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Connected TV sport app from BBC | Advanced Television - 0 views

  • seamlessly integrating linear TV with online and on-demand
  • focusing on Formula 1,
  • Euro 2012, Wimbledon and London 2012 Olympic Games
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  • BBC News and Sport apps both launch immediately on Virgin Media’s TiVo
  • t step in the BBC’s strategy to bring its content to audiences across four screens:
  • 36 million connected TVs installed in
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How to save Streaming Media - 0 views

  • saved somewhere else (who knows where? - but check the "temp" folder) or is stored in memory (RAM), and therefore no file is created and you cannot save it !!  
Alex Street

Explained: Forms Authentication in ASP.NET 2.0 - 0 views

  • Forms Authentication Control Flow Figure 1 shows the sequence of events that occur during forms authenticati
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Difference between progressive download and streaming online videos - 0 views

  • Streaming video requires access to a streaming media server.
  • When a video streams, it is being sent via UDP protocol to a player on the end users compter. The user will have the ability to fast forward or rewind the video.
  • video isn't being downloaded to the end users computer so it is less likely that the content will be stolen
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  • Most web hosting providers or Content Delivery Networks (CDN) will have streaming media servers available to use
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Google pleads for more unlicensed spectrum instead of more auctions - 0 views

  • oogle would really, really like to see the Federal Communications Commission open up a huge swath of unlicensed spectrum for mobile broadband
  • company's case for making more unlicensed spectrum available
  • Google senior policy counsel Rick Whitt o
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  • Whitt said that an all-licensed approach to spectrum wouldn't give carriers the spectrum they need to build out common infrastructure.
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Google's battle for wireless spectrum - CNET News - 0 views

  • 700MHz spectrum auction represents the last big chance that the United States has to create an opportunity for meaningful change in access to the Internet for the broadest set of people possible
Alex Street

FCC Grants Google Access To "Super Wi-Fi" Broadband Spectrum - 0 views

  • CC has given nine companies permission to manage and administrate the white space wireless spectrum
  • Companies like Google hope to turn the white space spectrum into a form of “super Wi-Fi.
  • White space spectrum has a longer wavelength, further reach and better penetration than traditional Wi-Fi signal
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  • Google, believe that it could be turned into a nationwide Wi-Fi networ
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What is Video Streaming? | LongTail Video | Home of the JW Player - 1 views

  • video delivery mechanisms
  • three widely used ways
  • Progressive Download, RTMP/RTSP Streaming, and Adaptive HTTP Streaming
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  • Progressive Download is the most widely used
  • easiest to implement
  • Progressive Download is supported by Flash, HTML5 browsers
  • bandwidth is wasted on data downloaded but not watched
  • simplicity of Progressive Download also has its downsides.
  • inability to change the quality of the video mid-stream
  • For longer videos, the downsides start to impact playback too much
  • Progressive Download works fine for short clips (a few minutes).
  • RTSP/RTMP Streaming
  • RTMP/RTSP Streaming is widely used by professional media organizations like Hulu
  • only deliver the frames of a video the user is currently watchin
  • most widely solution is used is RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol)
  • HTML5 does not include a dedicated streaming protocol, nor does the iPad/iPhone
  • RTMP streaming can change video quality mid-stream
  • allows for optimal playback quality in the fullscreen and WiFi/3G scenarios
  • if the connection speed drops below the minimum bandwidth needed for the video, playback will be continuously interrupted.
  • has specific server and protocol requirements, which makes it less accessible and adds significant complexity and cost
  • Adaptive HTTP Streaming is a fairly new streaming format
  • Adaptive HTTP Streaming works by storing your videos on the server in small fragment
  • daptive HTTP Streaming leverages standard webservers, it is supported by webhosters and CDNs alike.
  • none of the Adaptive HTTP Streaming implementations work with regular MP4 files.
  • Adaptive HTTP Streaming will likely become the single video streaming method over time
  • live streaming is not possible,
  • o data is downloaded in advance and data a user has seen is immediately discarded.
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