Item: IBM Video Streaming
Rating: 8
Author: Jon Stothard

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Watson Media's Video Streaming

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a multi-site teaching facility. IBM Watson allows talks and presentations from one site to be streamed to other locations or to staff members at home. Due to the low-cost hardware required, any PC and a simple capture card, it outweighs more expensive solutions.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Low cost hardware requirement
Low cost subscription model
Easy to use

Cons

Automated subtitling included in subscription
More generous streaming capacity included in standard package
Better online video management tools - I discovered very old videos were being stored without my knowledge

Likelihood to Recommend

Low viewership streams are where IBM Watson excels, this is not due to IBM's bandwidth capacity obviously! This is more down to a subscription model that, in effect, punishes you for having a popular stream.

There is no obvious security, so confidential data cannot be streamed using this service.

For a "quick and dirty" solution, this works well.

IBM Video Streaming Feature Ratings

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Video streaming over multiple corporate sites

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