CES 2014 : Junction TV and Deluxe demonstrate TV-Everywhere platform

January 11, 2014

The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2014, held at Las Vegas, NV, was the site of first joint demonstration of end-to-end DRM-capable video solution by Junction TV and Deluxe. Junction TV and Deluxe Entertainment demonstrated content being hosted by Deluxe and being delivered to multiple platforms using the Junction TV Cloud – based platform. The demonstration got much attention evinced by the steady stream of visitors wanting to view the demo. Deluxe Entertainment is a leader in Production, Post-Production, Distribution and Asset Management with a long history in this space. With its strong infrastructure to encrypt, manage and deliver DRM content, […]

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Junction TV signs deal with 8MNetworks to launch the first Netflix type VoD service in India

November 19, 2013

In its introductory venture into the Indian market, Junction TV has signed an agreement with 8MNetworks to launch the first Netflix-style Video-on-Demand service in India. 8MNetworks has acquired rights to an impressive array of Indian movie and television content and Junction TV is using its cloud-based platform to create a comprehensive SVoD and TVoD service for content delivery to multiple screens. Junction TV and 8MNetworks plan to evolve this service into the leading VoD service in India providing access to the largest library of global content. About Junction TV The MediaFabric (MF) Platform from Junction TV offers a comprehensive set […]

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Playing DRM-protected video on Samsung SmartTV Platform

November 9, 2013

Samsung platform supports both PlayReady and Widevine DRMs. So when it came to enabling DRM on the platform, we had to decide to choose one. PlayReady isn’t supported on 2010 devices – so the decision became simpler. We decided to use Widevine with a goal to reach the maximum number of devices. The first hurdle in this integration came from limited documentation on Widevine integration on Samsung. Some research indicated that it is not a mere parameter change like Samsung has for some popular formats. For example, adding “|COMPONENT=HLS” to the end of a playback URL automatically tunes the Samsung […]

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Ensuring High Availability in our OTT Video Platform

September 14, 2013

Web service failure is an unavoidable part of the Internet world. Any Internet-based platform which is not designed to withstand failures will eventually fail. As an OTT-Platform provider, this applies to us well. So when it came to design our platform, the architects included availability as a key design goal. While building robust services with proper development practices and adding service redundancy for each service was a clear engineering directive, feedback on service availability and performance was deemed equally important. We had a choice of going with existing third-party service monitoring framework or build our own. A quick analysis clearly […]

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Salem Web Network selects Junction TV to expand across Connected TV devices

August 5, 2013

Salem Web Network (SWN) is one of the leading brands consisting of 12 national sites, including the most well-known brands in the faith marketplace, such as Crosswalk.com and Christianity.com. Additionally, more than 50 radio station websites are part of SWN’s platform, which now reaches more than 7 million users every month with more than 59 million site visits every month and 31 million Facebook fans. SWN has selected Junction TV to expand their current web/mobile content offering to OTT. As a part of this project, Junction TV will design and develop a subscription-based product for connected TV devices such as […]

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Launching the first 3D Video App on Panasonic

July 30, 2013

Enabling 3D playback on Panasonic devices is an entirely different challenge compared to doing so on Samsung. While Samsung had native support for such playback, getting the information about how to get it to work was tough. In contrast, with Panasonic, there was no information about whether Panasonic even offers 3D triggering capability in its API. Initially, we started working with the information that there was no way of triggering 3D mode in Panasonic TVs from the app. Under that assumption, the app was designed to ask users to manually switch to 3D mode before starting playback. What we didn’t […]

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Junction TV and YuMe partner to deliver AVoD OTT services

July 22, 2013

Leading advertisement network YuMe and Junction TV are partnering to offering integrated AVoD services over several platforms including Roku, iOS, Android and Samsung. There is a huge vacuum of ready-to-market OTT AVoD solutions for content providers. To fill this gap, Junction TV and Yume have agreed to offer a joint AVoD solution. Content owners can now use this AVoD solution for monetizing their content on multiple devices without having to go through a custom app development cycle. YuMe is a multi-screen video advertising technology company that is defining the next generation of TV brand advertising. As TV viewing audiences continue […]

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BOM TV goes Everywhere – Indian live TV channels launch TV-E solution with Junction TV

June 5, 2013

Junction TV’s cloud-based platform has announced another successful customer: BOM TV has been launched on multiple devices including Roku, Samsung, NeoTV and Customized Android-based STB. BOM TV is the leading provider of Indian Language Live channels in North America. Bom TV has been entertaining Malayalee Expatriate communities living across the world since 2007 with its exhaustive bouquet of Malayalam Regional TV Channels. Best of Malayalam TV (BomTV) is an IPTV service in Malayalam & Tamil language channels currently with 29 Malayalam channels and 6 Tamil channels delivered in high quality broadcast service. The BOM-TV apps are using the Junction TV […]

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Breaking news from NAB 2013 : Junction TV and Kaltura jointly show OTT platform

May 13, 2013

Junction TV partnered with Kaltura to demonstrate a joint solution at NAB 2013 held at Las Vegas, NV. Kaltura is a leading Video Platform provider which caters to a large number of customers who deliver video over browsers to computers. Junction TV added its expertise in multi-device application development to showcase a joint solution which uses Kaltura’s video platform at the backend and diverse device (including Roku and iPad) applications from Junction TV. With 300,000 publishers worldwide who have integrated Kaltura’s open source video platform, Kaltura is revolutionizing the industry by providing organizations flexible and future-proof video solutions to fit […]

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Supporting PlayReady video playback in Roku

April 25, 2013

We recently got a requirement from one of our studio clients – an ability to play DRM content on Roku. This entails not just selecting the appropriate DRM, but also built the complete supporting infrastructure. In context of our platform, this meant the following: 1) Selecting the appropriate DRM format 2) Ensure that only EMS-authorized users could play the content 3) Keep the License Key server and the key exchange interaction hidden from the prying eyes Since Roku does not support Widevine, PlayReady was the way to go. While testing the device capabilities, we discovered that older Roku devices (Roku-1) […]

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