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Streaming: MPEG-DASH

Welcome back to our blog and our sixth appointment with our Streaming Mini Series; it's been five Articles since we took off on our journey through the Streaming panorama's complexity and to be totally frank with you – which we are, we barely scraped the surface. We expect another three Articles –[...]

4K Streaming - What to Expect?

One of the latest trends in technology, the 4K Ultra HD is about to get much bigger. the impact of 4K is growing month by month. The new resolution format itself is slowly starting to remake perceptions of where the entire visual media industry will be going over the next few years. Consumers want[...]

Streaming: Microsoft SmoothStreaming

Let’s steer back to where we came from, our Streaming Mini Series, and our fifth, brand new Article on Microsoft’s Smooth Streaming (a.k.a. “Silverlight”): Microsoft’s Standards and answer to Adobe and Apple in the HTTP Streaming arena, though it did not meet the widest Audience inception (as[...]

Streaming: HDS VS HLS – “Which is better?”

Thanks for checking us back again! As a short recap on our Streaming Mini-Series so far, we’ve started by analyzing the overall difference between Streaming Technologies and Progressive Downloads (something we still owe a proper introduction to, and we’ll cover as we move forward), and then started[...]

Streaming: Adobe HDS

Our Streaming MiniSeries continues today; after our grand opening with RTMP and our second article regarding HLS (or HTTP Live Streaming), our focus today is all around HDS (or HTTP Dynamic Streaming). For although HLS sounds very much of a compromise between Adobe and Apple, HDS is instead all[...]

Streaming: Adobe HLS

Welcome back to the Second Article pertaining to our Streaming MiniSeries; in the previous, opening Article, we introduced Streaming as a high level concept in the Delivery Panorama and focused on Streaming via RTMP, an Adobe proprietary Protocol.

Streaming: Adobe RTMP Explained

Today we open another Posts Mini-Series, this time around we’ll focus on Streaming. As you may know , we are Streaming enthusiasts and most part of our daily business revolves around assisting and consulting on Streaming Solutions. Now that we think of it, this introductory Streaming Posts Mini[...]