Xstream, provider of OTT and TV Everywhere services as well as the video management platform, Xstream MediaMaker, and Deluxe OnDemand, a provider of video workflow and content-supply solutions, are teaming up to offer clients a powerful solution to create a compelling and personalized OTT service to their viewers, on all devices, anytime and anywhere.
The Xstream MediaMaker and Deluxe OnDemand joint solution spans the OTT ecosystem, from pre-ingest to play-out. The combined solution features best-in-breed internet TV software and personalized, interactive consumer applications with an extensive catalog of pre-encoded and pre-packaged video content of new releases, blockbuster titles, popular television series, favorite classics and more, available for streaming or download. By removing the complexity of the OTT supply chain, operators can now launch scalable and personalized multiscreen services quickly, at a lower cost, and with complete control.
“Together with Xstream, we’re providing operators and our worldwide customer base with an end-to-end service-based approach to enable them to get their OTT services to market faster with an extensive catalog of titles ready for multiscreen distribution,” said David Cornella, sr. VP of business development at Deluxe OnDemand. “The Xstream platform offers the level of flexibility and capabilities essential to bringing a turnkey solution to market.”
“When launching an OTT service, content operations can often become a problem area resulting in increased costs, quality issues and time delays. By teaming up with leaders like Deluxe, we’re able to offer operators an innovative end-to-end OTT solution to meet the growing demands for quality content on all devices, anytime,” said Simon Hoegsbro, CEO at Xstream.
The Deluxe OnDemand product suite includes a multiscreen ready, studio-quality video catalog that easily integrates into the existing supply chain to simplify the delivery of next generation video content delivery.
The solution will be integrated to Xstream’s video management system, Xstream MediaMaker where it will be integrated with the build-in module, MediaMaker Loading Dock. This module is a cutting-edge content supply chain management tool designed to solve many complex challenges, including; continuously varying distributor requirements, supporting large amounts of content and fragmented supply chain vendor deliveries, ensuring quality of assets (video and metadata), bridging the gap between legacy STB/IPTV and OTT / TVE, and screening and rating of assets for parental control. As a result, costs and resources spent to ingest and manage assets are reduced.
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More