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The online data traffic numbers are beginning to, ahem, stream in for non-TV viewers of the World Cup tournament, live from Brazil, and, with the tournament only half finished, they are already impressive.
In the battle for video codec supremacy between H-265 and VP9, the winner will be determined in the next few years by either market dominance/acceptance due to marketing resources and/or the challenge of replacing legacy technology across an entire ecosystem.
Taking aim at Roku, Amazon, Apple and others that have developed software and apps platforms for the big screen, Google on Wednesday introduced Android TV, a version of its operating system that's optimized for a variety of third-party connected TVs and set-tops.
No corner of the media business is safe from the current wave wave of "creative destruction." Every medium has been disrupted in some way, and some (the music industry) have been blown to smithereens.
Audio/video streaming is the heart and soul of the media facility--think SDI (Serial Digital Interface), AES3 (audio), HDMI and other transports that move AV from point to point in a timed, continuous fashion.