April online streaming and media news overview

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    Continuing to get acquainted daily with industry news, I evaporate those that may be useful in my work. The past months have shown that there are many interesting things, this month was no exception.

    NAB Show 2015

    For me personally, the main news of the month was the NAB Show 2015 , held in Las Vegas.

    Upon arrival, I wrote a short review of the trip , where he outlined his impressions and posted photographs taken on the run. There are general plans, and pictures of quadrocopters and stuff like that. If you work in the field of online media - I think you should seriously consider a trip to this event.

    Later in the news I saw a small video report about the DASH Industry Forum networking receptionin which he took part. Our team is an associate member in DASH-IF, and I was also invited. On the video I again listened to those people with whom I had the opportunity to personally communicate. They give a good overview of where the MPEG-DASH standard is located and what to expect in the future.

    A huge number of interesting things were presented at the exhibition, which could be read about in April in specialized publications. For example, who are interested in iron, Streaming Media magazine presented its version of Best products from the exhibition.

    Exhibition picture

    Money

    First, let's look at the transactions of sale.

    An interesting review of The Biggest Streaming Media Mergers and Acquisitions of 2014 gives an idea of ​​activity in the Western online media market.

    2015 will also not be an exception in this supermarket run. For example, LinkedIn buys Lynda.com, an online learning service. This is one of the oldest online learning sites that is not up to date.

    Akamai buys in cash Octoshape, which works with data transfer optimization technologies.

    Gazprom-Media cancels the sale of Rutube, Now.ru and Zoomby to Rostelecom. They will reformat and develop further.

    Amazon Web Service has become the most profitable corporate cloud. Bezos decided to open reporting on AWS and, to put it mildly, surprised analysts.

    But not everyone is so lucky. Tidal's music streaming service didn’t live up to expectations , the hosts - well-known media characters -fighting for his survival . We had to try to be blown away in a growing market. If you look at the news of March, you will see news about the excellent dynamics of the music streaming market.

    Well, a little more about the struggle of formats. The first persons of Channel One believe that the Internet is not a competitor to television . In the battle of the elephant and the whale, Ernst is clearly on the side of the elephant.

    Technology

    Favorite heading “From the life of quadrocopters”: Dawn of the Drone: An Aerial Video and Photo Primer . A very entertaining article about what drones are and how to use them for aerial filming.

    This news is also about money, but still more about technology. Jan Ozer talks about HEVC Patent Pool- how the new HEVC patent pool will affect the industry.
    By the way, StreamingMedia posted his speech from last year's conference: Producing and Distributing HEVC . It addresses both technological issues and the issue of money.
    In general, the transition to new technology is expected no earlier than next year.

    By the way, a few words about this author - someone may be interested in his recent selection of DRM Resources on Streaming Learning Center .

    A little bit about standards.

    Fresh The State of HTML5 video from JWPlayer will talk about how things are going with video through the built-in browser tools.

    MPEG-DASH Device Compatibilityfrom bitmovin is useful for those who are going to work with DASH.

    Anyone who uses HTTP-based formats for streaming will find Optimal segment length for adaptive streaming formats like MPEG-DASH & HLS useful .

    Something like this. We will continue to follow the news.

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