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Media and Entertainment
Whether you're a digital content owner, distributor, or creator, Sun has solutions and in-depth expertise throughout the Media & Entertainment, Broadcast, Cable, and Internet Services industries.
In fact, Sun's brand-name portfolio of customer successes cover media asset management, games, music, sports and many other industry-specific technologies, from the TV to the mobile phone. Backed by our Java technology, Solaris, and StorageTek brands, and depth of engineering expertise, we can solve even the largest digital media challenges. Chances are, we've already done it.
Sun Entertainment & Media User Group, Los Angeles
SEMUG is a community of media content creators who share information and best practices on today's hottest topics in Sun-hosted technical briefings held quarterly in greater Los Angeles. High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance
HANA is creating standards-based solutions to facilitate commercial deployment of connected products and services that enhance the consumer HD entertainment experience. Open Media Commons - OpenSource DRM
Project DReaM is an initiative to develop an open Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution and Reference Architecture for multiple domains (media, documents, enterprise, personal, etc.).
Latest Customer Success
HBO
HBO used Sun servers, storage, software and services to move its library of standard- and high-definition movies from videotape to digital storage. The entertainment giant now can deliver content to affiliates and end-users. HBO has also achieved significant savings in labor and maintenance cost by eliminating 80% of its videotape equipment.
Betfair
Seeking to reduce skyrocketing energy costs and minimize its impact on the environment, Betfair turned to Sun for an eco responsible solution that reduced power and cooling consumption and fulfilled its corporate commitment.
eHarmony.com
The widely popular Internet relationship service switched to Sun X64 servers for phenomenal Web site performance improvements and power savings.
Front Porch Digital
Media storage management and integration with file-based workflows for the broadcast industry. Agnostic Media
Distributed, scalable, industrial strength transcoding for hands-off media transformation. SkyMicro
Video and audio I/O and hardware encoding for SD and HD studio and broadcast television.
Spotlight
Content Identification Technologies
Business benefits to content owners and service providers of content ID, watermarking, and fingerprinting technologies.
Sun Reference Architecture for IPTV
The Sun Reference Architecture for IPTV provides personalized information and entertainment, rich interactive services, and unmatched availability. (PDF) Archiving Movies in a Digital World
Economic model, approach to solving the "100-year" archive issue. (PDF)
News
Updates from Sun
Quarterly update provides news and observations on Sun in the industries. (PDF) New Sun Storage Solutions
Sun introduces new open archive solutions to better solve explosive data growth challenges for customers. Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Storage Library delivers up to 50% reduction in space and up to 10x energy costs savings versus comparable storage solutions. AT&T Selects Sun for IPTV
Sun Systems, Storage Technologies Chosen to Support AT&T U-verse TV. »See All
