One channel, every screen
Viewers tune in through apps and connected TVs more than through antennas. Adaptive streaming gives each one the best picture its connection can carry.
Adaptive streaming in short
A linear channel for internet audiences still needs a schedule, branding and continuous output, but delivery is different: it uses adaptive streaming, so each viewer receives the best quality their connection can carry, even as it changes mid-program.
Many destinations
Use one channel for your own app, a website, Roku or IPTV partners.
Quick changes
Update the schedule or branding without touching the delivery chain.
The quality ladder
Picture quality is a chain: the source, the encoding, the delivery and the viewer's screen. A weak link anywhere spoils the result, and a good master with sensible encoding does more than raising the quality at the end.
- Supply the best available master files and clean live feeds.
- Prepare several quality levels so players can adapt to the connection.
- Start with the quality that suits most of your audience, then raise the top level for content and viewers that gain from it.
- Levels
- Several per channel, agreed with you at scoping.
- Switching
- Players move between levels automatically.
- Graphics
- Added before encoding, so the stream is encoded once.
- Source quality
- The ladder can only be as good as the files and feeds you supply.
Keeping a growing line-up tidy
Each new app or partner launch takes less work when channels are named, ordered and described consistently from the start. Keep titles, artwork and guide data in one place and hand the same line-up to every destination.
Questions to settle
Yes. Our team provides the stream addresses your player needs, and we help you test playback on your target devices.
No. Many channels run well with standard high-definition sources. Higher formats help when your content is produced that way.
It can affect storage and delivery volume. We include it in the scope of your service, so you see the effect before you commit.