Inlet’s Spinnaker and Armada Enhance Universal Sports Online Viewer Experience with Highest Quality Video and More Viewing Options

RALEIGH, NC – November 16, 2009 – Inlet Technologies, the leader in innovative solutions for digital media preparation, announced today that Universal Sports has selected its Spinnaker™ and Armada™ solutions to power UniversalSports.com’s live and on-demand coverage of world-class sports. more

Overview

Data Tech Ventures is a global leader in award-winning broadband video streaming, with a pay-per-view network and more than 100,000 video-on-demand titles. As Data Tech’s volume of content grew, and the number of formats and resolutions they needed to support expanded, the company realized that their manual, homegrown, spreadsheet-driven, encoding solution could no longer meet their needs. They set out to find a solution that could help automate that entire encoding process. more

RALEIGH, NC – NOVEMBER 05, 2009 – Inlet Technologies, a leader in live streaming and video-on-demand solutions for digital media, has been selected to provide Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Live Smooth Streaming online video for NBC Universal during the media company’s coverage of the XXI Olympic Winter Games from Vancouver, February 12-28. The announcement was made today by Perkins Miller, senior vice president, digital media, NBC Olympics; Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Platform at Microsoft Corp.; and John Bishop, senior vice president of strategy and business development, Inlet Technologies. more

Chart demonstrates Time Spent Watching
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Situation

The French Open, organized by the French Tennis Federation, is one of the premier events in the professional tennis calendar, showcasing the best tennis talent in the world playing in the world renowned Roland Garros stadium. In 2008, the Open was broadcast in 198 countries to a global audience of millions. more

Broadcasters, Entertainment Enterprises, and Sports Organizations Rely on Inlet to Power Live and On-Demand iPhone Content

RALEIGH, NC – SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 – Inlet Technologies, the leader in live streaming and video-on-demand solutions for digital media, announced today it is helping to enable HTTP adaptive streaming of content to the Apple® iPhone™ and iPod® Touch® for some of the most innovative broadcasters, entertainment and retail enterprises, and sports organizations around the globe. more

AMSTERDAM – Sept. 11, 2009 (IBC, Booth # 4.A59 and IP513) – Edgeware AB and Inlet Technologies today announced interoperability between Edgeware’s Web TV servers and Inlet’s SpinnakerTM live streaming appliance for the delivery of Microsoft® Smooth Streaming and Apple Live HTTP Streaming video over the Internet.

To compete for advertising dollars against traditional broadcast television, Web TV and video service providers need to deliver high quality, interactive viewing experiences to multiple devices – not just PCs and Macs but HD televisions, mobile phones and new Internet connected devices. Delivering these so called “360o Content Experiences” requires video encoding and delivery techniques that not only adapt to the decoding capabilities of the device but also varying levels of congestion in the network. Adaptive streaming does exactly this, dynamically adjusting the bit rate based on these parameters. Microsoft® Smooth Streaming and Apple Live HTTP Streaming are two variants that more

RALEIGH, NC – SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 – Inlet Technologies, the leader in live streaming and video-on-demand solutions for digital media, announced today it is further enhancing its entire product family, including its Spinnaker live streaming appliances, Fathom high-performance encoding platform and Armada automated workflow management system, to better meet the growing demand for iPhone streaming, adaptive bitrate streaming and other key industry innovations. Additions include integration of Segmenter software, automated VOD asset creation and support for Microsoft’s Playready DRM technology. Inlet will showcase these product enhancements at IBC 2009, in the IPTV Zone, booth IP513.

At the forefront of enabling live video to the Apple® iPhone™, Inlet augments its leadership role with a number of iPhone-centric enhancements. Integration of Segmenter software allows for iPhone-ready streams to be automatically created, eliminating the need for additional hardware or segmentation software to deliver video natively on any iPhone through more

Inlet’s Solutions Powering the Changing Face of Online Sports Programming

RALEIGH, NC – SEPTEMBER 01, 2009 – Inlet Technologies, the leader in live streaming and video-on-demand solutions for digital media, announced today it is powering the live online streaming of many of the world’s most prestigious sporting events, establishing the company as the go-to provider of encoding solutions to enable sports-related content on the web. more

Live, 24-Hour-a-Day Interactive Lifestyle Network Now Available on iPhone and iPod Touch

New App Creates e-Commerce’s First Live-Video 3-Screen Experience—TV; Web; Mobile—and Enables Users to Take HSN on the Go, with Streaming Live Video and Host of Features

ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA [August 17, 2009] – HSN (hsn.com), the leading interactive lifestyle network and retail destination, announces today the launch of a dynamic new application (“app”) for the Apple® iPhone™ and iPod® touch®. The 45 million subscribers to the devices who download the HSN Shop App now have the ability to view HSN programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, throughout the US. The launch creates the e-commerce industry’s first live-video “3-screen experience,” enabling consumers to browse and shop the network’s 35,000-plus array of products from home or on the go. more

Inlet Technologies, a leader in advanced encoding solutions for new media, announced today it has partnered with iStreamPlanet®, provider of digital media strategy, services, and software applications, to enable live streaming of major events, which have included the June 21st broadcast of CTV’s 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards (MMVAs) and NBC’s coverage of The Championships, Wimbledon. more