Broadcast Buyer | September 12, 2008
Inuk Networks has announced a strategic partnership that aims to revolutionise the Internet television experience for service providers, content owners and consumers.
Under the agreement, Inuk will integrate Move Networks’ video publishing system, including Move Simulcode and Move Adaptive Stream, to deliver a combined solution using Inuk’s igloo virtual Set-Top Box solution for PCs and Macs. Inuk will also offer a complete wholesale solution for content owners and platform operators, including the combined technology solution plus hosting, systems integration, billing, play-out, support and CDN services.
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TVOver.net | September 12, 2008
Inuk and Move Networks form a strategic partnership that aims to revolutionize the Internet television experience for service providers, content owners and consumers. Under the agreement, Inuk will integrate Move Networks’ video publishing system, including Move Simulcode and Move Adaptive Stream, to deliver a combined solution using Inuk’s igloo virtual Set-Top Box solution for PCs and Macs. Inuk will also offer a complete wholesale solution for content owners and platform operators, including the combined technology solution plus hosting, systems integration, billing, play-out, support and CDN services.
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CBR Networking | September 18, 2008
Inuk Networks, a triple-play service provider, and Move Networks, a provider of online television services, have announced a strategic partnership that aims to transform the internet television experience for service providers, content owners and consumers.
Under the agreement, Inuk will integrate Move Networks’s video publishing system, including Move Simulcode and Move Adaptive Stream, to deliver a combined solution using Inuk’s igloo virtual set-top box solution for PCs and Macs. Inuk will also offer a complete wholesale solution for content owners and platform operators, including the combined technology solution plus hosting, systems integration, billing, play-out, support and content delivery network services.
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Broadcasting & Cable | September 16, 2008
Compression supplier claims 50% improvement for bandwidth efficiency.
Compression supplier On2 Technologies released at IBC2008 the eighth generation of its Web-video codec, On2 VP8, which it said can deliver the same video quality in one-half the bandwidth of existing implementations of H.264 advanced video compression.
Clifton Park, N.Y.-based On2—which gained a significant foothold in Web video when its On2 VP6 codec was integrated into Adobe’s wildly popular Flash Player in 2005—said the VP8 was designed to deliver high video quality for popular TV content using mainstream computer processors.
Since the VP8 bit stream requires fewer processing cycles to decode, On2 chief technology officer Paul Wilkins said, consumers don’t need superpowered laptops or PCs to watch HD video on the Web.
One of the Web-video players that will adopt the new On2 codec is Move Networks, which provides a sophisticated client-server-based compression solution for high-quality Web video to major programmers like Disney, ESPN, Fox and The CW.
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Beet.TV | September 18, 2008
ABC Television has just introduced a sharable video player for short-form segments from its entertainment line-up. I’ve posted the player here on Beet.TV. Later tonight the company will introduce a revamped video player, with a greatly enhanced user interface.
Although the introduction of sharable player for short form video is not new, NBC and others have had them for some time, the evolution of the highly regarded, Move Networks-powered video player, is one to watch.
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Contentinople | September 12, 2008
Broadband video provider Inuk Networks has chosen Move Networks Inc. and its adaptive streaming technology to deliver broadcast TV direct to user PCs.
Inuk operates a service called Freewire that enables universities and service providers to offer IPTV services without investing in set-top boxes. By connecting direct to end user PCs, Inuk provides a “virtual set-top box” with the same features as broadcast TV services, including a full electronic program guide (EPG), instant channel change, picture-in-picture, and on-screen overlays.
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paidContent | September 12, 2008
Two more moves are afoot that see the integration of TV with the PC – and the arrival of the web on TV…
Welsh IPTV distributor Inuk, whose FreewireTV delivers 50+ channels to students’ personal PCs, has signed a deal to enhance the service. Inuk beams the TV to the desktop via Igloo, its software-based “virtual set-top box”, which joins the likes of Livestation and Zattoo in the PC- and Mac-based live TV game. It’s targeting the same TV-to-PC bridge market offered by the Slingbox, and Irish telco Magnet Networks this week adopted Igloo’s service to do just that.
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C21 Media | September 12, 2008
UK–based IPTV broadcaster Inuk Networks and US online TV streaming specialist Move Networks have formed a partnership they claim will revolutionise web TV.
Inuk will integrate Move Networks’ video publishing system, including Move Simulcode and Move Adaptive Stream, with its Igloo Freewire set–top–box solution.
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