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BitGravity’s newest features adjust video quality to your connection speed
VentureBeat —
... Content delivery network BitGravity has a different idea: Adding controls and quality variations on the server side, where the video is streamed out to users. The company is rolling out a new API today that will allow content distributors to add some features to their videos that they haven’t had easy access to before. ...
Contentonomics: HD Video Will Take Off When Its Business Model Works
TechWeb —
... particularly promising among cable companies -- thePlatform is owned by Comcast. With the switch from analog to digital broadcasting next year, cable companies will free up 50% more bandwidth in the cable pipe and 25% more when they move to switched video, he said. In other words, the capacity for HD video will be there. What content providers have to nurture is consumer demand and a business model to deliver it. As Perry Wu, co-founder and CEO of content distribution network BitGravity put it, "We have to get to a world where there's a revenue model."
Contentonomics: HD Video Will Take Off When Its Business Model Works
InformationWeek - All Stories —
... particularly promising among cable companies -- thePlatform is owned by Comcast. With the switch from analog to digital broadcasting next year, cable companies will free up 50% more bandwidth in the cable pipe and 25% more when they move to switched video, he said. In other words, the capacity for HD video will be there. What content providers have to nurture is consumer demand and a business model to deliver it. As Perry Wu, co-founder and CEO of content distribution network BitGravity put it, "We have to get to a world where there's a revenue model."
BitGravity Offers Video Producers More Control With Advanced Progressive API
Mashable! —
... So what BitGravity, a self-described content delivery network, is looking to do at the server side of media management, is give video producers more controls of their own, and all through its new Advanced Progressive API. ...
BitGravity Strikes Deal With SpaceX to Stream the Stars
Wired: Epicenter —
... BitGravity, which claims to be the “first carrier-grade live video
broadcasting solution for the Internet,” launched last fall, and introduced its live streaming product at the DEMO08 conference. In
addition to clients such as Revision3 and The Tom Green Show, it is currently in
talks with many of the major media companies and was picked up to
stream the Democratic National Convention. ...
Sun co-founder departs to challenge Cisco
VentureBeat —
Pounded by the stock markets after a poor showing in its recent earnings report, Sun Microsystems now has another thing to worry about: Co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, who most recently served as chief architect for its systems group, is leaving to help run a startup called Arista that will reportedly make networking equipment for a growing industry segment.
Aside from helping to found Sun in 1982 with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla and Bill Joy (the latter two are now venture capitalists), Bechtolsheim is famous for being one of the very first investors in Google, and also co-founded a ...
Strike.TV launches web network of original Hollywood shows
901am —
... featuring original HD Web videos from well-known Hollywood creators. The portal represents the first formal effort to bring the writers of some of Hollywood’s most successful and popular franchises to the world of online video. The company will operate a programmed format and currently has over forty original Web series and shorts, which encompass a wide variety of genres that will roll out daily on www.Strike.TV.
Strike.TV’s Web series will stream in HD with the help of BitGravity Inc., a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Episodic which provides the video ...
BitGravity has "Multiview" Product, Report
Beet.TV —
... BitGravity, a new content delivery network (CDN) which is largely focused on streaming high quality live video, has a new product out which delivers six high-def video streams at once. The development was reported by ...
Roundup: A tragedy on Justin.tv, Obama’s cell records improperly accessed and more
VentureBeat —
... BitGravity brings an emcompassing HD picture — The content delivery network has a new product called Multiview which shows six synced up high definition video streams at once. You can easily switch which one is the focus by clicking on it. ...
Adobe Looking to Acquire; Who Should It Buy? [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network —
... A smaller, newer CDN player, maybe something along the lines of BitGravity. What with the Adobe AIR-based Adobe Media Player on the consumption end and all the Flash serving infrastructure, you could even go the whole nine yards and buy one of the many white-label video players to get closer to offering a complete package video solution. ...
DEMO: BitGravity launches high-definition video streaming service
VentureBeat —
BitGravity is launching a digital video service today that allows its customers to stream high-definition videos over the Internet.
The BG Live service can stream live events in 1080p or 720p resolution (the same quality as high-end TV sets), according to the company’s announcement at DEMO 2009 today.
The Flash-based service does not require that customers download a viewing client, and Burlingame, Calif.-based BitGravity says the service is inexpensive and easy to set up. Perry Wu, chief executive of BitGravity, said the HD service is an improvement over the ...
DEMO Roundup: Doing more with less, a smarter Internet, and more
VentureBeat —
... Mobile AddressBook — The concept of another address book for your mobile phone may sound unnecessary, but Asurion says it creates a “people-centric index” of your connections and communications, helping users sort through the clutter.
Vue Personal Video Network — A network of small wireless cameras that stream video directly to the web. You can watch Vue’s video streams on any Flash-enabled device.
BG Live HD — Read our coverage of BitGravity’s high-definition video streaming ...
Breaking down DEMO’s social footprint
VentureBeat —
... For the first time this year, DEMO partnered with Facebook and Bitgravity to produce DEMO Live, a real-time video stream of the conference’s sessions. Viewers from around the world had the chance to engage in live conversation with each other and actual DEMO attendees. More than 230,000 people visited the DEMO Live page during the two days to ask questions, comment on each of the 39 product demonstrations — and often to share their unbridled enthusiasm for some of the new concepts taking the stage. Here’s how it looked: ...
