Vobile has announced the release of VideoDNA Live, during the NAB tradeshow this week, which is described as an advanced video DRM solution specifically designed for live broadcast events such as the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The service offers broadcasters and rights holders real-time digital fingerprinting, fully automated identification, tracking and monetization of live media content on the Web. This service allows content owners, broadcasters and content distributors to identify and track unauthorized uploads of broadcast content within minutes of the event taking place.
“Due to the widespread increase of Internet video distribution platforms, the 2008 Beijing Olympic will be the first digital Olympic Games in history. Rights Holding Broadcasters (RHB’s) are facing new challenges to protect their investments, which require new technical solutions for effective rights management,” said a spokesperson for CCTV.com, the official Internet and mobile phone Rights Holding Broadcaster of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. “We are very pleased with the results of our pilot project completed with Vobile’s VideoDNA Live. The full-scale deployment of VideoDNA Live will help stop illegal use of our live broadcast content and protect our investment and our distribution partners’ commercial interest.”
DRM for China.. oh the irony of it all..
Vividas announced the launch of the new Fox Soccer Channel, which will offer on-demand soccer matches from England’s Barclays Premier League, as well as other international competitions to millions of viewers throughout the United States. The new service allows full-screen video and the e-commerce back end also offers consumers easy, instant access to their favorite matches. Fox Soccer Channel Broadband offers up to five soccer matches each week. Fans have the option to buy single matches, 10-match packages or season passes giving access to all available games. Prices start at $4.99 per match with a full-season package priced at $49.99.
Two World Wars and 1 World Cup.. England-England!
Mark Sullivan from PC World blogging from the NewTeeVee Live Television Reinvented event today in San Francisco, a gathering of practically everybody in the business of pushing video on the Internet.
This morning’s first session lined up some key players from Turner Broadcasting, BigFantastic, MTV, as well as YouTube crossover star Lisa Donavan (Lisa Nova) to talk about the blurring of the lines between traditional TV and Internet Video.
BigFantastic’s Douglas Cheney says his company’s breakthrough moment was when TV mega-player Michael Eisner took a meeting with them after seeing their videos online. Eisner decided to go into business with the company, and was executive producer of their second video effort, “Prom Queen.” During its 12-week run, Prom Queen got more than 15 million views and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Outstanding Broadband Drama.
Sam has 7 friends video podcast ‘coming soon’ Here
The DEMOFall 2007 conference had several interesting streaming video offerings and we’ve clipped some of the highlights from NetWorkWorld’s excellent review below. Also see the demo.com video archives Here.
MotionDSP’s FixMyMovie.com
Very cool technology that replicates the stuff you see on CSI - crime investigators taking a piece of grainy video and being able to clarify it enough to make out the license plate of the perp’s car. These guys take video shot on a cellphone and clean it up - fixing color, removing blockiness and other artifacts. Right now, it’s free to consumers to use at FixMyMovie.com. It accepts most major video formats with a cap at 20MB file size and 352×288 resolution.
DF Splash from Digital Fountain
Digital Fountain’s technology breaks up a file into various bits and somehow is able to reassemble them on the receiving end in way that helps eliminate latency issues. The company is putting the technology to use in its new DF Splash content delivery network, slated to launch in January 2008.
Search with ClipBlast
A new video search engine that’s been busy crawling the Web for video content for the past three years and is now being unleashed to the public. ClipBlast offers two means of search: Through a web site or through a desktop widget that can display video directly in the app or redirect viewers back to the content owner’s site.
