Award-winning breakthrough content and advanced interactive networks, coupled with ultra-fast broadband, large-scale interactive media and IP video on any screen makes cable a harbinger of charge for a new era of advanced communications.
The NCTA’s annual exhibition Cable Show 2011 is the event that covers all that. The Cable Show will take place in Chicago, IL next week. This is the place to hear leading executives discuss their vision of next-generation networks and TV platforms. It is also the place to share our view of the future of personal TV and how to leverage the potential of existing home and mobile infrastructure.
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International news, background information and cultural highlights from Germany’s international broadcaster now available on any connected TV via iMediaShare.
Bianor and Deutsche Welle join forces to bring the German broadcaster’s on-demand videos to the connected TV screens around the globe. Deutsche Welle produces news, background information and cultural highlights worldwide, creating a platform for intercultural dialogue. Its on-demand video library is now part of iMediaShare’s video channel lineup – available both in English and German. Read more…
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iMediaShare adds another notch to its network-enabled devices’ integration belt – this time it is streaming to Apple TV. With the implementation of AirPlay support in iMediaShare’s iOS version, now streaming online videos to Apple TV devices is no more a barrier. It turns a brand-new perspective of Apple TV usage which is mainly adopted for movie rentals or online movie streaming from Netflix for example. Apple TV has a poor access to online video content and with iMediaShare installed on an iOS device in hand it brings videos and photos from more than 25+ content sources like YouTube, France 24, Vimeo, TED.com, NASA and others.
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Listening to the feedback and recommendations provided by iMediaShare users is crucial for us to move the application forward. One of the most desired features in iOS version was access to iPod library and streaming music to any connected entertainment devices around the house. With the latest 3.2 release of iMediaShare for iOS we enabled that capability and Music icon is now part of the content sources’ lineup. It is still in beta as there were some technical challenges which we need to overcome.
iMediaShare 3.2 also extends the playback support of camera recorded videos when streamed to network-enabled media devices. What iMediaShare brings now is a on-the-fly conversion of video files from Apple’s proprietary video format into a more widely accepted MP4 format. Thus devices like Sony PlayStation 3 can play flawlessly videos recorded with iPhone camera. Unfortunately there are still a certain devices that are not capable to recognize MP4 videos.
Finally iMediaShare has also improved application start time by optimizing long lasting local videos and photos loading operation. With this improvement now you can reach your favorite online content much faster and start playing videos from YouTube or whatever online service directly on the TV screen.
In short iMediaShare 3.2 is a big step ahead release. Probably we should version it as 4.0 but to keep it consistent with the Android 3.x release cycles we just sticked to that;-) Anyway go to iTunes App Store and get iMediaShare Free or Premium and I hope you’ll enjoy. Do not forget to let us know what do you think about that. We appreciate your feedback a lot!
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A new great content source extends iMediaShare’s channel lineup. With My Network iMediaShare 3.4 for Android enables browsing content from network attached media servers and then playing that content either on the mobile screen or routed to the connected entertainment device. Unlike other new channels popping up when app is launched, My Network is more an app embedded functionality. So far it is available for Android but its is also planned to be introduced for iOS version of the application soon.
Tapping on My Network icon an automatic scan for available media servers is started and all discovered are listed. Tapping on a selected media server gives access to all-stored videos, photos and music organized in the way they are stored on the server. The rest of the flow is just the same as within the other content channels thus the consistency in user behaviour is preserved.
My Network is another feature requested strongly by iMediaShare community. Being available now I’ll be happy to hear from you what your experience is.
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Today a new online video channel popped up on iMediaShare Channels grid . MaYoMo is a user-generated news service for mobile citizen journalism. MaYoMo.com, short for “Map Your Moments”, was officially launched in October 2009. Since its inception it also feeds community videos from the hottest points around the world in every minute. Now iMediaShare becomes a natural extension to MaYoMo hosted video content by enabling people around the globe to play those very special moments on their bigger TV screens.
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In the beginning of 2011 we announced the completely reworked version of iMediaShare for Android that has been featured by better usability of UI and playback of online content on TV screens. In those days we had just a few online channels like YouTube, Picasa, Facebook, TED (SD & HD), NASA TV and Motorz TV (SD & HD) in addition to the phone stored photos, videos and music.
Three months later if you open iMediaShare a scrollable screen with channels’ icons is loaded. Today their number is exactly 30 including those for phone-stored content. If you exclude the duplicate SD & HD versions for some of the channels the exact number of various content sources is exactly 25. While that number is not big enough it has been achieved in less than 3 months and that number is growing pretty fast. Probably you have noticed from time to time new icons appear magically on the channels’ dashboard screen. But there is not magic behind. We have designed the system to be fully configurable from our end and push new channel whenever it is ready for streaming instead of waiting for a couple of weeks when the next release cycle has ended.
While iOS version is not quite there (recently Apple approved for sale Premium Edition), it is on its way. iMediaShare Free edition has been submitted and we are waiting for Apple’s approval soon. What it means is that the exact same number of online channels will pop up on Channels screen on any iOS device. More than that Android and iOS users will be introduced with new channels whenever they become available and can enjoy one and the same content sources.
Update (04/12/11): Today Apple approved Free edition. Now it is available for download/update from iTunes AppStore
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Today iMediaShare Premium 3.1 passed the approval from Apple and it is now on iTunes AppStore. While it introduces several bugfixings it launches a bunch of new online video channels. Now you can get the latest news from France24, CBS News or Spiegel online if you prefer them in German. You can also enjoy funny videos from Funny or Die, College Humor, Break, etc. or you can extend your video search options within Dailymotion and Vimeo. All those channels we already available on the Android version of iMediaShare and now they landed on iOS devices as well.
Under review is the Free edition of iMediaShare for iOS which will bring the same set of functionality and … channels, of course. As usual the it will be Ads-supported. We are expecting to get its approval from Apple pretty soon.
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Bianor has added the first news on demand channel to its content streaming and TV playback platform iMediaShare for the US and Canada. France 24 is a 24/7 international news channel, covering international current events from a French perspective through diversity of opinions, debate & confrontation of viewpoints. The channel offers a European perspective on world events, and provides a key to understanding ever more complex events through in-depth analysis. Read more…
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