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In an announcement ahead of SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2022, we outlined our collaboration with CommScope to deploy AppCloud in CommScope’s innovative RDK streaming solutions from its new HomeVista™ portfolio, making it easier for operators to aggregate linear and application-based TV content into a seamless next-generation...

AppCloud, the virtualization platform for cloud-native TV apps, provides TV operators, Smart and Connected TV vendors, and content providers a simple way to bring high-performing TV apps and user experiences to market faster and cost-effectively maintain them over time.

I have worked in web development for a long time, building rich web-based applications before the term AJAX was coined! It was shortly after JavaScript became a more widely valued programming language that I started working for ActiveVideo. Building web-based HTML5 applications for TV became my bread and butter, and...

Every home has its own recipe for streaming content, with data showing that 63% of US consumers watch premium TV shows and movies in a typical week and two-thirds of families stream video weekly (1).

In the second part of their discussion in the Business of OTT series, Chris Linden and Ronald Brockmann discuss some of the technological challenges they faced when launching AppCloud, ActiveVideo’s new solution for delivering OTT content to the TV. AppCloud lives in the public cloud and delivers apps from a...

Ronald Brockmann, CTO of ActiveVideo joins Chris Linden, COO, in this edition of the Business of OTT. They discuss the challenges faced by content providers and operators delivering OTT apps to their customers, and how ActiveVideo stands out in its approach to helping overcome these challenges.

Many of the stumbling blocks faced during integration projects - in this case integrating local streaming clients onto set top boxes and digital media players - are not technology issues, but people issues. Habits, clarity, and interpretation can become enemies or friends on the journey. And once we accept this and...

The TV experience is increasingly becoming app-driven, which presents challenges for both pay TV providers and content providers alike when it comes to reaching the living room TV screen at scale. As OTT apps are now essential to the viewing experience, a key question is how best to provide apps at scale to the...

Device fragmentation refers to the wide variety of devices that are in use at any given time and occurs when some users are using devices with older versions of an operating system or chipset while others have the latest and greatest. 

2020 was a record breaking year for video on demand (VOD) services as households signed up in droves for entertainment to entertain and distract from world events. The growth last year was seen by many to be an acceleration of a trend that was already well underway, with major brands, such as Disney+ and HBOMax,...