Showing posts with label Paul Sagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Sagan. Show all posts

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Streaming Media East: Live Broadcasts and HD Video - Can Web Video Ever Scale to TV-Sized Audiences?

In this video from Streaming Media East, Dan Rayburn moderates a panel discussion on live broadcasting in HD which as he notes has come a long way in the past 13 years when he first got into the streaming media business co-founding a live webcasting company. The panel discusses the scalability of HD content and the comparison of Internet video to broadcast TV, which is a great segue from Paul Sagan, CEO of Akamai who believes that online video is at a "tipping point" where it can finally compete with traditional broadcast TV. Is it a fair comparison? Will online video replace the broadcast TV or will they complement each other? 


Live Broadcasts and HD Video: Can Web Video Ever Scale to TV-Sized Audiences?
(B203)   1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

Last year we saw a big uptick in the number of high-profile, large-scale live events on the web. Most weren’t offered in HD, and the debate still remains whether the internet is even capable of supporting live events with the kind of traffic seen from TV broadcasts. We’ll explore this discussion from all angles—technology, infrastructure, and quality—to get a feel for what the barriers are and when we can expect to see more large-scale live events delivered in HD.

Moderator:
Dan Rayburn, Executive Vice President, StreamingMedia.com
Panel:
Mark Taylor, VP, CMG Product and Strategy, Level 3
John Edwards, CEO, Move Networks
Joe Inzerillo, SVP, MLB.com
Tony Fernandez, VP, Technology, CBSSports.com
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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Streaming Media East Keynote: Paul Sagan, Akamai, "HD Online @ the Tipping Point"

This video features Paul Sagan, President and CEO of Akamai from his keynote at Streaming Media East last month. In his presentation, HD Online @ the Tipping Point, Sagan said that after more than 10 years of the evolution of online video delivery it's finally reached a "tipping point" where it can compete directly with traditional broadcast television. He traced the milestones of online video from the 1999 Victoria Secret Fashion Show to the present with the 2009 Presidential Inauguration (10 million streams) and NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament MMOD (March on March Madness) and pointed to the growth of HD and high quality video and adaptive streaming technology as key factors in the "tipping point" that will enable Internet video to reach a TV sized audience.

"We're on the cusp of many new businesses starting up," said Sagan, "and what the early days of broadband taught us is that, once consumers have access to fast bandwidth, that level of speed becomes the standard by which they judge all future online broadband experiences. Given full-motion video, gaming, and other high-quality online entertainment experiences, consumers will push every previous entertainment tool off the table and focus on consuming broadband-delivered content." 
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