SeaChange International unveiled its latest video delivery and monetization advancements for TV service providers and content owners at the 2016 NAB Show this week, including video streaming to Google Android TV devices.
SeaChange video back office demonstrations are highlighting streaming of live channels, time shifted and on-demand services running on the SeaChange Adrenalin multiscreen TV platform and Rave OTT platform. Show attendees can see unified video experiences and hands-on interaction across TVs, Apple and Android mobile devices, as well as Google Nexus Player and Nvidia Shield.
At NAB in Las Vegas, Comcast Platform Services companies Comcast Wholesale and thePlatform unveiled theVideoPlatform to unify broadcast and online video technologies and offer “one of the most comprehensive solutions for video management, publication, distribution and monetization.” theVideoPlatform is built on the foundation of Comcast’s entertainment and media infrastructure and is powered by its online video platform, mpx.
theVideoPlatform is built to enable broadcasters, operators, multichannel networks and publishers to launch, manage and provide video across “any screen, at any time.” It’s an end-to-end solution that reportedly provides customers with the flexibility to choose individual services or the full technology stack. It is built on open APIs and industry standard architecture.
Conax, part of the Kudelski Group, introduced its new Contego as a Service cloud-based content protection service. The new offering is based on the Conax Contego security platform. Hosted, monitored and maintained by Conax, the company says the highly flexible and modular content security back-end provides operators with key benefits such as low upfront CAPEX investment, short time-to-market and easy activation of additional features as their platform grows.
“Outsourcing the content security to Conax will allow operators to focus on their core business: providing competitive, future-oriented consumer services,” Tom Jahr, EVP products and marketing, says. “Conax’s highly modular, flexible content protection in the cloud will provide key operator business benefits such as premium scalability, easy integration of new advanced features and services, fast deployment and low investment in on-site hardware.”
Additional Conax features at the NAB Show include the company’s partnership with middleware provider Mirada. “We’ll be demonstrating the new joint offering featuring Mirada’s leading TV Everywhere platform and consumer device interface and Conax’ advanced content protection hub,” Jar adds.
IneoQuest Technologies released its Surveyor ABR Active, a video quality monitoring solution that verifies video content is continuously available, in every bit rate and format. “Acting as a video provider’s most critical viewer, Surveyor ABR Active monitors and measures video flows 24/7 and issues alerts when content is not playing at its specified quality,” according to the company.
“Verifying the quality and availability of multiscreen/OTT video is a complex challenge. Today, viewers have more competitive OTT options than ever before, and with more than half of consumers experiencing ‘buffer rage’ when content stalls, there is low tolerance for providers delivering videos that are pixilated, slow to start or buffer mid-program,” Matthew Driscoll, product management director, IneoQuest says. “Surveyor ABR Active helps to eliminate the risk of churn and moves the industry beyond reactive approaches to proactive quality assurance monitoring.”
Surveyor ABR Active reporteldy leverages “client emulation” technology to run automated, synthetic testing – on up to 500 adaptive bit rate streaming sessions simultaneously. IneoQuest says you simply point Surveyor ABR Active at the content you want to monitor, and it “plays” the video to measure key performance indicators (KPIs). This testing is complementary to client-based monitoring solutions, such as IneoQuest’s AMP/Spectator offering, which leverage software in the playback device to monitor a viewer’s quality and their associated responses in real time.