Industry
• Can upstarts like Vice and Buzzfeed keep their cool?
• Beatles on Amazon Prime, Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play, Groove, Rhapsody, Slacker, Spotify and Tidal
• SoundCloud in licensing deal with PRS: SoundCloud (175m monthly active users) will now pay royalties to songwriters, composers and publishers; ads and subscriptions for European users in 2016
• Yahoo Screen shut down
• Netflix in 130 countries (but not China)
• Netflix launches in India, plans start at 500 rupees (about US$7.50)
• Netflix proxy detection (thanks @slac!)
• Netflix re-encoding all titles at multiple bitrates (from December)
• Al-Jazeera America to shut down after less than three years on air
• How often do people watch online videos via their smartphone?: from Google Barometer (thanks @gurupanguji!)
WebRTC, realtime, messaging
• The Rise of WebRTC Broadcast and Live Streaming
• Facebook Wants to Kill Phone Numbers Forever
• Skype to provide group chat
• Chrome 49 release notes
Plugins
• Facebook moves from Flash to HTML5 video
Codecs, containers, compression
• Video Compression: 2015 Year in Review: 4K HEVC streaming services, 4K HEVC patent issues, AOMedia, HEVC Advance revise licensing terms, Microsoft and Facebook support for VP9:
• Oculus Rift available for pre-order: $599
• Oculus Rift Inventor Predicts Virtual Reality's Future: ' If you're interested in VR, it's going to be an awesome year. But it's not going to be the year that everyone gets interested in virtual reality … .' Oculus Touch controllers coming in 2016
• The Rise of VR and 360° Video, and why Adaptive Bitrate Streaming is a perfect fit: Bitmovin player (from HTML5 Weekly)
• Can upstarts like Vice and Buzzfeed keep their cool?
• Beatles on Amazon Prime, Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play, Groove, Rhapsody, Slacker, Spotify and Tidal
• SoundCloud in licensing deal with PRS: SoundCloud (175m monthly active users) will now pay royalties to songwriters, composers and publishers; ads and subscriptions for European users in 2016
• Yahoo Screen shut down
• Netflix in 130 countries (but not China)
• Netflix launches in India, plans start at 500 rupees (about US$7.50)
• Netflix proxy detection (thanks @slac!)
• Netflix re-encoding all titles at multiple bitrates (from December)
• Al-Jazeera America to shut down after less than three years on air
• How often do people watch online videos via their smartphone?: from Google Barometer (thanks @gurupanguji!)
WebRTC, realtime, messaging
• The Rise of WebRTC Broadcast and Live Streaming
• Facebook Wants to Kill Phone Numbers Forever
• Skype to provide group chat
• Chrome 49 release notes
Plugins
• Facebook moves from Flash to HTML5 video
Codecs, containers, compression
• Video Compression: 2015 Year in Review: 4K HEVC streaming services, 4K HEVC patent issues, AOMedia, HEVC Advance revise licensing terms, Microsoft and Facebook support for VP9:
'So we can conclude that VP9 has secured a stronger position in 2015, and is likely to gain additional ground in 2016, driven mostly by the remaining HEVC royalty uncertainties, and the desire to view YouTube videos at the highest quality possible.'VR and 360°
• Oculus Rift available for pre-order: $599
• Oculus Rift Inventor Predicts Virtual Reality's Future: ' If you're interested in VR, it's going to be an awesome year. But it's not going to be the year that everyone gets interested in virtual reality … .' Oculus Touch controllers coming in 2016
• The Rise of VR and 360° Video, and why Adaptive Bitrate Streaming is a perfect fit: Bitmovin player (from HTML5 Weekly)
