Steaming and Digital Media gives you a concise and direct analysis to understand a scalable, profitable venture, as well as the common and hidden pitfalls to avoid in your business. By focusing on both the business implications and technical differences between online video and traditional broadcast distribution, you will learn how to gain significant time-to-market and cost-saving advantages by effectively using streaming and digital media technologies. As part of the NAB Executive Technology Briefing series, the book is geared towards the manager or executive and no technical prerequisite is required. You can quickly learn the technical speak as well as the market and business implications. New In The Book: - Consumer generated content and portals - Distribution of full-length video content - New distribution outlets for delivering content (Sling, TiVO, IPTV) - Addition of Flash streaming technology and Podcasting - Up-to-date market research and data - New industry pricing data

This book answers the question, "What is the value of using streaming and digital media for my business and what can I expect in return?" The Business of Steaming and Digital Media gives you a concise and direct analysis of how to implement a scalable, profitable venture, as well as the common and hidden pitfalls to avoid in your business. By focusing on both the business implications and technical differences between rich media and traditional broadcast distribution, you will learn how to gain significant time-to-market and cost-saving advantages by effectively using streaming and digital media technologies.

Steaming and Digital Media gives you a concise and direct analysis to understand a scalable, profitable venture, as well as the common and hidden pitfalls to avoid in your business. By focusing on both the business implications and technical differences between online video and traditional broadcast distribution, you will learn how to gain significant time-to-market and cost-saving advantages by effectively using streaming and digital media technologies. As part of the NAB Executive Technology Briefing series, the book is geared towards the manager or executive and no technical prerequisite is required. You can quickly learn the technical speak as well as the market and business implications. New In The Book: - Consumer generated content and portals - Distribution of full-length video content - New distribution outlets for delivering content (Sling, TiVO, IPTV) - Addition of Flash streaming technology and Podcasting - Up-to-date market research and data - New industry pricing data

This book answers the question, "What is the value of using streaming and digital media for my business and what can I expect in return?" The Business of Steaming and Digital Media gives you a concise and direct analysis of how to implement a scalable, profitable venture, as well as the common and hidden pitfalls to avoid in your business. By focusing on both the business implications and technical differences between rich media and traditional broadcast distribution, you will learn how to gain significant time-to-market and cost-saving advantages by effectively using streaming and digital media technologies.

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CHAPTER-1 The first chapter talks about the foundation concepts of technology, media, society and culture. It highlights the role of technology and media in society and culture and brings out the role these two play in shaping society and culture. This chapter defines the relevance of the study and elaborates the context in the proceeding chapters with examples and case studies. CHAPTER-2 This chapter talks about the artifacts of ICT and New media. It elaborates the notion of ICT and new media by talking about the various artifacts of ICT and their attributes. It further explains, how these attributes and features are useful and are making an impact on society and culture. The chapter also discusses the role of new media, its coverage, and its influence together with technology. CHAPTER-3 This is the core chapter that discusses the Impact of ICT and New Media on society and culture. This chapter has taken the real cases around the world to bring out the impact that ICT and New media have created in society and culture. This chapter has many important and vital cases like the Orange revolution of Burma or the Zhejiang University Girl and Professor debate that became viral on the internet and were able to highlight the power of ICT technologies and Knew media. This chapter also shows how and in what ways the current technologies are transforming society and culture. CHAPTER-4 This chapter illustrates ICT systems as complex systems and discusses the properties of a complex system. It further explains the complexities of a software system and the properties that make these systems so complex. This chapter also elaborates on the risks and liabilities associated with complex software systems. Some well-known cases are discussed at the end of the chapter to illustrate the impact of ICT and new media on individuals, business firms, and social structures. CHAPTER-5 The last chapter concludes the overall study and provides the readers a complete summary of the chapters in relation to the development, use and impact of ICT and New media.

The experts predict that the opening of broadband internet connections and 3G wireless capabilities will drive the adoption of streaming media to 75% of all broadcasting and e-commerce firms by the end of 2003. Author Mark Topic offers the fast, relible, and painless way to get the lowdown on the streaming of video over the internet (both wired and wireless)--he thoroughly examines the technologies, protocols, and business models on this next giant happening in the world of video and telecom. * Internet protocols for delivering streaming media * Audio and video compression schemes * Covers MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 * Discusses digital rights management * Details Metadata