Mention the word and you will strike fear into engineers and operations folks throughout the streaming industry. Devices tremble when they hear its name. Let's talk latency—a topic where the debate ...

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As an industry, we make a lot of justifications about why video isn't delivered in a timely manner and at uncompressed quality. Many of these are reasonable, centering on network capacity or ...

One of the early problems with live video streaming—first demonstrated at the 1997 NAB Show—was that the images hiccupped and sputtered due to constraints in bandwidth. Yet, even with those annoying ...