About Jens Loeffler

I have been writing about online video and mobile for many years now, and as part of that comes a rich pool of information – some of it remained up …
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Streaming technologies tend to differ in formats, but also within a format have variations with different characteristics. Security with HLS is one of those cases – the default model is fairly public and standardized, …
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Is ad blocking a great user experience improvement or a huge problem for premium content on the web? Obviously it highly depends on who you talk to, but the question should …
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As expected, the World Cup is starting to break online streaming record numbers again, with the majority of the matches happening during US business hours.

Here is some interesting data for …
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Some of you might have wondered what happened to my frequent blog posts. Rest assured, there are many in the making as we speak, with a potential new guest contributor. Meanwhile, …
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There have been recent intense discussions on net neutrality, and it is clearly a decisive moment in the evolution of the internet. But why is it so important. To understand …
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The Adobe Primetime team showed an interesting tech preview at NAB 2014, MPEG-Dash and 4k playback with Primetime Player in Flash Player.

It is part of the official Primetime 2.0 …
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World Wrestling Entertainment, founded 1952, recently unveiled the WWE Network, a streaming online subscription channel, providing an over-the-top 24/7 channel, including all WWE pay-per-view events.

In the context of most …
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The modern cable industry, at least in the US, has been forcefully moving ahead and endorsing TV Everywhere as their digital model – the ability to access online content as part of the cable subscription, migrating the high value revenue stream to the digital age. On the other end, Netflix has been trying to create more original content to move beyond the exclusivity of cable. Read More

Squiggle Racer is a down to the core racing game for mobile, developed by the Comb Over Charlie creator Charlie Schulze.

The game has been already featured on …
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