Cisco Gets ‘Any Stream to Any Screen’ with Adobe Flash
Cisco and Adobe have announced the Cisco Content Delivery System will be the first system of its type to natively support Adobe Flash streaming capabilities, in addition to traditional progressive delivery. Service providers and organizations of all types using the Cisco CDS will be able to deliver Adobe Flash Player compatible video to PCs, and TVs using Adobe Flash streaming capabilities, accelerating the Cisco CDS’ ability to deliver “any stream to any screen.” This solution will include the recently announced Adobe Flash Media Server 3 software.
The CDS implementation of Adobe Flash Media Server 3 will offer the full benefits of Adobe Flash technology including improved performance for faster user response and increased streaming protection to ensure that valuable content is better protected as it is delivered to viewers. The CDS platform provides additional benefits for the hosting and distribution of Flash Player compatible video content and services including content and service routing, dynamic hierarchical caching, load balancing, failover protection, IP multicast extensions, unified management tools, and end-to-end quality-of-service (QoS) support.
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Adobe Announces New Media Player
Adobe announced their very own Media Player at the NAB trade show. "Delivered as a lightweight download, Adobe Media Player delivers innovation for both viewers and content owners. For viewers, Adobe Media Player enables higher quality Flash format playback, the ability to download and view videos offline, ways to discoverAdobe Adds HD video to Flash 9 Player
Not to be outdone by Silverlight, Adobe has announced a beta version of its Flash player with the ability to play high-definition video. The new player adds support for H.264 - as used in the Blu-ray and HD DVD standards - plus High Efficiency AAC audio. The company's Premiere ProCisco Pays 7 Billion for Scientific-Atlanta
SAN JOSE, Calif., February 27, 2006 - Cisco Systems, Inc., today announced it has completed the acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta of Lawrenceville, Georgia. Scientific-Atlanta is a leading global provider of set-top boxes, end-to-end video distribution networks and video systems integration. This acquisition will allow Cisco to offer a world class,Linksys IP Webcam Streams Live 640×480 MPEG4
Linksys-Cisco has announced their latest Wireless-G Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Web Camera with Audio the WVC200. The Internet Camera scan stream live video and audio footage through the Internet so you can watch from anywhere since the camera contains its own IP address. The camera also has a small LCD screen thatStickam Pimps Your Site with Flash Video
One might be tempted to dismiss Stickam at first glance as just a video-enabled Myspace clone for emo teens with webcams; but looking past that you’ll find a fairly robust and platform-independent Flash-based webcam broadcast and videoconferencing app. There’s a profile page with an embedabble Flash viewer, a full screenDigital Magazines Adding Flash Video Goodies
The folks over at Texterity.com have been doing some good work migrating mainstream media publishers content into web ready e-zines. We just noticed they put together a Great Example for Sports Illustrated 2006 Swimsuit issue which includes several of their famous (and popular!) behind the scenes video clips. Tough jobFora.TV Raises $2 Million Seed Round
Fora.tv, which wants to become the C-SPAN of the Web, closed a $2 million seed round from Adobe Ventures and Will Hearst. The site has about 1,500 hours of public speeches from people like Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker and neurologist and New Yorker contributor Oliver Sacks. It gets its videosInside the Mafia with Donny Brasco
Few have dared to tell the real story…until now. With remarkable access to FBI and DEA agents and former mobsters, National Geographic Channel gets intimate detail on the cutthroat deals, gangland assassinations and secret rituals within the infamous global mob. Get Inside the Mafia with this full-screen interactive Flash feature which1videoConference: Open Source Web Conferencing
1videoConference is a free web conferencing tool in alpha stage that’s burning up the charts on Sourceforge. Site administrators can then invite users to participate in a video, voice, text chat and screen sharing web conference. The product is far from perfect today, but if these sorts of services canHulu Rolling with HD Web Video
Today marks an important milestone in Web video. Hulu, which is quickly becoming a favorite online video destination, has started to add HD videos to its site. The most recent release of Adobe Flash Player added support for streaming HD, using H.264 encoding. Hulu's HD Gallery is a little bit
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