Adopting DASH and Multi-DRM for Video Delivery

July 27, 2016

Multiscreen video is a now reality that consumers enjoy every day. While it may not be perfect, today’s online video experience usually ‘simply works,’ and it often attains a level of quality that rivals traditional TV. If we notice video quality at all, it’s more to comment about how good it is, and less to complain about errors and buffering. To get to this point, content owners, service providers, application developers and the underlying enabling technologies have all evolved together, and so far, the evolution toward anytime anywhere video on any device has been relatively smooth. But behind the scenes, it hasn’t been simple.

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