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Octoshape and EBU to
Peercast 2006 Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Other Topics: IPTV Content
Protection, High Definition IPTV
The European Broadcasting Union
September 6, 2006
Geneva/Copenhagen -- The fourth annual Junior Eurovision Song
Contest will be streamed live over the internet through ESC-TV,
using Octoshape's peer-to-peer technology (P2P).
The European Broadcasting Union also worked with Octoshape for a
live webstream experiment of the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in
Athens, last May. Encoding was performed by EBU Eurovision.
The 2006 Eurovision Song Contest was successfully 'peercasted'
across the internet in order to experiment with P2P technologies and
compare them with traditional technologies, such as CDN and unicast.
In spite of the fact that the online stream was not widely
publicised, almost 75,000 people from more than 130 countries
watched the show through the internet. |
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For the 2006
Eurovision Song Contest, ESC-TV was 'peercasted' in 700 kbps
quality, but 200 kbps and 450 kbps were available as well.
The 2006 edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take
place in Bucharest, Romania, on 2nd December of this year. A
completely new website will be launched on www.junioreurovision.tv
in the first week of November.
EBU
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is the largest professional
association of national broadcasters in the world. The Union has 74
active Members in 54 countries of Europe, North Africa and the
Middle East, and 44 associate Members in 25 countries further afield.
Working on behalf of its Members in the European area, the EBU
negotiates broadcasting rights for major sports events, operates the
Eurovision and Euroradio networks, organizes programme exchanges,
stimulates and coordinates co-productions, and provides a full range
of other operational, commercial, technical, legal and strategic
services. www.ebu.ch
Octoshape
Octoshape is a leading provider of high-quality grid streaming. It
offers solutions for cutting the price for live streaming in
addition to increasing the quality. www.octoshape.com |
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