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LONDON’S TRICKBOX GOES BIG FOR STREAMING
Trickbox TV, a London-based supplier of video production gear and services has acquired the live streaming arm of UK streaming and IT services company, Echo Eight. In addition to purchasing Echo Eight’s live streaming technology and contracts, Trickbox has appointed the company’s director, James O’Farrell, as Trickbox TV Head of Live Video. The deal includes multiple LiveU encoders for remote live streaming. Trickbox TV, which manages Tower Bridge TV Studios, hopes it will strengthen its live streaming capability. Trickbox’s recent live-streamed projects included an event promoting Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom , in which a Tyrannosaurus Rex was launched down The Thames on a barge.
“I’m really excited to take on this new role and to assist with the company’s continued expansion into the live-streaming market,” said O’Farrell. “Streaming live video provides a compelling, cost-eective way to reach wider online audiences.” K TRANSCODING FOR NORTHERN EUROPE
Cloudncoder, a transcoding platform from Olso-based Norigin Media, will provide the 4K cloud origin services for live and linear TV for a Scandinavian cable operator. Norigin will be rolling out the 4K service more widely available in anticipation of greater demand for 4K content. Cloudncoder oers a hosted TV platform for linear OTT services and provides support for multi-DRM, catch-up and DVR. The platform, which utilises the HEVC codec, is used by Tier 1 operators across Northern Europe including Deutsche Telekom and Scandinavian pay-tv operators. Broadcasters and operators with a 4K oering will now be able to use the Norigin platform to capture, transcode and package 4K linear feeds or live events.
SCANDI-CODE Norigin Media’s new Cloudncoder transcoding platform o ers a hosted TV platform for linear OTT services with support for catch-up, DVR and multi-DRM.
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