While most people assume that the cost of bandwidth is continuing to decline, the cost of delivering video over a content delivery network has gone up slightly this year. The big price drop in bandwidth has been on the network side of the business as opposed to the delivery side. Since most CDNs still charge […]
About a week ago, Break.com launched a new video player with some interesting capabilities that I have not seen on many other sites. These user controlled capabilities include TV-style picture controls that let you change brightness and colors of the video, a click and drag option to make the video window any size you want, […]
One of the topics that I presented on at Streaming Media East was entitled "Costs for Outsourced Hosting And Video Delivery". (on-demand video here) It was a packed room, with over 150 attendees listening to what the going rates are today for video delivery via outsourced delivery networks for both large and small volume. It’s […]
Thanks to everyone’s support, the blog did over 92,000 page views in the second month, up from 50,000 page views in the first month. As I said from day one, I believe that the contents and success of any real blog comes from the community rather than just one individual, which is why I feel […]
Last month, 24/7 Real Media nicely invited me to a private dinner they held in NYC with about a dozen executives to talk about "Video: The New 3.0" The attendees were from MLB, NBC, NBA, ESPN, Verizon FiOS, WallStrip.com and others. It was probably one of the most useful and productive gatherings I have been […]
With online video as hot as it is, I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about what I think of all the online video conferences and exhibitions that have popped up within the past twelve months. I’d also like to hear your comments on this topic as well. As far as I am concerned, […]
My earlier post got me thinking about why, in 2007, the average bitrate for a video file delivered via streaming media is still encoded in 300Kbps? Is it purely because content owners don’t want to pay more money to delivery their videos at higher bitrates? Or is the trade off between quality and price acceptable […]