In traditional broadcast workflows, there were people who created content, and other people who put it over the airwaves. But the traditional model is crumbling. In the world of the internet, user-generated content, social media and subscription-based TV, a new content delivery platform must emerge.
Tim Dougherty, Senior Solutions Engineer of Wowza Media systems created this piece for Worship Tech Director
Have you ever been distracted by video content, in a good way?
Recently, I met a dear friend for lunch, in a popular sports-themed restaurant, where I was peculiarly impressed with the great number of LED displays and video walls showcasing some unbelievable content.
The MediaDS™ merges NewTek’s industry-leading live production technology with the gold standard of streaming software from Wowza™.
One of the conundrums with creating in-house video can be how not to take the content out-of-house to get it to your in-house audience. If your building or campus was wired for closed circuit television you have no problem. But few are, and that’s not an expense that most schools, government facilities, or corporations want to undertake.
Deliver live streaming video directly to viewers —with or without the Internet.The MediaDS is a revolutionary real-time media encoding and live streaming video delivery platform—the first integrated production system establishing a direct link between the producers who create the content and the viewers that consume it.
NewTek™ is honored to report that Installation International has announced the NewTek and Wowza™ MediaDS™ as a “Best of Show” award winner at Integrated Systems Europe 2017, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. MediaDS is the first local and global media distribution platform, the bridge between Program Out on your switcher and your audience on any device anywhere in the world.
The MediaDS™ (media distribution system) is a real-time media encoding and live streaming video delivery platform that integrates live production technology from NewTek with live streaming software and services from Wowza Media Systems™ in a rack unit. The integrated production system establishes a direct link between producers who create video content and viewers that consume it. This article describes how to use the MediaDS to deliver video from a production to viewers directly using the integrated Wowza Streaming Engine™ live streaming software (version 4.6.0) and Wowza™ Player.
Encoder offers NewTek proprietary IP inputs, world-class color correction, and an integrated Wowza Streaming Engine for live delivery.
First announced at IBC in Amsterdam last September, the NewTek/Wowza Media Systems MediaDS (Media Distribution System) is now available for immediate purchase. The MediaDS unit comes in a one rack-unit (1RU) form factor and is priced at $11,995.
By, Allen Tépper 
NewTek and Wowza Media Systems just announced the immediate availability of MediaDS, a real-time media encoding and live streaming video delivery system. MediaDS is a hardware and software solution merging NewTek’s live production technology with Wowza’s streaming software in a 1RU footprint.
Are you looking for a way to bring your live and recorded content to the popular content delivery networks, including Facebook Live, Microsoft Azure, UStream, YouTube, Wowza, and others? MediaDS™ is the first-of-its-kind one-box solution for media producers looking for a content delivery system, with easy presets for these services plus a wide selection of others. And that’s just for starters.