The Internet has increased the number of options to deliver and consume digital media content for both rights holders and consumers. No matter who you are, we are in an era when more and more content is converted into, or stored in digital format.
Human attention has become an increasingly scarce and valuable resource for it has being bombarded relentlessly with all of this new media content and messaging. For media and entertainment companies, the leading edge of success over the next years will be effectiveness in gaining and retaining attention.
Today consumers have increased flexibility in selecting a variety of content portals, a multitude of devices, and numerous payment options from pay-per-view to subscriptions. Monetizing content is directly associated with your company’s ability to draw and retain user attention. The same applies to informing, training or interacting within public institutions and private enterprises.
IBM’s researchers call this phenomenon the “Attention Loop”, and LabOne’s Media-iBox digital MEDIA CENTER system will help your company master it. Media-iBox MEDIA CENTER is a collection of a backend system which we describe as “digital media engines”, and online client interfaces for consumers (employees or other audiences) to discover, collect, manipulate, selectively or publicly display, secure and share content – be it their own, public or right protected files.
General enterprises may also use Media-iBox MEDIA CENTER for allowing business partners, customers and consumers more freedom to manage their own media and entertainment experiences. Your company’s “Media Center” online application, in standalone form or as part of the Intranet system, will invite seamless and controlled sharing of media streams and files, bounded only by corporate guidelines implemented by the IT department.
Media-iBox digital content management and distribution systems open protected pathways deep in the media organization: to index, catalog, meta-tag, search, retrieve and track digital content usage based on access rights – around the clock, with little need for human intervention.
Media-iBox MEDIA CENTER digital asset management features will allow for network-wide deployment of personalized online destinations where users and consumers will be able to search, rank, manipulate, display and share:
Digital Photos
Digital Video
Digital Audio including Digital Music and Recordings
Podcasting
Audio Blogging
Video Blogging (on broadband networks only)
And all related metadata to make sense and define behavior for each file or group of files. While your company’s Media Center will most likely be experienced from a PC, digital media streams and files can be sent to a variety of devices including the latest generation of mobile phones. Podcasting and Audio Blogging can be authored from the PC or any landline or mobile telephone.
The Media-iBox digital MEDIA CENTER system frees time and resources, enabling you to further focus on your core business - be it in the public Internet or a private network, while retaining full and creative control over functionality and performance of a number of value added services to be offered to your audience.
LabOne is your dream “go-to” company for anything Digital Media. LabOne is 100% focused on your business and opportunity, designs around it, and rapid-deploys one or more systems applications yielding unique and highly customized solutions. This degree of customization coupled with only weeks or months of development will shield your company from the “me too” syndrome brought about by digital media outsourcing companies. We can do so, and so fast, for LabOne has built a number of core “digital media engines” that are continuously expanded and improved. LabOne has dozens of major systems in operation and an impeccable and proven track record.
Media-iBox digital MEDIA CENTER makes outsourced or “white label media sites” obsolete and enables new and compelling narrowband, broadband, and mobile music and video commerce services that are:
Visually compelling (up to DVD quality video)
Personalized & Relevant to your company and your user/consumer
Interactive & Engaging
Seamlessly Transactive
Measurable & Actionable
Secure and Scalable
Load-balanced for intelligent use of available bandwidth
Support and Upgrades directly from LabOne
Video and audio files can be streamed to most devices beyond that have gone beyond the personal computer. Couple with the fact that even the heaviest video files can be delivered to hard drives or flash memories, LabOne’s applications based on Media-iBox digital MEDIA CENTER will allow for outstanding quality streaming or file play back experiences at any time, on Internet-connected PCs, portable devices, mobile phones and new generation televisions.
Media-iBox’s digital media management capabilities provide innovative methods of organizing, distributing, and tracking assets across multiple channels and can be easily integrated with existing content management systems.
For automated encoding processes, Media-iBox platform offers a high performance encoding solution that handles multiple format encoding, including Microsoft® Windows Media (7, 8 and 9), RealNetworks, H263, H264, 3GPP and MPEG-4 (part 3 and part 10). The encoder can be installed in multiple machines, all connected to a single Media-iBox instance. Encoding experts can manage encoding profiles and assign different encoding profiles based on content type or publishing purposes (content that will be sent through mobile will be encoded in 3gpp, while downloadable content will be encoded with windows media 9 2Mbps, for example).
The system also manages 100% of DRM packaging. Some profiles (like high resolution versions, for download) can have DRM as a requirement, hiding complex tasks related to DRM (like generation of keys and packaging) from encoding operators.
Secure and regulates access to video and other media type, through tight integration with DRM technology from Microsoft. Automate, simplify and enhance DRM functions for both consumers and publishers through intuitive control interfaces.
LabOne uses the latest technology available from proven and industry standards like .Net, J2EE, XML, SSL, HTTP, as well as industry-leading technologies such as Microsoft Windows Media DRM.
Through LabOne and Media-iBox, monetization is made easy through customized solutions including integrated advertising, pay services including pay-per-view, pay-to-own and subscriptions.
Value added applications that can be rapid-deployed and customized over the Media-iBox STORE systems include but are not limited to:
Live/On-Demand Video Services to Consumers
Online Music Store
Mobile Network Music/Ringtone/Truetone Store
Video Download Store
Commerce-enabled Personalized Digital Media Centers
Podcasting or Phone Podcasting Portals
Any of the Media-iBox systems can be hosted anywhere on the Internet, distributed or on a single datacenter, with or without redundancy, and at the customer and rights holder’s discretion. The number of servers and software installations is limited only by the licensing agreement with LabOne Systems. Should it be required, and as part of its rapid-deployment proposition LabOne will also provide on-demand encoding and client interface design and implementation.
To learn more about LabOne’s systems for content aggregators, r/ecord labels, movie studios, e-commerce media destinations, or anyone wanting to seriously market and sell digital media over the Internet or mobile networks, please contact us.
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