Last night (12 November) Stream UK allowed thousands of readers to take the opportunity to view the 3rd annual Isle of Man Newspapers’ Awards for Excellence ceremony from the comfort of their own home.
Over 5,000 viewers took advantage of the live feed direct from the Gaiety Theatre where the outstanding achievements of theIsland’s high fliers in the public, private and voluntary sectors were recognised.
Encoded and delivered in Flash across Stream UK’s content delivery network viewers from every contenient connected to the evening broadcast which included Robin Gibb collecting a lifetime of achievement award on behalf of the BeeGees and performing live.
Gary Myers, Digital Producer at Isle of Man Newspapers Limited said “I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the team at Stream UK for your professional and courteous service last night at very short notice. We’re already receiving reports of people enjoying the event from their homes.Well done, and thank you for your patience throughout.”
African Movie Channel, AMC, launched in the UK on the Homechoice platform (now Tiscali TV) in April 2006, and became the only TV channel in the world, outside Africa, dedicated to top quality African movies. Stream UK have now taken this offering online, opening up a huge new market for the channel. Developed, hosted, and streamed by Stream UK, it offers both a subscription and pay-per-view services, and exceptionally high quality viewing.
The African Movie Channel is distributed by the British digital home network Homechoice, which delivers video on-demand and digital TV to millions across London, and provides a valuable service for the under-represented African audience. Last year’s launch of the digital TV channel made it the only service of its kind outside Africa.
Content comprises of Nollywood films (from the enormously popular Nigerian film industry – behind only Hollywood and Bollywood in terms of size and popularity) and other major African motion picture houses, as well as additional programmes, documentaries and dramas. The round the clock service offers both an on-demand pay-per-view service, and a subscription service.
All content is sourced from master versions, so coupled with Stream UK’s expertise in across all formats, and streaming out across the web, the viewer can enjoy exceptional audio and visual full-screen DVD quality, as well as using the interface for normal DVD control functions (pause, rewind…).
Solely developed by Stream UK, it shows the full range of our expertise in the digital world, encompassing:
Database creation with tailored CMS to meet AMC’s needs
Design and build of the African Movie Channel website and portal (with branded embedded player) with integrated and flexible e-Commerce solution
Encrypting and encoding, of (thousands) of files including Digital Rights Management
24 hour delivery and streaming to large numbers of concurrent users
Stream ES and Visualmente, collaborated to webcast Blackberry’s Technical IT Seminar for IT Professionals held on the 30th October, 2008. However there was a twist to the event – it all took place in a virtual world!
The Blackberry Experts used Stream Connect Lite to do their audio presentation with PowerPoint synchronisation and viewers connected by navigating through the virtual city and going into virtual rooms.
This one-of-a-kind event attracted many participants with up to 300 concurrent viewers.
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Stream UK has repeated its successful entry onto the Central Office of Information (COI) Live Events Roster with acceptance on the London 2012 Olympics New Media Roster amongst a handful of other new media agencies.
From a corporate perspective, the company is very well equipped with ISO 9001 certification in ‘Digitisation, Webcasting and Associated Services’; trademark ownership of the name ‘Stream UK’; membership of the COI roster; signatureory to the Data Protection Act; full insurance for professional, employees and directors indemnity to £10,000,000 and now membership of the London Olympics New Media Roster.
We will be acheiving ISO 17799 certification by end of 2009.
We’ve done a lot of work in Wales over the years, but it has meant a lot of travelling. Now now we’ve created a joint venture to better serve the area in partnership with West Ent Productions.
The new company is based in Herefordshire and equipped with a satelitte uplink trunk so it can serve remote locations as easily as the bigger corporate venues.
Paul Elkington will head up the operation which is focussed on delivering webcasting using the Stream Connect tool.
