In this video, Signiant’s CTO, Ian Hamilton walks you through Signiant’s latest version of its Content Distribution Management software. Ian demonstrates the new functionality of the software including enhancements to the workflow modeling engine, enhanced media integrations and agent load balancing in Media Exchange. The video is less than 15 minutes but is packed with [...]
Watch this narrated presentation of Signiant to learn about the company and its software. The video provides a brief overview of the company, a clip of customer testimonials, as well as a technical overview of Signiant’s Content Distribution Management software and Media Exchange with a real world customer example. It’s only 11 minutes long.
Here you’ll find a captioned video of Signiant’s workflow canvas that allows you to easily build custom workflows.
At the start, the workflow builder simply chooses the appropriate “Start” component and places it on the canvas. In this case, a workflow is starting with a Media Exchange upload….to learn more, have a walk-through this three-minute tutorial.
“‘30 Rock is available to be viewed on NBC.com, Hulu.com, iTunes, Verizon phones, United Airlines and occasionally on actual television.”
During her acceptance speech at the 2008 Emmy’s Tina Fey made what was essentially an appeal for more viewers for her critically acclaimed but ratings poor show. This statement represents something more … this is [...]
Have a look at this testimonial video and learn why Signiant’s customers and partners selected its digital distribution software to solve their digital delivery challenges. The video includes clips from BT, NBC and Current TV.
I was tempted to name this post…“How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Digital Media Distribution” in tribute to Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. However in that movie, technology has a negative connotation as it applies to quality of life – definitely not the case of Digital Media Distribution.
As I travel, evangelizing Digital Media [...]
It’s been almost four months since my Patriots went down in Arizona and the scars have finally healed a bit. Tonight, I am downloading from iTunes – Super Bowl XLII. While the 778MB file is downloading in the comfort of my home … I run across this headline: Blockbuster to Test In-Store Movie Download Kiosks. [...]
It’s been 19 years since the last Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and this year’s NAB was the 19th straight for me. In 1989, I vividly remember being sequestered in a hotel room (sounds intriguing, doesn’t it?) doing non-stop hour after hour demos of the Avid/1 Media Composer with 250:1 compressed [...]
This year’s NAB show was the 19th in a row for me. Over the last few years, it’s been quite a lackluster show: more of the same with little innovation and little in the way of addressing the multitude of developments occurring in the media and entertainment industry. And by that I mean that there’s [...]
I sit outside, it’s 65 degrees in sunny silicon valley – a brief reprieve from the New England weather. I have 30 minutes to kill before my next meeting. I am at a Starbucks, drinking some iced drink that is too expensive and I can’t even remember its name. Something about sitting [...]
Earlier this week, The NY Times published an article about the head of the Federal Communications Commission and other senior officials considering taking steps to discourage cable and telephone companies from delaying the downloads and uploads of heavy Internet users.
Here are my thoughts on the subject…
The practice of limiting bandwidth utilization on a sustained bandwidth [...]
Great news this week for college sports fans via the joint announcement from CSTV and USATODAY. Let’s face it, there is a huge demand for college sports information and there are only so many minutes (uh… well, heavy sigh—unfortunately, mostly seconds…) devoted to college sports on network television broadcasts. The expansion of outlets for content [...]
Tom Ohanian recently had an article published in MediaPost’s Online Video Insider entitled: Piracy and Securing the Digital Media Supply Chain. It’s an interesting read. There’s an excerpt below and you can find the full article on MediaPost’s site.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) estimates that U.S. studios lose more than $3 billion annual [...]
Hmmmmm … writers strike? Lack of good programming? History in the making? This ranks up there with the Kennedy assassination, lunar landing, presidential elections and 911 in terms of ubiquitous coverage. Presidential State of the Union addresses do not get this type of programming.
In New England on Saturday night… the Patriots game will be on [...]
This week Google’s YouTube announced that they would begin sharing ad revenue with their partners – popular content providers. This news was buried in among all my daily media and entertainment nuggets like “Vivid Sues PornTube”, “Cisco Launches Entertainment OS” and “Mobile Game to Reach $6B by 2011”. While all Google news is News, this [...]
Listen in as Inside Digital Media ’s Phil Leigh interviews Tom Ohanian. Tom discusses how Signiant makes media move throughout the digital media supply chain.
Inside Digital Media is a place where you can see and hear interviews with thought leaders in the Digital Media industries.
Well, how amazing is that? Beowulf comes out and does $28.1M on its opening weekend. What’s even more impressive is that the Imax® 3D version contributed $3.6M of that, or 13%, this according to the usual entities that track these figures (the Wall Street Journal reported). Regardless of where you sit on the “Is 3D [...]
I found out the latest news on the writers’ strike as I was multitasking – scanning the news, reading email and watching an episode of Friday Night Lights on hulu. While doing this – my eyeballs were awash in impressions and somewhere in some deep dark datacenter the ad-o-meter was spinning – I was [...]
… Tools & Technologies to Liberate the Imagination
Tom Ohanian joined this panel discussion at Digital Hollywood this week and was joined by several industry experts including:
Stephen Jacobs, Vice President, Sony Corporation of America
Kenneth Yas, Market Development Manager, Cameras, NA, Grass Valley
Thomas A. Ohanian, Chief Strategy Officer, Signiant
Bernie Laramie, CEO, MOS Sync, Inc.
John Dietsch, CEO and [...]
Last Thursday evening, the folks at Creative Planet’s Digital Production Buzz interviewed William Henshall (a photographer/videography) and Signiant’s Tom Ohanian.
Each week Creative Planet’s Digital Production BuZZ keeps listeners in touch with trends and technologies, people and practices in order to keep their audeince up to date with digital production, postproduction and evolving distribution opportunities.
You can [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting at the Boston Avid Users Group, held at National Video Boston. It was great to see many of the colleagues that I worked with at Avid and also to meet new members. The topic of discussion was “Accelerating Avid-to-Avid Transfers” which showcased the Signiant-enabled [...]
Interesting question but isn’t the question much bigger than this little skirmish in the Digital Media Revolution and isn’t the cable operator that doesn’t respond in a timely manner just helping the media companies regain turf?
How people consume content is changing …
Just last Sunday morning, I sat on the couch with my two kids with [...]
BusinessWeek’s Olga Kharif wrote a story today about retailers being fined for failing to post special labels on their analog-only TVs to notify consumers that, come next year, their TVs will stop working.
As far as I’m concerned, this is a non-event! People’s appetite for larger and cooler flat panels will continue as prices continue to [...]
Customers and prospects keep asking the question…Does Digital Media Distribution helps the Media and Entertainment industry go green? You’re damn right it does. Tapes, dubbing, electricity, couriers (unless they’re on bicycles), traffic, exhaust, more tapes, DVDs, you know stuff that winds up in landfills….packages, bubble wrap, those disgusting packing peanuts that wind up everywhere…
Put a [...]
Paul Kedrosky has a post on the Fox Business/CNBC showdown (or as he calls it “smackdown”) that sets the stage nicely for what should be an interesting storyline heading into 2008 as major networks figure out how to capitalize on their digital media assets.
Whether or not Fox or CNBC becomes the first to put live, [...]
Ahh… the good old days when we all understood it. What it was, what it did, and what it offered. And today? When asked to define “television” do most of us even know where to start? Are we watching? Who’s watching? Which version of the show did YOU watch last night? Did you watch on [...]
In this video clip, Signiant’s VP of Marketing, Tony Lapolito, talks about the excitement of IBC 2007. Signiant was the platinum sponsor of the IPTV Zone and demonstrated the latest version of its Digital Media Distribution Management Suite.
Signiant also made announcements regarding the company’s recently formed relationships with BT, Marquis and IBM.
Click (or hover the mouse) here to listen to an interview with Dave Lemont of Signiant from the floor of NAB 2007. Dave was interviewed by the Digital Production BuZZ podcast and his segment begins about48 minutes into the podcast.
What would happen if you awoke one morning and went to work only to be told that there would no longer be any parcel pickups? No more FedEx, no DHL, no U.S. Postal Service? No more bicycle couriers hurtling in and out of traffic with your precious content on 300 GB firewire drives strapped to [...]
Click here to read Signiant’s announcement of a major new category of software for the media & entertainment industry: digital media distribution management.
