Video Breakthroughs

Adobe also announced a new cloud DRM service that’s designed to simplify the deployment of content protected videos across devices. Adobe Primetime DRM, the company noted, already s being used by companies including AT&T, DirectTV, Fox, Scripps Networks, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Walt Disney Pictures, Hulu, HBO Go and Comcast.

The cloud-based version will help content owners and distributors bring more premium content to more devices efficiently. Available as a hosted web service in the cloud, the DRM manager handles compliance and robustness, management and scalability, and ensures that new features can be added easily without the need to update software on an on-premises server.

At NAB, the Mobile500 Alliance, one of two competing groups of broadcasters working to make Mobile DTV a reality in the United States, brought a second-generation MDTV system to the convention that melds OTA Mobile DTV reception via an iPad dongle receiver with the social media interactivity of Twitter.

Skytide today introduced its Insight for Federated Content Delivery Networks analytics and reporting application, designed to address the unique challenges of measuring network performance across a CDN federation.

Foremost among its features and functionality to meet these challenges are Skytide Insight for Federated CDNs' ability to:

- Process the huge volumes of log file data that a CDN federation will generate — terabytes per day — and quickly transform it into finished reports.

- Provide the rich, multidimensional detail necessary to properly allocate costs and revenue, comply with SLAs, and supply the meaningful insights needed to operate an interconnected content delivery business.

- Enable service providers to supply their customers and business partners with secure portals that offer appropriate levels of data visibility at different points across the digital media supply chain.

- Accommodate rapidly evolving business models through a customizable and extensible architecture.

- Integrate with all leading CDN platforms including Cisco CDS-IS, HP SpeedVideo, Ericsson MDN, Velocix (Alcatel-Lucent), Juniper MFC, Broadpeak, and Jetstream.