{"id":18931,"date":"2010-08-26T20:52:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T01:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/main\/?p=18931"},"modified":"2010-08-26T20:52:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T01:52:55","slug":"ibc-2010-vidyocast-to-launch-under-direction-of-industry-vet-jim-obrien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/2010\/08\/26\/ibc-2010-vidyocast-to-launch-under-direction-of-industry-vet-jim-obrien\/","title":{"rendered":"IBC 2010: VidyoCast To Launch Under Direction of Industry Vet Jim O&#8217;Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vidyo has appointed Jim O\u2019Brien as General Manager of Vidyo\u2019s new VidyoCast business unit. VidyoCast, a line of products and services for broadcast transmission and contribution, offers SD\/HD video encoding and transport at one-tenth the cost of satellite. The product suite will formally be launched in September at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibc.org\/\">IBC Conference<\/a> in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVidyo is fortunate to have recruited a top industry expert with such deep domain expertise and relationships to lead our efforts in the broadcast market,\u201d says Ofer Shapiro, co-founder and CEO of Vidyo.\u00a0 \u201cAs broadcasters are under increased pressure to deliver news, sports and entertainment around the clock, they are looking for less expensive and more versatile solutions than what has been available until now. Vidyo is forging a new category of products and services that achieve a level of functionality that provide broadcasters with more flexibility and creativity with their productions. Jim O\u2019Brien\u2019s experience, knowledge and networks in broadcasting and technology will work well to position VidyoCast as a formidable new entry in this arena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jim O\u2019Brien has over 42 years of experience in the broadcast, cable, and broadband industries, with special expertise in the software control of television networks, TV production and playout automation, video servers, ad insertion, and streaming media. O\u2019Brien joins Vidyo from his position as president at Building4Media where his largest customers included CNN, CBS, The Weather Channel, NFL, Comcast, Star News, Sun TV, PCCW. Jim also served as Global Director, Streaming, Media &amp; Entertainment for Digital Island\/Cable &amp; Wireless; Global Director, Sales and Business Development for Channelmatic; Product Manager at ASC\/Leitch, work with Alamar, Utah Scientific, Time Warner and Jones Intercable-Comcast. O\u2019Brien has set up sales channels and built broadcast systems in 37 countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vidyo has developed world-class technology that\u2019s a major jump forward in serving broadcasters,\u201d says O\u2019Brien. \u201cI\u2019m honored and excited to work with this groundbreaking team and am confident we\u2019ll make a significant contribution to the TV industry around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vidyo has appointed Jim O\u2019Brien as General Manager of Vidyo\u2019s new VidyoCast business unit. VidyoCast, a line of products and services for broadcast transmission and contribution, offers SD\/HD video encoding [&hellip;]\n&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/2010\/08\/26\/ibc-2010-vidyocast-to-launch-under-direction-of-industry-vet-jim-obrien\/\" class=\"more\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2155],"tags":[2516,2943,2944,2945],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}