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Category: streaming media

  • Streaming Media Isn’t Just Streaming Media Anymore

    One of the recurring themes of the Streaming Media West conference is that “streaming media” is too narrow and no longer captures everything that is being discussed, and that most of the people here deal with. Podcasting and video blogging have been big topics, even if it’s clear that the folks here have no more…

  • Streaming Media West: Mobile Media

    This morning sessions were focused on mobile content, podcasting and video blogging. There weren’t any revelations to be had, though it’s interesting to know what the “industry” guys are thinking. Here’s my impressions about the first session: Mobile Media, Portable Media & Personal Broadcasting Refreshingly, none of the panelists fed a lot of hype, and…

  • Live At Streaming Media West

    I don’t talk too much about my day job here, but some of you may have gleaned that I work in media production at the University of Illinois. I’d say my specialty is digital production and streaming. I’m lucky enough to have my bosses send me to the Streaming Media West conference in San Jose,…

  • Real and Microsoft Kiss and Make Up, So What’s Next for Real?

    Long-time bitter rivals Microsoft and Real Networks decided to bury the hatchet yesterday, with Real settling its $1 billion lawsuit against Microsoft. Real had filed suit claiming that MS was using its monopoly power to prevent PC makers from installing competing media players, like Real’s. Now that MS has given up on the music download…

  • P2P TV

    infoAnarchy–which has been pretty slow to post new material as of late–features a short article on opern-source peer-to-peer based video broadcasting platforms. I haven’t tried any of them, but could be worth a shot. Video is bandwidth intensive and hosting anything that gets a lot of hits can get expensive fast.

  • House Approves Small Webcasters Bill – What Does It Mean?

    According to USA Today, on Monday the House of Representatives approved the deal hammered out between small webcasters and the music industry. The arrangement is basically unchanged, except for a last minute addition specifying that musicians will be “paid directly” for their share of royalties. Since the bill was introduced into the House and passed…

  • Better Webcast Fees for Small Webcasters Ready, but Can the Smallest Webcasters Escape Detection?

    According to the LA Times small on-line radio webcasters and the music industry have reached a deal to lower the royalty rates due record labels. These rates apply to webcasters with less than $1 million in annual revenue. Small webcasters were originally not invited to the table when the webcasting industry and record labels first…