DEMO: BitGravity launches high-definition video streaming service
BitGravity is launching a digital video service today that allows its customers to stream high-definition videos over the Internet.
The BG Live service can stream live events in 1080p or 720p resolution (the same quality as high-end TV sets), according to the company’s announcement at DEMO 2009 today.
The Flash-based service does not require that customers download a viewing client, and Burlingame, Calif.-based BitGravity says the service is inexpensive and easy to set up. Perry Wu, chief… Continue Reading
BitGravity’s newest features adjust video quality to your connection speed
Most people are used to television, where control of a video — its image quality and other aspects — is locked.
The idea of allowing access to control video is still new. Content distributors are still grappling with how to handle it, usually through software or new video codecs (types of video data streams).
Content delivery network BitGravity has a different idea: Adding controls on the server side, where the video is streamed out to users. The… Continue Reading
DigiMeld launches Internet video streaming technology
DigiMeld has launched a new technology aimed at making high-definition videos play more smoothly over the web.
The New York-based company has also raised $2 million in a first round of funding from angel investors. The company tested its “grid streaming” technology with NASA’s TV network.
DigiMeld has already completed a series of live tests with NASA that include the simultaneous broadcast of a space shuttle launch. The company reports there was no down time and it… Continue Reading
BitGravity scores a big partnership and funding, calling an end to era of small independent CDNs
Tata Communications, a large Indian telecom carrier, has tapped Silicon Valley company BitGravity to provide content delivery network (CDN) services. Tata, of Mumbai, has also invested $11.5 million in covertible debt in the company.
BitGravity is an upstart challenging large companies like Akamai and Limelight, which deliver much of the Internet’s information. The partnership is important because Tata owns one of the world’s largest tier 1 (meaning it’s connected worldwide) networks on the planet.
BitGravity CEO Perry… Continue Reading
BitGravity pipes video through the web, raises round
BitGravity is a bit player in the world of moving video through the web. But it believes in rounding up some powerful partners.
The Burlingame, Calif.-based company is announcing today that it has raised $2.5 million from media dealmaker Allen & Co. and Blake Krikorian, cofounder and CEO of Sling Media, the maker of the popular Sling Box. (Sling Media is now owned by EchoStar.) Krikorian will join the BitGravity board.
BitGravity has created a technology that… Continue Reading
DEMO: A roundup of companies launching
There are 78 companies presenting at the DEMO conference this week. We’ll be covering some of the more notable ones in separate posts.
First, we’ve picked out 16 of them here for brief overview: Yoics, Acesis, Asankya, Atlaspost, Bitgravity, Cozimo, Healthpricer, Hubdub, Huddle, Squidcast, Standoutjobs, , Youchoose, Zodiac-interactive, Skyfire, Scenecaster and Ribbit.
YOICS, a Palo Alto, Calif., company, makes any network-connected device remotely accessible via a Web page. You can grant others access to it too. You… Continue Reading
BitGravity officially launches content delivery network
BitGravity, a Silicon Valley company boasting new technology to deliver content over the Internet, today officially debuted its much-anticipated service.
The content delivery space is heating up. Less than a month ago, Akamai, one of the best-known CDN companies, announced that it would offer high-definition video delivery over its network.
Increasingly, publishers want to serve television and other high-broadband, interactive applications over the Internet, and need help from Content Delivery Network (CDN) companies like BitGravity. High-resolution video… Continue Reading
BitGravity wants to shake up video delivery industry
Perry Wu, a former venture capitalist at Palo Alto venture firm ComVentures and Barrett Lyon, a denial of service attack specialist, have joined forces to launch another player in the content delivery network (CDN) industry.
The company, called BitGravity, is still secretive, and Wu isn’t providing any details on its technology or on number of employees, but it is self-funded, and has won several customers, he tells VentureBeat. He began work on BitGravity earlier this year…. Continue Reading