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Akamai Technologies is extending its content delivery network to the Apple iPhone as it introduces the Akamai HD Network, a system for streaming high-definition live and on-demand video to a variety of devices.

The HD Network will let content and service providers offer online video that matches the traditional TV and DVR (digital video recorder) experience through buffering, adapting to network and processing speeds and features for navigating the content, Akamai said on a video announcement on Tuesday. The company is pitching the technology, an upgrade to its existing network, to streaming video providers now.

Consumers will be able to watch HD Network content on PCs in the Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight formats, but also on the iPhone, said Akamai President and CEO Paul Sagan. He gave few details about the iPhone offering, including which mobile operators or third-party content providers might use it. But if Akamai’s infrastructure can deliver high-quality live video to the popular handsets and AT&T’s 3G network can handle the strain, it could be a boon to iPhone users.

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It Looks like Kyte has added HD Livie Streming. Allowing high definition, professional-grade live streaming. It uses Adobe’s FLash Media Live Encoder and is an add-on component to Kyte’s publishing platform. pecial events such as live concerts, press conferences, sporting event and more are perfect for this professional broadcast solution.

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Thanks to a partnership with streaming video firm Livestream, customers using Brightcove Inc. ’s online video platform will now be able to easily record and publish their live videos.

Using newly released Livestream APIs, the companies have developed a way for customers to feed their pre-recorded live video streams into the Brightcove video management system. Customers can also use any custom video players or templates that have been built through Brightcove for new live streams, ensuring the same user experience, whether a stream is live or on-demand.

Not only will customers be able to manage videos from Livestream like any other video asset, but the relationship will also allow them to use the same reporting, analytics, and monetization tools for those videos as for those that are directly uploaded into the Brightcove platform.

While most customers use Brightcove’s platform to manage and distribute on-demand video content, the partnership gives the company an easy way to attack the live video market. Previously any customers that wanted to feed live video into the Brightcove system needed to bring their own live encoding system to do so. Now they can simply feed into Livestream’s live video platform.

“Many of our customers are becoming more and more intrigued by the possibility of doing live streaming,” says Chris Johnston, Brightcove’s director of technology partnerships.

While the companies worked together on technical integration through Livestream’s APIs, there is not a sales or marketing aspect to this partnership — so customers that want to feed live channels into their Brightcove libraries will need to sign up for accounts with both companies.

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The increasingly competitive browser market has at last created an environment in which emerging Web standards can flourish. One of the harbingers of the open Web renaissance is HTML 5, the next major version of the W3C’s ubiquitous HTML standard. Although HTML 5 is still in the draft stage, several of its features have already been widely adopted by browsers like Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. Among the most compelling is the “video” element, which has the potential to free Web video from its plugin prison and make video content a native first-class citizen on the Web—if codec disagreements don’t stand in the way.

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Today is the official kick-off for the content partnership between Hulu and Disney, with “Grey’s Anatomy” coming to the online streaming site. But before you get your hopes up, Hulu will not be a repository of past episodes letting you catch up on earlier “Grey’s” seasons. Instead, Hulu will only carry the five most recently aired episodes of the popular primetime drama from Disney-owned ABC. Although some may find this disappointing, limited arrangements are not uncommon on Hulu, and the site carries only limited amounts of many popular shows.

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