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- NBC brings new media player features to Winter Olympics and NFL
- At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Vertigo CEO Scott Stanfield shows new HD video player features for the Winter Olympic Games, adding to its existing Sunday Night Football coverage. The new video player includes PVR features such as slow motion, fast-forward, and rewind, and gives users the ability...
- Tags: NBC Universal Inc., NFL, Video, Video Player, Media Player, Media Players, Corporate Communications, DVR, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Home Entertainment, Olympics
- Videos 2009-11-16
- Press "Upload" on that Video: "Point Is Not To Bust People,'' Says NBC
- Press "Upload" on that Video: "Point Is Not To Bust People,'' Says NBCMagnificent RevolutionI have to tell you I'm included in the world's NUMBER ONE Fans of this video/technology revolution. I've grown with it starting with words and individual pictures that took too long to load in 1995. I...
- Tags: NBC Universal Inc., video
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL games
- Adobe just announced that the NFL is going to use Flash to deliver live, online streaming video for NBC Sunday and Thursday night football games. You can go watch the games on NBCSports.com right now. It looks like they used Flex to build the player and I assume they're using...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Corporate Communications, Games, Live Streaming, Marketing, NBC Universal Inc., NFL, Personal Technology, Ryan Stewart, Video, Video Quality
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- How the world watched the Olympics online
- How the world watched the Olympics onlineI got sick of itI live in Germany, and the experience sucked big time. For those of you who don't know, in Germany you pay a TV and radio tax of about 26 dollar per month to subsidize public channels. The rule is: if...
- Tags: CBC, Microsoft Silverlight, NBC Universal Inc., Olympic Games
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- How the world watched the Olympics online
- Much has been made of NBC's Olympic numbers, which had the rights for online video in the US, and what that means for Silverlight. I thought the app was solid, the video quality was good, and all in all it was a win for Microsoft and RIAs. In that vein,...
- Tags: China, Olympic Games, British Broadcasting Corp., Video, Flash, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- 2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the Wall
- 2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the WallInteresting proposalI like your idea. some thoughts:First: two separate approaches 1) a media center PC to output to the TV & 2) use consolesSecond: Allow for user created chat rooms (audio/text) like IRC channels with audio. That allows the end user...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Webcam, Phelp
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- CISCO: Why the Olympics didn’t melt NBC
- Yesterday I posted about how Limelight Networks was used as the primary caching content provider for NBCOlympics.com and lifted a huge burden off on the public Internet by leveraging relationships with last mile ISPs. It's an amazing story about how technology can be used to solve immense problems. ...
- Tags: Camera, Cisco Systems Inc., Corporate Communications, Jason Perlow, Marketing, NBC Universal Inc., Olympic Games, Video
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond
- Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Network, Server, Akamai Technologies Inc., Content, Limelight Networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Data Centers, Networking, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn?
- Limelight Networks may have won a medal for its role behind the scenes to keep NBCOlympics.com humming, but the company is still dwarfed by its largest rival Akamai. The big question: Does Limelight have enough headroom to gain meaningful share from Akamai? Jason Perlow detailed how content...
- Tags: Patent, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks, Jason, Company, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Next Question: A Whole Lot of Traffic Shaping Going On, With Olympics Video?
- The sky didn’t fall this week, with NBC’s delivery of live events from 25 sports at www.nbcolympics.com. But now, Brick Eksten, the chief executive of Digital Rapids, is wondering: Has there been a whole lot of traffic shaping going on, to make sure the streams appear on computer and...
- Tags: Traffic, Video, Stream, Internet, Corporate Communications, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTube
- So, NBC is "only" delivering 3.4 million or so streams of Olympic video from its Web site. That still beats YouTube's traffic, according to our source in the cloud. Since the Olympics began on Friday, 386 videos have appeared on YouTube's 10 channels of Beijing2008 coverage picking...
- Tags: Corporate Communications, Marketing, NBC Universal Inc., Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Video, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Did the DVR and HD impact NBCOlympics.com traffic numbers?
- Did the DVR and HD impact NBCOlympics.com traffic numbers?Always proofread your article......before submitting. :)"While I wouldn't consider HD penetration to be at majority levels yet, enough households have do them..."You neglected to mention another possibility.Why bother to watch when you already know who's won?The biggest factor is... imo that NBC...
- Tags: DVR, interest story, digital video recorder, Olympic Games, Olympic
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- News to know: Cyber attacks; Google; Windows security; Gmail outage
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught Dancho Danchev: Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress ZDNet UK: Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack Video: Defcon: Where feds and hackers rub elbows News.com: Defcon ends...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Russia, Windows Security, Cyberattack, Outage, Georgia, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Numbers on the NBC's Silverlight Olympic Coverage
- Numbers on the NBC's Silverlight Olympic CoverageWould have loved to watchbut the GARBAGE known as Silverlight won't run on my PowerPC Mac the last PPC Powerbook.I sent them an e-mail about this and that they should have picked Flash or generic MPRG4 for the transport so ALL could see the...
- Tags: Live 8, Microsoft Silverlight, NBC Universal Inc., Silverlight Olympic, Silverlight Olympic Coverage
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Numbers on the NBC's Silverlight Olympic Coverage
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld has a great rundown of the numbers behind this weekend's Olympic coverage. The highest day of coverage was on August 10th and it saw about 3.42 million video streams with 66.7 million page views and an average time spent on the site of 15 minutes. Pretty good numbers...
- Tags: Coverage, Home Entertainment, Microsoft Silverlight, NBC Universal Inc., Personal Technology, Ryan Stewart, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Tv & Home Theater, TVs
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!
- Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!RE: Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux![url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/08/nbcolympicscom-linux-users-sol.html]Hate it.[/url]Sticks in the kraw of Open Source folksas they can't stand working with anything MS related.What OS were you using?I was watching...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Web browsers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NBCOlympics.com, Linux!, video, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Watch the Olympics! Right after this series of hurdles
- Watch the Olympics! Right after this series of hurdlesWhy didn't they just use flash?It seems everytime I read a article about some service which was made in silverlight I have to go through the whole installation procedure as if I never had it installed. With the flash plugin you are...
- Tags: NBC Universal Inc., Olympic Games, Olympics! Right, plug-in
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- EIC podcast: Olympics IT; LinuxWorld; Google
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about the Olympic-sized IT effort behind NBC and Microsoft's web site. We also talk about LinuxWorld and Google's opt-out moves this week. On the Olympics, it's showtime for Microsoft's Silverlight and the IT effort behind NBCOlympics.com. Will...
- Tags: google inc., linuxworld, microsoft silverlight, podcasts, web site development, data centers, linux, web technology, internet, storage, hardware, data management, operating systems, software, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Watch the Olympics! Right after this series of hurdles
- The opening Olympic ceremony in Beijing is underway just don't expect to watch them live. That'll happen later on Friday so the Web doesn't cannibalize TV for NBC. It's one of many hurdles you must clear to watch a little Olympic video. But I can live with...
- Tags: corporate communications, home entertainment, larry dignan, marketing, NBC Universal Inc., olympic games, personal technology, tv, tv & home theater, tvs
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
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