User Generated Content on TV Becomes a Reality
December 17, 2007
Oregan Networks, has today released a technology feature that makes it possible for consumers to access and control Adobe® Flash® streaming video directly on TV, thus broadening entertainment and communications options for the mass market audience of TV viewers. Oregan Media Browser now seamlessly delivers user generated content, such as YouTube and MySpace, as well as facilitating search of such media via universal and specialized search engines, including Blinkx and Google.
With its implementation, Oregan addresses the critical issues that have obstructed a larger scale uptake of Flash video on TV: video streaming latencies, and high memory and CPU power requirements. To achieve a smooth TV viewing experience during progressive streaming of Flash video content over broadband, Oregan’s media player works behind the scenes, improving the ‘Quality of Service’ by intelligently caching the stream as it arrives, thus enabling the video codecs to perform more efficiently.
Oregan’s success to date has been defined by its core offering: a slimline media streaming engine which utilizes Oregan’s advanced W3C standards-based TV browser as a user interface technology. The company’s philosophy is based on the principle that a user interface on TV is ultimately a means to locating and consuming desired audio-visual content, regardless of source. This approach has motivated the technologists at Oregan to develop an ‘intelligent’ media browser that streams and efficiently renders commercial rights-managed high-definition content and user-generated video, regardless of whether it’s part of a home video collection or is delivered in real-time from one of the social networking sites or commercial movie rental services.
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