I wanted to pass along the sad news that Ezra Davidson, former co-founder of SyncCast and a previous writer for StreamingMedia.com passed away over the New Year's holiday. Sadly, he was killed by a family member who the LA Times...

As the CES show in Vegas kicks off this week, the buzz and announcements around broadband enabled TVs is starting to heat up. Netflix and LG announced that come later this spring, a new line of broadband enabled LCD and...

Amazon just announced that in "early 2009" they will enable more than 40,000 commercial-free movies and television shows to be viewed with the Roku player. This marks the first new content partner for the Roku device which to date, was...

Today, Malaysia based Aflexi is pre-launching a new CDN platform targeting web hosting providers and small ISPs who want to enable CDN services across their network. The service is very similar in theory to Velocix's Metro service that was launched...

During the holidays, on December 29th, the Judge denied Limelight's motion for a summary judgment in their patent suit with Level 3 and stated the case will still go to trial. If you want to get a good overview of...

As expected, this morning Roku announced that the Roku player is now capable of playing hundreds of HD quality movies from Netflix. While my Roku player got the software update over the weekend, Roku says all players will be updated...

Over the weekend I got to read through the Markman order that was issued on December 10th in the Level 3 and Limelight Networks patent suit. While a Markman hearing typically does not bring a lot of surprises, there were...

Whenever StreamingMedia.com publishes an article on the subject of H.264, I get a lot of e-mails from readers saying that the licensing costs of H.264 are too expensive or are just too complex to even figure out. Those who sell...

Anyone who has read my blog long enough knows that I am always saying that content delivery networks need to offer a lot more functionality in their reporting and analytic packages. Earlier in the year, in a StreamingMedia.com survey of...

For those interested in the business, technology and content of online video, our annual Streaming Media Sourcebook will publish in February. It’s our biggest issue of the year, and it includes comprehensive year-in-review articles looking at the most notable developments...

In a story on Bloomberg this morning focusing on Pacnet delaying their public offering, CEO Bill Barney is also quoted talking about acquisitions in the content delivery market. He's quoted as saying, “We’ve been looking at acquisitions not only in...

Over the past few days I have been using tools to examine DNS and CNAME records for a lot of the major sites on the web to see which CDNs are delivering their content. While there have not been a...

Today, the NFL launched a new video on-demand service called Game Rewind that lets you watch every NFL game in HD quality, with no commercials. The service, which costs $19.99 for the season or $4.99 for a week pass, also...

For shareholders in any company, these days are trying times. I don't have to tell you that all stocks are down and the market has taken a beating. That being said, even when the market was doing better, I still...

Velocix has launched a new product named Velocix Metro that enables ISPs to deploy servers within their access network, providing them with their own content delivery network for video and other rich media content. (press release) While Verizon was the...

Level 3 announced today that it would be laying off 450 employees in North America or about 8% of their total workforce. While that's not good news for the company as a whole, the company has confirmed that the CDN...

Today, Cisco announced a new media media processing platform that provides media conversion, real-time post production, editing, formatting, and network distribution capabilities for formatting video and rich media on any device. The first product now offered for this new platform...

In an interview this week in the Wall Street Journal, Adobe's CEO said that with the recent round of layoffs, Adobe would be better focused to grow their online video business. That's good news to hear from Adobe because being...

Today, Sun officially launched JavaFX 1.0, a new development platform for building rich internet applications (RIA) for Web browsers and desktops. Sun's apparent belief is that with Java technology already being on more than 90 percent of desktops and laptops...

For all the talk of the poor economy and how tight VCs are being with their money, companies tied into the online video space still seem to be having no problems getting funding. A quick roundup of funding announcements over...