Several of us from the SnapStream team are in Las Vegas right now at the National Association of Broadcaster's event (we're in the south upper hall #SU2707-- if you're here, stop by and say hi). One of the questions we get a lot of is, simply, "What is SnapStream?"
Alexandra Fenwick at the Columbia Journalism Review interviewed me on a recent trip to New York City. That interview resulted in this piece about SnapStream and how folks are using it in academia and in entertainment. Check it out!
It's traditional television, according to a study that the Pew Research released earlier this month.
Cool! SnapStream's TV search technology got a nice mention on the popular podcast "This Week in Tech (TWiT)" (link) yesterday.
Updated 11/3/2017: added new information about creating a Digital TV head-end in the cloud
Updated 10/18/2011: added information on Drake's HDMI to QAM / HD encoder products-- the DSE24 and the HDE24.
We announced Current TV as a SnapStream customer earlier today (press release copied below).
(First time visitors: Welcome to SnapStream! We make TV search software used by organizations to search inside TV shows. And it's not too expensive, starting at $2,000. What's TV search, you ask? Watch this YouTube video or visit our website to learn more.)
Updated 11/03/2017: added new information on creating a TV headend in the Cloud.
Based out of Houston, SnapStream has been making TV distribution and recording products for over a decade.
TV Networks, TV Shows, Media/News sites , K-12 Schools, Government departments, Journalism colleges and dozens of local TV stations use SnapStream to distribute, record, search, clip and to post clips to Twitter/Facebook.
While most organizations are now looking to create their own digital TV head-end, there are still some who want to go the analog route. This article is for those customers.
New - How to create your own digital (IP) TV head-end in the Cloud
Today, we're launching SnapStream TV Trends (http://www.snapstream.com/tvtrends/), a tool that allows you to track trends on national television here in the United States.
Just a short note to let you that the SnapStream Enterprise Blog has a new name: the SnapStream 'TV Searcher' blog. You can get directly to the renamed blog at: