Can you please stay away from my bits
"Azure Media Services ready to send your bits to almost any device"
Can you please stay away from my bits..
Microsoft has unveiled a cloudy content distribution service that will intensify its competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Azure Media Services is billed as a “cloud platform for managing and distributing media to any screen, anywhere” and as a cloudified version of Microsoft's existing Media Platform. Users can encode …
> the new cloudy service can do just about anything required to get video into Joe and Jane Public's eyeballs, all without messy on-premises hardware or the need to adopt new tools.
What makes MS think content-providers want that?
I mean, they could just stream h264 video to all-comers, but instead they wrap it up in nasty flash obfuscated apps. In Oz, TV is all tablet-unfriendly mpeg2.
No, they want to rent you black box with some dodgy encryption and charge a premium for it as well as the content.