its high-definition media player that streams content over the Internet for mobile Internet devices (or MIDs) using Intel processors and Linux software by Moblin. Move Networks CEO John Edwards said: “The lines between the TV, the computer and mobile devices are blurring, while user demand for high-quality Internet television programming that they can view on all of these platforms is growing.
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