in the last 60 days:

- The CEO resigned and waited five days to notify shareholders,
- Four board members have stepped down,
- The company’s financials are under scrutiny,
- There’s an SEC investigation
- They just acquired its 15th company.

Burdened with $20.8 million in debt and has less than $47.8 million cash in the bank – just what is going on at KIT Digital?

An interesting technical paper that discusses the performance problems: player instability, unfairness between players, and bandwidth underutilization when 2 x players try to consume the same bandwidth.

UK Broadcast services provider Red Bee Media has launched a new online video player that can deliver content to connected devices including computers, smartphones, tablets and connected TVs.

Red Bee’s RedPlayer will target broadcasters, studios and brand owners, offering distribution and managed services, including encoding, transcoding and content protection. The company said it had developed the platform in response to a growing demand for monetisable “broadcast quality” online services.

BBC director-general Mark Thompson announced on Friday his intention to launch an international commercial version of the iPlayer within a year.

In his MacTaggart Lecture to the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Thompson said people like servicemen should be able “to use a UK version of the iPlayer wherever they are in the world”.

But licencing restrictions and technical issues may prove problematic.

In a move which could be seen by some as the diversification their platform offering, and to others, a possible slap in the face for Flash. Cambridge, Mass.-based online video platform Brightcove announced on Monday their new Brightcove Experience for HTML5.

The new platform provides support for intelligent device detection, playlist rendering, and playback of H.264 encoded video content. a framework for publishing and delivering interactive and advertising-supported Web video.