http://www.winwebhosting.com/blog Web Hosting Information Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:33:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.winwebhosting.com/blog/microsoft_silverlight/digitalsmiths-teams-with-microsoft-readies-news-and-sports-deals/ http://www.winwebhosting.com/blog/microsoft_silverlight/digitalsmiths-teams-with-microsoft-readies-news-and-sports-deals/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:36:19 +0000 James http://www.winwebhosting.com/blog/microsoft_silverlight/digitalsmiths-teams-with-microsoft-readies-news-and-sports-deals/
www.beet.tv Digital media and metadata company Digitalsmiths paired up with Microsoft to demonstrate a technology partnership between the two companies, Digitalsmiths CEO Ben Weinberger told me at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. At the show, Microsoft demonstrated how Digitalsmiths can help add more interactivity to Silverlight so viewers could click on a character, actor, or object and link back to more information on places like Bing, Weinberger said. Expect more details on the technology demonstration soon, he added. Digitalsmiths works with television and movie studios to manage the metadata and rights relating to their assets, so they can wring more revenue from their existing and library content. Customers include Warner Bros., TMZ, Paramount, and others. Weinberger also shared some details on where Digitaltsmiths is headed next — the news and sports business. Digitalsmiths will announce new deals shortly in this area, marking the first time the company will apply its tools to a live viewing environment. Now it can be applied “to things like news and sports that are more current, live, temporal than what an episodic or feature film might be. We’ve actually recently signed a deal that we’re getting ready to announce with another studio, so stay tuned,” he told Beet.TV. The company inked a deal late last year with Paramount to create a clip portal for its licensees to use when they need content from Paramount movies. Regarding content delivery, “now it’s …

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www.beet.tv Microsoft and Akamai Technologies will release a beta version of a high-definition video solution for pcs in early 2009, the companies announced today. Both companies are introducing new streaming technologies to make the new service possible. More details will be discussed later this morning when Microsoft Director of Media and Advertising Evangelism Erick Schmidt speak at the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable today (Oct 28) in New York. The program begins at 9 am EDT and ends at noon. Microsoft will adapt video quality to server connection speeds with its Internet Information Services Smooth Streaming technology, making it possible for the video to start instantly without buffering. Akamai adaptiveedge Streaming for Microsoft Silverlight, which will be available in beta to select customers in early 2009, will build upon that technology. Andy interviewed Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie about Silverlight earlier this month; I republished the video above. Here is the joint press release. –Kelsey Blodget, Associate Producer

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