Brandon Costa reports that through the use of Elemental Live for real-time video encoding, Stanford University delivers fans attending athletic events on campus the unique ability to access instant replays on mobile devices via Wi-Fi.
Andy Plesser of Beet.TV caught up with Elemental VP Marketing Keith Wymbs at CES 2012 to discuss Elemental's growing customer base, including Comcast, HBO and ESPN, and using graphics processors to perform video processing for multiscreen content delivery.
Mobile Sports Report notes that Stanford is Elemental Live for its Wi-Fi Instant Replay system. The system enables fans at sporting events to view an instant replay immediately after the play occurs.
Campus Technology reports that Stanford Cardinal fans just got a new reason to cheer: they can now stream instant replay clips to their mobile devices during live, on-campus sporting events powered by technology from Elemental.
Curt Woodward reports that our long national nightmare of TV commercials that are too loud is finally nearing its end. Elemental Technologies is angling to help its network customers keep their audio programming nice and steady.
Brian Santo reports that Elemental Technologies, with partner SRS Labs, is introducing audio management technology to help its customers comply with the CALM Act. The legislation requires broadcasters to deliver TV commercials with audio no louder than the accompanying program.
Philip Michaels, editor of Macworld, reports that Elemental is helping Stanford University deliver instant replays to fans in-stadium on game day. Stanford's wi-fi instant replay system lets fan attending games on campus access instant replay and highlight clips on mobile phones and other connected devices.
Jim O'Neill of Fierce Online Video reports that Elemental has seen remarkable growth, including revenue that tripled from 2010 to 2011, a doubling of its staff and, with the opening of an office in the United Kingdom, a push into the international market as well.
Eric Siemers of the Portland Business Journal reports that Urban Airship, Elemental Technologies and Puppet Labs represent the graduating class of Portland’s next wave of emerging startups.
Mike Rogoway of The Oregonian reports on the state of tech business in the region in his year end, year ahead wrap-up. Oregon technology spent 2011 on an upswing and the state's entrepreneurs attracted more investment than in any year since the dot-com era.
Todd Spangler of Multichannel News reports that Elemental Technologies, a provider of encoding solutions for multiscreen content, announced it has won more than 100 customers -- including Comcast, ESPN, HBO and Avail-TVN -- since launching its professional product line in 2010.
At the annual meeting of the Governor’s Office of Film and Television, Governor John Kitzhaber presented Elemental Technologies’ CEO Sam Blackman with this year’s award for Innovation in Media Arts.
Access video of the panel session held at the 2011 Media Innovations Summit that examined multiscreen services and management. Panel participants include Sam Blackman, CEO, Elemental Technologies, as well as representatives from Envivio, Harmonic and SyncTV.
"When it comes to streaming, the Elemental is pretty amazing!" Leo Laporte and Alex Lindsay give a shout out to Elemental as they wind up the weekly broadcast discussing all things Apple. You can find their discussion about Elemental solutions at the 1:40 mark (that's one hour and forty minutes).
Mike Rogoway of the Oregonian reports that Oregon's technology community is taking an active role in the race for Portland's next mayor. Elemental has hosted lunchtime forums for its employees with all three mayoral candidates.
To address an insatiable fan base demanding up-to-the-minute sports content, ESPN has partnered with Elemental Technologies to create on-demand video for the network’s websites and mobile applications.
Portland's Jama Software and Elemental Technologies are among America's top 100 "most promising companies" featured in the latest issue of Forbes Magazine. Jama ranks at number 52 and Elemental ranks at number 54 in the class of 2011.
Elemental is working with ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports programming, to create the on-demand video offered on the ESPN family of websites and ESPN iPhone, iPad, and Android applications.
Adrian Pennington reports that TF1 Group in France is using Elemental Live for video processing to help deliver live and catch-up content for its multi-platform MyTF1 service. Recently, TF1 used Elemental Live for live capture and delivery of Rugby World Cup matches to its online audience in France.
Cable operators and technology vendors have come a long way in the last five years. The industry will trumpet advances in set-tops and multiplatform video delivery at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, November 15-17, in Atlanta, where SCTE has built an exhibit on Next Generation Video Architecture at the Expo that will feature products from more than a dozen vendors including Elemental.
