X marks the spot for Elemental, thePlatform and Comcast

Submitted by Whitney on July 24, 2011 - 21:51

Just how fast are Elemental solutions? They’re Xtremely fast! And today we’re pleased to let the world know that Comcast thinks so too. Comcast has tapped Elemental to create the video available to its subscribers on XfinityTV.com and to power its Xfinity TV app for Apple devices.

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The Comcast deployment, completed in conjunction with our content management partner, thePlatform, validates our vision for perfecting the media experience in a media multiplied world. Elemental customers include not only the most prestigious content programmers on the planet, but the largest service providers as well. And with Comcast, which owns an enormous number of media properties, we get both.

Why? Well, the bottom line is that Elemental has video processing solutions for adaptive bit rate streaming that scale in large deployments better than any other products on the market. When a company like Comcast needs to make the transition from the one-to-one world of the past (TVs) to the one-to-many universe of the future (every device) where total ubiquity is the bar, there is no substitute for a video processing solution that can support your business by driving more revenues and reducing overall costs. Simply put, Elemental provides high-quality, high-value content in less than 50% of the footprint and at less than 50% of the cost of our competitors.

Elemental Live is a #Winner

Submitted by Lisa on March 10, 2011 - 17:26

Streaming Media Editors' PickWhat do Elemental Live, the Apple iPad and the former star of Two and a Half Men have in common? They're all coming up big #winners this week. And we're not just saying this to our improve our SEO!

Streaming Media Magazine named Elemental Live a 2011 Editors' Pick, recognizing it as one of the year’s ten outstanding streaming video products. Streaming Media declares that these technologies represent advances that “deserve praise without reservation.” As an Editors’ Pick, Elemental Live finds itself in excellent company alongside Adobe’s Mercury Playback Engine, the iPad, the WebM codec and the HTML5 video tag. Even better, Tim Siglin of Streaming Media calls Elemental Live a standard-setter in his summary remarks about Elemental's flagship encoding solution: 

“One year after the company showed off its file-based transcoding system, Elemental Server, the company is back with its GPU-based live encoding solution named, aptly, Elemental Live. In tests done in mid- to late 2010, the Elemental Live solution was able to handle a sizable number of profiles—from IPTV to mobile to web—on a single unit so well that it sets a standard for digital signal processing and general purpose computing-based encoding systems to match.”

All the Web You Want

Submitted by Lisa on March 1, 2011 - 09:25

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Here at the CableLabs Winter Conference in Atlanta, GA, cable companies are all about bringing television content to the web. With the battle for viewer loyalty heating up, cable companies are looking for innovative solutions to bring TV programming to PC platforms, tablets and up-and-coming mobile devices. Everyone has an application for the iPad, whether it's straight-up video delivery, a program guide or an advanced remote control. Android devices are not far behind. Delivering on the promise of TV Everywhere will give cable companies a leg up in the quest for viewer retention, but at what cost?

Formatting video for multiscreen viewing radically increases the production workload – with compute-intensive video conversion presenting the primary bottleneck.  Rather than add encoding resources ad infinitum, service providers need solutions that will keep costs down and efficiency up in an overtaxed video ecosystem.

Streaming in the West

Submitted by Whitney on November 1, 2010 - 20:01

We made it! It’s great to be in sunny Los Angeles exhibiting at this year’s Streaming Media West show. Streaming Media West is the premiere venue for executives and enthusiasts in the video industry to see the latest innovations in online video technology. Streaming Media West 2010 logo

This year, you can find Elemental in booth 28 showcasing our digital media product suite. In true Media Multiplied fashion, we're putting Elemental Live and Elemental Server to work streaming video to multiple screens and mobile devices on the show floor. Our award-winning Elemental Live system is pulling double duty creating 3D streams up to 1080p for Microsoft Smooth Streaming along with adaptive 2D streams for Adobe Flash and the Apple iPad and iPod Touch.

If you are at Streaming Media West, plan to stop by and meet with one of our representatives to discuss Elemental's solutions and how they can benefit your streaming media application. We are in the exhibit hall at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza November 2-3. We hope to see you at the show!

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