 
  "PlayON! is continually looking for ways to improve the value of our video offerings with consumers and advertisers. With ad-supported game highlights distributed for free to news sites, social communities and mobile devices, fans can connect with their favorite teams and players on their time. With ExtendMedia, we are able to expand beyond our current live and VOD products, to download-to-own games and portable highlights."
Phil Sharpe,
Senior Vice President and General Manager, PlayON! Sports.  |
OpenCASE Media Players
The OpenCASE Media Agent is an optional client-side component providing support for local rights persistence, advanced download functionality and device management. The Media Agent is a component that can be embedded in the OpenCASE Media Player to enable a simplified installation process, and allow the it to run as one process on the consumer’s PC. Alternatively it can be deployed as a standalone application for use with 3rd Party Players. The Media Agent automatically manages all content acquisition and storage. When active on the network it effectively becomes a “listener” for the content delivery streams, acquiring and persisting the assets that the subscriber has expressed interest in.
The OpenCASE Media Agent provides a collection of features and capabilities including:
The OpenCASE Media Player framework facilitates a variety of customization models: from branding via quick CSS-based skinning (e.g. graphics, fonts, colors), to complex customizations involving layout changes, to additional customized features and functionality.
The business logic or Player framework layer consists of modular building blocks that can be reused across customized players. These include components that handle configuration, Media Agent access, logging etc. The Player framework is unchanged across customer or service offerings and, as such, provides a solid foundation for developing customized, branded customer experiences. The modular player architecture provides three tiers of customization. In the order of increasing complexity and flexibility they are:
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