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LAS VEGAS – Elemental Technologies, the Portland, Oregon-based video encoding software company is powering the “the BBC iPlayer infrastructure,” says CEO Sam Blackman, in this interview with Beet.TV at the NAB Show. For the BBC and other customers, the video encoding happens increasingly in the Amazon “cloud,” he explains.  While hardware solutions had been the […]

LONDON — The BBC’s proposal to close its linear youth TV channel BBC Three in the UK but to go on publishing its shows online under the same brand will have little impact for a service already heavily consumed online, says the corporation’s future media director. “The BBC is the first broadcaster to go online-only […]