TVN Aids Local Sports VOD in Southeast
TVN Entertainment Corp. said it will provide video-on-demand support for Comcast Sports Southeast/Charter Sports Southeast’s 60-game college-football package this fall.
The vendor said it will supply encoding, asset management, site-specific metadata and multicast transport using its "TVNow" rapid-turnaround service.
The MSOs will carry games from the University of Alabama, University of Tennessee, University of Georgia and Auburn University.
"The TVNow rapid-turnaround service allows us to have timely showings of these college-football games via our on-demand platform, which, until recently, may not have been possible," said Mike Sheehey, vice president and general manager of Comcast Sports Southeast, in a prepared statement.
In other VOD news, MidStream Technologies Inc. said it has successfully tested an nDVR (network digital-video-recorder) solution with storage company DataDirect Networks.
Using MidStream's "MVS-2000" video server and DataDirect's fiber channel-storage controller and disk array, the companies said they could handle ingest from 75 channels totaling 35,000 hours of content.
Multichannel Newsletter
The smarter way to stay on top of the multichannel video marketplace. Sign up below.