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South Carolina’s largest educational technology conference happens at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center with content and activities in all areas of educational technology, with diverse workshops, presentations, speakers, exhibitors, and recognition events.

DiscoverVideo will be demonstrating its video school news kit and education video system with WH Platts, one of South Carolina’s premier AV integrators.

About SC EdTech Conference

SC EdTech Conference’s primary goal is to bring all planners and end users together to think, discuss, listen, and learn. Thought leaders and vendors present the best solutions for today’s flexible classroom and virtual audiences.

About Discover Video, LLC

DiscoverVideo provides scalable streaming and hosting video solutions. Their platform enables live stream broadcasts of morning announcements and events, and serves unlimited digital signage, private IPTV, and emergency video and text messaging, and more.

About WH Platts

The WH Platts Company is a Design/Build Integrator of professional Audio, Lighting and Video equipment. They offer comprehensive and modern audio-visual solutions that help schools connect and collaborate in innovative ways, and simplify technically complex processes. WH Platts has served the South East for over 35 years, with offices in Charleston, South Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Kentucky Court System challenges the flexibility and power of the DiscoverVideo enterprise video content management ecosystem to stream and record in the name of justice.

December 28, 2020, Wallingford CT — DiscoverVideo showcases the application of its streaming enterprise content management system DEVOS to help the KAOC (Kentucky Administration Office of the Courts) to integrate live streaming, media management, and video-on-demand into the judicial process.

The Kentucky AOC oversees all the courts – Supreme, Appeals, Circuit, Family and District – in 120 counties. These courts are busy places, with
sometimes up to 50 cases in a day.

Recording all audio and video of each of 463 courtrooms, every day, makes the KAOC judicial system the largest video production company in Kentucky tristate area (Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky).

The court system is currently transitioning from DVDs to e-court, with recordings available on-demand, through the DiscoverVideo DEVOS platform, expediting the appellate case process.

TV monitors have been turned into digital signage and private IPTV with DiscoverVideo SignSticks®. They show the court docket in real time and custom signage with instructions for self-representation.

QR codes link to video instructions for self-representation. QR codes help give also access to upload digital evidence, and allow anyone to view proceedings on-demand from any device or location.

A Unified Video System for a Unified Court System Delivers Efficiency of Scale

Digital file accessibility is just one of the many challenges that the DEVOS streaming platform solved for Kentucky’s court system.

• Deploys a singular platform that can stream live video of court sessions inside and outside each of the 463 courtrooms on all desktop and mobile devices. Previously, a live stream was only available to the wider public on KET, a PBS TV station.
• Provides video-on-demand for recorded cases available with a password or QR code for viewing on any device.
• Instructs laypeople with video about court protocol, what to expect from the process, and how to present their case.
• Securely transfers recordings, emails and texts from a smart phone or digital device for those without legal representation into evidence and into the court recording.
• Broadcasts a court’s docket in real time via digital signage.
• Easily changes the display and support a variety of media files for announcements and resource information.
• Delivers live video to and from locations where TV coax cable is not available.
• Distributes live and recorded HD video over a court building’s existing wired and wireless Ethernet network and not affect the IP connection to the Internet.

Why Kentucky Courts Chose to Digitize with DEVOS and DiscoverVideo

“Bringing video to our court system has been very helpful in solving problems and communicating. DEVOS makes it incredibly easy. DiscoverVideo has worked with us to develop a platform that allows us the flexibility for our specific uses. They truly listen to their customers to make the program better. DEVOS is a great product that fits with what the court system needs.”

Paul Culbertson
AV architect for Kentucky Administration Office of the Courts

About Discover Video, LLC

Discover Video is a leading software, hardware, and services provider of end-to-end turnkey streaming solutions, for broadcasting and delivering live and on-demand video, presentations, and digital signage to employees, students, or the general public.  Their clients include large and small enterprises in educational institutions, schools, corporations, and governments. DiscoverVideo products and services provide a complete enterprise streaming ecosystem. 

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Discover video is proud to share this list with our partner Cielo24  and competitor partners Telestream and IBM Watson Media.

AI driven closed captioning is an automatic feature of our DEVOS streaming media server, providing instant ADA compliance for the hearing impaired. More importantly closed captioning increases comprehension, information retention, and viewership. Being able to search for keywords in closed captioning content is a time-saver, especially for educators looking for a specific word or phrase for classroom instruction materials.

Discover Video offers three different ways to caption video content: uploading a .vtt file to the DEVOS server, using automated captioning services, and professional human captioning service through its partner, Cielo24.

DiscoverVideo is a US-based leading software, hardware, and services provider for broadcasting and delivering live and on-demand video, presentations, and digital signage. We focus on the enterprise where network citizenship and security are crucial. We support all five screens and a complete video ecosystem. Our customers include educational institutions, schools, corporations, and local, state, and federal governments.

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NOVEMBER 1 , 2020 – WALLINGFORD, CT DiscoverVideo, a streaming video management platform company, reports 50% growth in 2020, as more students and workers learn and work remotely.

2020 has brought huge growth to DiscoverVideo products and services. Their DEVOS streaming video platform currently supports more than 30% of Connecticut’s public school systems, and hundreds of K-12 school districts and higher ed institutions across the United States. Their system is also used by governments, businesses, and healthcare facilities. When compared to 2019, revenues have increased 57%, system shipments have increased 250%, and new customers have increased 320%.

“We have supported distance learning for school districts, broadcast all-hands company meetings, and streamed government events since 2009,” said Discover’s CEO, Rich Mavrogeanes. “The pandemic has just accelerated the adaptation of streaming non-commercial content into education and business systems.”

DiscoverVideo is one of several private video management companies that has flourished as a result of people working and schooling from home. The DEVOS enterprise video platform is constantly evolving to meet customer and technology needs, including video morning announcements, and distance learning solutions.

“One key to our success,” Mr. Mavrogeanes said, “is listening to our customers and making our software easier to use, yet more powerful, with every software update.”

DiscoverVideo was named to Streaming Media Magazine’s “Top 50” most influential leaders in streaming technology in August, 2020. It has also been nominated in 11 “best of” categories, including “enterprise video platform.”

Bootstrap Beginnings

Rich Mavrogeanes, serial entrepreneur and streaming industry pioneer, started DiscoverVideo in 2008 with a bootstrap approach. Having learned the risks of working with private venture capitalists, he only accepted loans and grants from the State of Connecticut. The business was profitable from the start, and free from the worry of private investors pushing him in the wrong direction.

“Venture capitalists encourage you to live beyond your means,” Mavrogeanes said. “At Discover, we don’t have to impress anybody but ourselves and our customers.”

DiscoverVideo’s Winning Business Model

DiscoverVideo is fundamentally a software provider that specializes in plug-and-play streaming video systems for education, state and local governments, and corporations.

Unlike most of their competitors, DiscoverVideo’s focus is on on-premises server solutions with a yearly software subscription. “While we are happy to provide cloud-based service for our customers, we encourage them to use the on-prem version, or a combination of both. There is a greater degree of privacy, security, and control that comes with having your own server inside your organization’s firewall,” says Rich Mavrogeanes.

Their customer base is geographically diverse, with many customers in Connecticut, the South East, the Mid West, and a few overseas.

Schools and companies use a video platform like Discover’s to broadcast video from a central location; the broadcast is simultaneously viewed in dozens of classrooms, or on thousands of desk tops and mobile devices. Mavrogeanes says, “For our competitors, video platform integration involves a deep involvement with the schools’ or company’s IT system. In this plug-and-play system, the level of difficulty is drastically reduced.”

A Typical DiscoverVideo Client

Tim Wheeler, chief information officer for the New London Public Schools, agrees with Mr. Mavrogeanes’ claims of easy network and user interface. In 2012 they switched their video system to Discover Video with a state-funded grant of $120,000, which Discover helped them to write. Maintaining New London’s video system also gave the school significant savings over the previous vendor.

Wheeler says that teachers use the system for professional development, filming themselves teaching using an iPad on a tripod. Less experienced teachers draw inspiration from watching master teachers. All teachers use the video to critique and improve their “performance.”

Students use simplified cameras supplied by DiscoverVideo to film morning announcements. The school board uses the system to record its meetings. “We found teachers shied away from the old system because it was cumbersome to use, Wheeler said. “The main reason we use so much of DiscoverVideo is really how easy it is to use.”

A Discover client for almost a decade, New London’s Public School District didn’t miss a beat as schools closed due to COVID-19. They are now using the same recording and broadcast system for remote teaching and hybrid classrooms.

Toby Mathew, New London District’s Visual Information Specialist, reported that he used Learning Path, the video course creation tool, to prepare teachers for the 20-21 school year. He created videos for safety procedures and protocols, which were mandatory training. He said, “With Learning Path, I was able to easily create and share the presentation. Most importantly, we were able to document that everyone had seen the videos and completed the training. There was a question embedded at the end to verify they had watched and understood the training. We had some minor difficulties with the interface, but the DiscoverVideo help desk quickly resolved our issues. It was a huge help to have this kind of capability in a system familiar to teachers and staff.”

Virtual Ahead of Its Time

Discover is a lean team, with its management , development, and help desk based in Connecticut, and its sales team virtual in Florida. In the beginning, their vice president of engineering, an immigrant from Kuwait, used his Arabic-language skills to manage a development team based in Ukraine and Egypt.

Since COVID hit in March 2020, the CT team works virtually from home. Staff meetings are conducted using their own web video conference Zoom plugin. “Not only are we DiscoverVideo managers, we’re also clients!” said Mavrogeanes.

The Next Five Years

As the development of DiscoverVideo enterprise video platform’s 5th generation nears completion, Mavrogeanes looks into the future by reflecting on his four-decade career in the video streaming industry.

“What’s coming next for streaming is the same as ever: faster and more secure transmission, higher definition picture, and easier implementation and management. What that means for DiscoverVideo is continued growth. There are plenty more campuses, companies, and communities who want to upgrade all their video communication needs with a high-touch one-stop solution.”

About DiscoverVideo

DiscoverVideo is a US-based leading software, hardware, and services provider for broadcasting and delivering live and on-demand video, presentations, and digital signage. We focus on the enterprise where network citizenship and security are crucial. We support all five screens and a complete video ecosystem. Our customers include educational institutions, schools, corporations, and local, state, and federal governments.

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August 24, 2020, Wallingford, CT — Discover Video has announced the capability of DEVOS subscribers to broadcast and record their Zoom meetings and live events. One of the latest features of DEVOS (Digital Enterprise Video Online System) from DiscoverVideo, allows customers to simultaneously stream their single or multi-party conferences to a wider audience than is possible with web conference alone, and to automatically record to their own private online video library.

This interface is available to Zoom Pro, Business, Education, and Enterprise accounts where the host is licensed and client version 4.4.53582 or higher is installed.

“In just a few weeks Zoom has became a verb to mean ‘video conferencing,’” said DiscoverVideo CEO, Rich Mavrogeanes. “We wanted to create value-added features for our current and new customers that was complimentary to what is happening in streaming video industry.”

Easy Zoom Interface

For those building an on-demand library for training and education purposes, DEVOS is wonderful compliment to Zoom. Live sessions are automatically recorded to their DEVOS library, with immediate video-on-demand viewing.

DEVOS for Online Learning

DEVOS is already a comprehensive video ecosystem that provides unlimited live streaming, video on demand, digital signage, and priority alert. But with this addition of two-way video web conference capabilities, DEVOS is the perfect solution for schools, businesses, and institutions adapting to remote and hybrid working and learning.

The DEVOS platform is ideal for any size organizations adapting an online education and blended classroom model. Teachers and students at any level can use the same logins from school, home, or any remote location to access their streaming and video-on-demand libraries.

“Online teaching for instructors and administrators can be stressful,” said DiscoverVideo CEO, Rich Mavrogeanes. “Having all the controls of video conferencing, recording, and distribution in the DEVOS ecosystem helps to reduce that stress by all the functionality they need in a secure and familiar platform.”

More DEVOS Functionality

This Zoom interface joins existing DEVOS features which include:

• Unlimited live streaming and integrated encoders.
• Unlimited user-defined channels for live, video-on-demand, presentations, audio, and more.
• Viewing on desktops, smartphones, tablets, set top boxes, Roku players, etc. without plugins or software installation.
• Emergency notification to desktops, digital signage, and mobile devices.
• Enterprise level broadcasting via StreamPump®.

About Discover Video, LLC

Discover Video is a leading software, hardware, and services provider for broadcasting and delivering live and on-demand video, presentations, and digital signage. We focus on the enterprise where network citizenship and security are crucial. We support all five screens and a complete video ecosystem. Our customers include educational institutions, schools, corporations, and local, state, and federal governments.

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August 10, 2020 – WALLINGFORD, CT – DiscoverVideo makes the elite list of the 50 most notable companies in the video streaming service space based in North America, according to Streaming Media Magazine.

“The annual Streaming Media 50 list shines a spotlight on the industry’s most important technology suppliers and platforms, as chosen by our editorial team,” said Streaming Media editor-in-chief and VP Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen. “Whether a big company or a small one, an industry veteran or a startup, these companies stand out from the crowd due to their innovation and commitment to the customer.”

DiscoverVideo CEO, Rich Mavrogeanes, was thrilled with acknowledgment of his company’s hard work. “With everyone streaming everything everywhere, there is a lot of competition in this industry. We are grateful to Streaming Media for putting us in the top tier and recognizing our efforts to bring excellence in streaming media management and delivery. See the full list of 50 Streaming Media industry technology leaders.

Learn More About Products and Services Nominated in Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards

About DiscoverVideo

DiscoverVideo is a US-based leading software, hardware, and services provider for broadcasting and delivering live and on-demand video, presentations, and digital signage. We focus on the enterprise where network citizenship and security are crucial. We support all five screens and a complete video ecosystem. Our customers include educational institutions, schools, corporations, and local, state, and federal governments.

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DiscoverVideo will be in the virtual Exhibitor Hall at the United States Distance Learning Association’s (USDLA) 2020 Virtual Annual Conference. Hall hours are 6:00 to 8:00 PM EST on Tuesday, July 21 and from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM EST on both Wednesday July 22 and Thursday, July 23.

Virtual Conference Rooms

USDLA will be using Zoom meeting rooms to conduct their sessions with conference attendees looking to learn more about virtual/blended learning tools offered by the company.

The DEVOS Advantage

Educational, Enterprise, Healthcare and Government entities are using DEVOS for multiple applications including:

• Live web streaming of meetings
• Recording and on-demand delivery of rich-media instructional material
• Interactive video conferencing meetings
• Digital signage
• Priority alerts
• Much more

Awards Ceremony Broadcast

The 2020 International Distance Learning Awards event will be on Thursday July 23rd from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM (ET). The Awards ceremony will be live streamed courtesy of Discover Video.

About DiscoverVideo

Discover Video is a leading software, hardware, and services provider for broadcasting and delivering live and on-demand video, presentations, and digital signage. We focus on the enterprise where network citizenship and security are crucial. We support all five screens and a complete video ecosystem. Our customers include educational institutions, schools, corporations, and local, state, and federal governments.

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April 8, 2020, Wallingford CT — DiscoverVideo showcases the application of its streaming software, Streamsie, and cloud server, Arcus, for distance learning.

The University of North Florida’s College of Computing, Engineering and Construction has used DiscoverVideo’s Streamsie software encoder and Arcus cloud server for distance learning since 2011. As COVID-19 made universities close and embrace online education, UNF CCEC simply expanded their online curriculum.

Every week the College produces a live broadcast/ recording of five classes in a dedicated distance learning classroom. The classes are cast over the Internet for on-demand streaming of the recorded lectures. Files are automatically uploaded to the UNF’s Canvas Learning Management System. Distance learning students then have unlimited access to video lectures anytime, anyplace using broadband or Wi-Fi. Faculty also have access to their distance learning lectures to review content and teaching style.

“We absolutely LOVE DiscoverVideo and the products they’ve developed. There are very few software companies that truly listen to their customer’s needs. The service is excellent; they always answer the questions quickly and thoroughly. The feedback from faculty and students has been wonderful. We’re so glad we chose DiscoverVideo.”

Elaine Poppell Sr. Broadcast Technologist
University of North Florida College of Computing, Engineering & Construction

Streamsie Features:

• Video file sizes are adjustable to manage data storage, and upload and download bandwidth requirements.
• The stream can be paused to accommodate teacher setup of PowerPoint or demonstrations.
• Video files are automatically uploaded to the LMS.
• Streamsie easily interfaces with third-party appliances, hardware, and servers.

About Discover Video, LLC

Discover Video is a leading software, hardware, and services provider of end-to-end turnkey streaming solutions, for broadcasting and delivering live and on-demand video, presentations, and digital signage to employees, students, or the general public.  Their clients include large and small enterprises in educational institutions, schools, corporations, and governments. DiscoverVideo products and services provide a complete enterprise streaming ecosystem. 

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Contact
Mike Savic, Discover Video, LLC
203-626-5267 | mikes@discovervideo.com

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