During a marathon earnings call Tuesday, AT&T shed new light on its plans to spend more on content at HBO, launch new streaming services and grow revenues with ad technology.The discussion during the call focused on AT&T’s massive $85 billion Time Warner acquisition and smaller acquisition of ad tech firm AppNexus. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson talked up the opportunities around combining Time Warner’s content, AT&T’s 170 million direct-to-consumer relationships a...
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The Streaming Video Alliance on Tuesday released a new document running down various uses for forensic watermarking as a means of fighting off video piracy.The paper, "The Forensic Watermarking Implementation Considerations for Streaming Media," was put together by the Alliance's Privacy and Protection Working Group."The piracy of online video content is a significant issue for content owners and distributors. Watermarking is a useful tool to combat theft as it permits tracing...
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Netflix launched a bug bounty program today that is open to the public. Now, anyone can catch security bugs on the platform and point them out in exchange for cash rewards.Netflix says that the highest payout so far is a $15,000 reward for identifying a “critical vulnerability.” It evaluates each vulnerability found for its “impact” to judge how much the reward should be. The bounty program had been privately available to select users since September 2016....
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Netflix’s amazing success over the past decade has been so significant that many others are hoping to repeat it. Discovery Inc. CEO David Zaslav vows a new streaming outlet that brings golf content to overseas markets will become a “Netflix for golf.” 21st Century Fox recently launched a SVOD service for “superfans” of Fox News Channel called Fox Nation. Executives there don’t mind if you liken the product to a “Netflix for conservatives.”Behind th...
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It’s always a sad day when a successful Kickstarter project has to close due to a lack of continued interest. That’s what befell the Hardlight VR team back in September, with the founders issuing a statement notifying backers that the company was closing due to lack of funds. Recently the team updated their Kickstarter page to reveal that the entire Hardlight VR project would be made open source.What does that mean for customers, not a lot really, the company is still shuttered. But ...
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Comcast continues to add streaming video services to its Xfinity X1 set-top boxes: The communications giant launched three new ESPN services on eligible devices Wednesday, giving users access to live-and on-demand content not available on ESPN’s cable channels.ESPN3, ACC Network Extra and SEC Network + will carry college football, international soccer, Grand Slam tennis matches, college basketball and additional collegial athletics, among other events. Altogether, the three services will o...
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