Frank Chindamo, President & Chief Creative Officer is also an instructor at USC and is teaching a Class, "Beyond YouTube; Making Mobile and Internet Movies that Sell!"

In this cutting-edge class, you'll learn the necessary skills to lead the new media revolution - from brainstorming series ideas that create interest and excitement, right through to shooting, editing and posting on the web and mobile phones. Why wait for Hollywood to green light your talent? Start shooting marketable films now.

Former students include the creators of the Streamy Award-winning web-series www.Compulsions.tv and the hit www.5secondfilms.com. Guest speakers have included top execs from Lionsgate, 60-Frames, The Streamy Awards, The Mobile Entertainment Forum, New Media agencies, advertainment experts, etc.. See http://cinema.usc.edu/programs/summer/courses.cfm?s=d&id=35

Las Vegas -- April 12, 2010 -- NAB 2010 Booth #SU7213 -- Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced the Rhozet™ Workflow System (WFS), a new task-based workflow engine for automated management of the video asset transformation process. WFS improves scalability, efficiency and reliability for media companies' most demanding transcoding needs with an open and distributed workflow. The new Rhozet WFS supports Harmonic's Rhozet Quality Control System (QCS) to incorporate file-based quality testing and automated compliance as part of the transcoding process. WFS and QCS will be showcased at Harmonic's booth #SU7213 during NAB 2010 in Las Vegas.

WFS manages large-scale networks of Carbon Coder™ transcoder nodes in a distributed "farm" configuration. The distributed nature of WFS allows for automated processing of high-volume transcoding tasks, failover support, job distribution, job prioritization, dynamic load balancing, file transfer, status monitoring, and job notification.

For even greater flexibility, WFS users can create comprehensive workflows that incorporate a variety of processing tasks and conditional behaviors tailored to meet their specific requirements. Additionally, with its extensive APIs and software developer kit (SDK), WFS can manage the complete video asset transformation process by integrating third-party applications and other Harmonic video processing solutions.

For advanced quality control capabilities, Rhozet QCS can be seamlessly added into the WFS and Carbon Coder transcoding architecture to significantly reduce the amount of manual intervention required to guarantee high quality output. Operators can use groundbreaking quality control features, configured to their specific needs, with an interactive tool for visual verification of output. The system analyzes all assets during the transcoding workflow to help identify possibly problematic files before, during and after the transcode process. QCS can be set to check a wide variety of video and audio characteristics, including black detection, silence detection, audio levels, letterboxing, blockiness, bit-rate, duration and transport stream compliance.

Harmonic offers a comprehensive and market-leading range of solutions for real-time or on-demand video ingest, transformation, distribution and delivery to any device. Harmonic's transcoding solutions facilitate the creation of multi-format video for Internet, mobile and broadcast applications and are used by leading media companies including Ascent Media Group, British Sky Broadcasting (BskyB), Lifetime Networks, MTV, NBC, YouTube and Yahoo!

The Rhozet family of products includes Carbon Coder, WFS, QCS, Carbon Server™ and the ProStream™ 5000 offline transcoder. The full range of Rhozet transcoding solutions will be on display in Harmonic's booth #SU7213 at NAB 2010, April 12-15 in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas -- April 12, 2010 -- NAB 2010 Booth #SU7213 -- Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that SKY Brasil, Brazil's largest high-definition (HD) pay-TV service provider in Latin America with approximately two million subscribers, has expanded its HDTV service based on Harmonic's market-leading Electra® 8000 multi-channel universal encoder. SKY Brasil launched its HDTV service last year using Harmonic's award-winning MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) digital video delivery solutions, including the Electra 7000 encoder, ProStream™ 1000 stream processing platform with DiviTrackIP™ statistical multiplexing, and NMX Digital Service Manager™. With the deployment of the Electra 8000 compression platform, SKY Brasil has gained additional bandwidth efficiency and expanded its HD services.

Harmonic's Electra 8000 AVC encoder supports SD and HD, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC, as well as integrated statistical multiplexing, broadcast quality up/down-conversion and other unique features such as Jünger Level Magic™ automatic audio leveling adjustment. Electra 8000's groundbreaking architecture provides SKY Brasil with a state-of-the-art, simultaneous dual-output (HD/SD) encoder in a single rack unit, which facilitates the launch of new value-added video services.

"We continue to choose Harmonic to improve and power our SKY HDTV offerings simply because the company continues to provide the highest quality, most cost-effective, and feature-rich HD video solutions in the industry," said Luis Otavio Marchezetti, Director of Engineering for SKY Brasil. "Harmonic's Electra 8000 compression platform solution offers excellent video quality and greater bandwidth efficiency for our new HD services."

"The Electra 8000 and the other award-winning Harmonic MPEG-4 encoding, stream processing and network management systems deployed by SKY Brasil provide a reliable, comprehensive solution to power SKY's growing HD service," said Richard Phelps, Vice President of Sales for the Caribbean and Latin America at Harmonic Inc.

Leveraging Harmonic's expertise and market leadership, the Electra 8000 is the most advanced and feature-rich encoding platform for cable, satellite, IPTV or broadcast applications available today. Harmonic's comprehensive range of video delivery solutions will be showcased at NAB 2010 in Las Vegas, booth #SU7213, April 12-15.

RICHARDSON, Texas - April 12, 2010 - RipCode, Inc., the leader in transactional transcoding, announced today its newest product, the TransAct Transcoder V6 can intercept Adobe Flash-based file or live video requests and convert them to a container, video codec, and audio codec accepted by Apple Inc.'s new iPad - all transparently to the end user device and without the need for any pre-transcoding or device-based client.

The iPad is poised to further accelerate and expand the mobile video device market just as the iPhone has over the last several years. However, one of its noted shortcomings has been Apple's lack of support for Flash video playback, given the dominant position of Flash in professionally generated entertainment, sports and news content. HTML5 has been purported to address this dilemma by introducing Apple device applications that are simply 'thin clients' communicating back to a web site hosting and subsequently delivering Flash files without a device-based player, but HTML5 is not yet widely adopted. RipCode's Transactional Transcoding platform enables an alternate and immediate solution to this issue, opening up video content to users without requiring the content hoster to move to HTML5 or pre-transcode entire video libraries from Flash to an iPad-accepted container format. By transcoding the content 'in the cloud', it is essentially analogous to a network-based Flash to MP4 or MPEG-TS video adaption layer.

RipCode's V6 transcoding appliance is equipped with industry-leading transcoding flexibility (file-to-file, file-to-stream, stream-to-stream, stream-to-file, and RipCode's On-Demand Transcoding), codec and container flexibility, concurrency, video processing functions, and resolutions ranging from QVGA to 1080i/p. Further, the V6 supports a rich suite of integrated video delivery options including QuickTime, MP4 Progressive Download, Apple's MPEG-TS Adaptive Progressive Download for file-based and live content, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and RTSP. It is easily integrated - as hardware or software - into any content hosting/delivery operation given its Linux/Intel processing core. Working in conjunction with RipCode's Commander and Detector, content requests from an iPad is automatically detected, which launches an intelligent content transcoding workflow that re-encodes a Flash file to one of the aforementioned iPad-accepted formats, and then delivers either via MP4 Progressive Download or Apple's MPEG-TS Adaptive Progressive Download.

RipCode will be demonstrating this capability for both live and video on demand applications at NAB 2010 this week in Las Vegas. Please access http://www.ripcode.com/nab/ to arrange an appointment to visit our suite at the Hilton, adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Sunnyvale, Calif. -- April 5, 2010 -- At NAB 2010 booth #SU7213 in Las Vegas from April 12-15, Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) will showcase its comprehensive and market-leading portfolio of solutions for broadcast and on-demand video delivery. Latest generation technologies on display will include an impressive 3D demonstration, a new control and management system for Harmonic's contribution and distribution solution, and a live ATSC Mobile DTV (ATSC M/H) broadcast service demonstration. In addition, the company will introduce the Rhozet™ Workflow System (WFS) for universal media transcoding, and feature Harmonic's MediaPrism™ solution for converged "TV Anywhere" services.

"Harmonic offers the industry's broadest set of solutions for live and on-demand video delivery to any device," said Yaniv Ben-Shushan, Product Marketing Manager at Harmonic Inc. "At NAB this year, we are showcasing advanced, industry-leading technologies including ATSC M/H transcoding for mobile broadcast services and the latest frame-compatible 3D compression solution. By further expanding our solution set for stream processing, transcoding, contribution and distribution, we are able to offer service providers unique and integrated solutions that further enhance scalability, improve performance and ease management of their video services."

The recent launch of Apple's iPad has generated a wide range of opinions and some confusion when trying to answer the question, "What is the iPad?". It has been described as an "iPod Touch on steroids" and the "ultimate electronic reader". This webinar will specifically focus on answering the question of how the iPad and tablet devices in general will impact business communications including IP video.

At the first glance, the iPad seems to come as a replacement for an old fashioned clipboard, opening up new opportunities for interactivity with its large, mobile screen. Will it become a new employee training tool, a corporate communications device or a revolutionary media consumption gadget? Is it a true 4th screen or just a version of its mobile predecessors?

Speakers:
Chris Hazelton, Research Director, Mobile & Wireless, The 451 Group
Steve Rubel, SVP, Director of Insights, Edelman Digital
Frank Weiler, Head of Business Development, Germany, KIT Digital, Inc.

Title: iPad - 4th Screen for Business?: Tablet Devices' Impact on Business Communications
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

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Steeton, UK - March 25, 2010 (NASDAQ: SATS): EchoStar Europe (www.echostar-europe.com), a leading developer of added-value, connected-device solutions to the digital television industry, announced today it has secured the highly coveted 'Best Hybrid Broadcast-IP Video Delivery Solution or Service' award at the IPTV World Series Awards (www.iptv-forum.com/awards) in London. The award recognises customer premise equipment that caters to the convergence of IP and non-IP delivered video services. The IPTV World Series elite judging panel, comprising of leading industry journalists and market analysts, selected EchoStar Europe from six other candidates.

Judging panellist and digital TV industry analyst Benjamin Schwarz of CTOi Consulting commented, "This year's competition was extremely hard fought with an unprecedented number of nominations in the hybrid award category". Schwarz continued, "It is extremely pleasing to see so many exciting and innovative product solutions being launched in the IPTV space - they clearly support operators' needs to deliver differentiated and enriched entertainment services on a multiplatform stage".

EchoStar Europe launched its latest SlingLoaded HDS-600 R platform at IBC2009, where it also won Cable and Satellite International's 'Product of the Year Award' for 'best customer premise technology' for its first SlingLoaded platform. The HDS-600 R is currently being showcased at the IPTV World Forum in London. The platform ensures that operators can deliver a compelling TV Everywhere experience, enabling them to secure multiplatform revenue streams by providing customers with greater flexibility to engage on-the-go lifestyles. Through integrated SlingLoaded, consumers can place-shift and watch TV from any location inside or outside the home and on any Sling-enabled device including mobile phones, laptops and secondary television sets.

Rick Smith, vice president of Sales and Marketing at EchoStar, commented, "We are absolutely delighted to win such a prestigious industry award". He continued, "This milestone clearly reinforces our strategy of providing added-value hybrid products that support digital television operators' needs for platforms that deliver converged services to consumers inside and outside the home".

ScanScout, the leading in-stream online video advertising company ( http://www.scanscout.com ) today announced the launch of its monthly Online Video Insights Report. The report provides a concise snapshot of online video consumption and trends by key video categories, audience segments, day parts and demographics. The Online Video Insights Report is an informational resource designed to augment the current online video data available and can be requested by emailing onlinevideoreport@scanscout.com or visiting http://scanscout.com/marketing/insights.

ScanScout's proprietary technology is what allows the company to cull the information included in the report each month. The company matches more than 500 million in-stream ad impressions per month to millions of online videos, reaching an audience of tens of millions. Each video passes through ScanScout's machine learning and semantic technology, creating layers of additional data for easy categorizing and delivery. As the online video audience consumes more content, ScanScout is able to monitor real-time trends and tendencies.

One of the key elements of the report is its customization potential. The amount of data generated allows ScanScout to tailor the report in an almost unlimited number of ways. The inaugural report, tallied from February 2010 data, provides insights on video consumption trends including:

Daily video stream volume averaging 33% higher on weekends
Biggest weekend lifts in these categories: Auto (+42%), Travel (+53%), Sports (+42%), Food & Drink (+42%), Home (+39%), Computer/Tech/Games (+38%), Entertainment/Music (+32%)
Most viewed subjects: Winter Olympics and tax-related videos

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - March 22, 2010 - Edgeware, the technology leader in distributed video delivery, today announced that COMSTAR-UTS, the leading provider of integrated telecommunication services in Russia and the CIS, has deployed Edgeware´s next-generation video delivery solution to power its Time-shift TV service in Russia.

In the first phase, COMSTAR will offer Pause Live-TV to its more than 133 000 IPTV subscribers in Moscow using the Edgeware platform distributed into multiple sites in the region.

COMSTAR, a leading supplier of integrated telecom solutions in Russia and CIS, operates an extensive multi-service network across Russia and Europe and was the first Russian operator to launch commercial IPTV services in 2005. By making use of Edgeware's distributed delivery architecture, COMSTAR is able to roll out new and attractive services such as time-shift TV while allowing for future scalability.

"By working closely with Edgeware and our integration partner, Smartlabs, it has been possible for COMSTAR to evaluate, deploy and now launch its initial service of Pause Live-TV easily and rapidly to its customer base in Moscow," said Victor Belov, director, service platforms and networks for COMSTAR. "We are now looking at how we can extend this service across our whole infrastructure."

"By deploying Edgeware's platforms and advanced technology, forward looking organizations like COMSTAR now have the opportunity to deploy a full range of highly scalable video based services across all 3 screens," said Joachim Roos, CEO of Edgeware AB. "By effectively transitioning their existing VOD based services to add timeshift and Pause Live-TV, they have set the stage for fully integrated internet TV and Video services that can scale across the whole subscriber base and deliver content to their TV, computer and mobile devices."

Rockville, MD and Palm Desert, CA -- March 22, 2010 -- Today, at the DEMO Spring 2010 event, Hillcrest Labs launched the Kylo(TM) browser -- a new Web browser for TV. Developed for the millions of households that connect their PCs or Macs to the TV, Kylo lets users visit any site on the Web with a browser that was specifically designed to be viewed from a distance in the family room, living room, or dorm room.

The Kylo browser is not meant to replace traditional browsers such as Internet Explorer(R), Safari(R), or Firefox(R) for use with standard computer display screens, but instead is for use on a television connected to a computer. Unlike other applications or Web sites, Kylo is not a "walled garden" of aggregated video content, but rather a true Web browser that lets users go where they want across the Internet.

"No matter how hard they try, no single set-top-box manufacturer, specialized TV widget developer, or content aggregator can match the volume of online viewing choices available on a computer," said Dan Simpkins, founder and CEO of Hillcrest Labs. "For this reason, many consumers are simply using their new HDTVs as an alternative display for their PCs or Macs. So, we've developed Kylo as a free and simple TV browser that enables them to visit any site on the Web, and makes the entire experience more enjoyable."

THE TREND: COMPUTERS IN THE LIVING ROOM

A variety of recent findings demonstrate the growing popularity of pairing computers with televisions. For example:

* In Forrester Research's report, "How Consumers Get Online Video to The TV," June 9, 2009, the firm estimates that nearly 9 million homes in the US watch at least some online video on a TV set in a typical month.

* In Deloitte's, "State of the Media Democracy Survey Fourth Edition," December 2009, the firm found that 65% of US Internet users would like to connect their televisions to the Internet, a figure that jumped to 74% among Millennials (ages 14-26).

* According to Pew Research's, "The Audience for Online Video- Sharing Sites Shoots Up," July 2009, 23% of those who watch online video have connected their computer to a TV (29% of males who watch online video vs. 16% of females who watch online video).

* Research conducted by One Touch Intelligence as reported in VideoNuze on November 4, 2009, states that approximately 13.4% of Netflix "Watch Instantly" usage is by people who connect their computer to the TV, versus approximately 3.6% that is done by people using a Roku set-top box.

* In December of 2009, Hillcrest Labs also conducted its own mall intercept survey of 200 consumers within the high-tech corridor of the Washington DC area, and found that 34% of consumers connect their computers to their TVs "always" or "often," while 80% were interested in surfing the Internet on TV.

THE PROBLEMS

Despite this growing trend, the first hurdle that consumers face is the physical act of connecting their computers to their TVs. For this reason, Hillcrest Labs developed a simple online guide to help people get started: www.hillcrestlabs.com/loop/connecting.php.