There’s more than a dozen streaming media boxes on the market today and trying to compare their technical specs and which content platforms they support can be a challenge. So I’ve put together an updated chart which compares the top 14 devices. This is an update to last year’s chart and includes recently released boxes from Roku 3, Hisense, Asus, Nintendo and also many of the new content platforms like Redbox and others. You can download a high-res PDF copy of the chart by clicking on the image below and you can always find the latest version of the chart at www.StreamingMediaDevices.com

I will update the chart throughout the year when new devices come out and new content platforms are supported. I’d like to thank many of the device manufactures who verified the information on the chart and helped put it together including Roku, Sony, Boxee, Western Digital, Netgear, D-Link, TiVo and Microsoft. Thanks also to Dolby and Encoding.com who sponsored the chart and helped us distribute print copies at the Streaming Media East show this week.

If you have questions on which box you should choose, send me an email and I’ll help you out. Chart corrections and suggestions can also be left in the comments section below.

Getting content from point A to point B is only half the problem. The other half is addressing the complexity of making sure that the right content is delivered to the right audience. Content delivery is evolving by converging the physical delivery with the workflow pieces required to create and manage the content that enables customers to capitalize on a heightened level of efficiency to their business.

On Monday at the Content Delivery Summit in NYC, Limelight Networks explores how content delivery is evolving into an “outsourced business process” that includes content workflows and how businesses can benefit from the value provided by the integration of content and delivery workflows.

Now in its fifth year, the Content Delivery Summit is a one-day conference designed to bring together telecom carriers, service providers, content owners, and industry vendors for a detailed look at CDN platforms for the delivery of video and content acceleration. Online registration is now closed, but readers of my blog can still register onsite using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a ticket to the show for only $395.

Speakers and presenters include: Netflix, eBay, LinkedIn, Redbox, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, TeliaSonera, Comcast, Charter Communications, Telstra, Pacnet, Telin as well as many of today’s leading solution providers. (#cdnsummit)

As content delivery services become increasingly complicated and diverse with dominant IaaS players, multi-CDN strategies, private cloud deployments, and 3rd party SaaS platforms, trying to track operational costs per delivery service and region can be very difficult. On Monday at the Content Delivery Summit in NYC, Stackpop will showcase a new platform designed to specifically address the pain points of Ops and IT professionals who manage the technical infrastructure that makes their companies run smoothly. See the latest tools that allow you to simplify managing, sourcing and optimizing infrastructure services from multiple vendors, while providing visibility into costs and contract terms for managing your IT deployments.

Now in its fifth year, the Content Delivery Summit is a one-day conference designed to bring together telecom carriers, service providers, content owners, and industry vendors for a detailed look at CDN platforms for the delivery of video and content acceleration. Online registration is now closed, but readers of my blog can still register onsite using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a ticket to the show for only $395.

Speakers and presenters include: Netflix, eBay, LinkedIn, Redbox, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, TeliaSonera, Comcast, Charter Communications, Telstra, Pacnet, Telin as well as many of today’s leading solution providers. (#cdnsummit)

On Monday at the Content Delivery Summit in NYC, Akamai and Charter Communications will discuss industry trends leading network operators to evaluate and implement CDN software, and will showcase Charter Communications’ successful implementation of CDN. Charter will explain its decision to utilize a standard CDN approach to video, the challenges and best practices for implementation, its architecture, rollout process, results and next steps.

Now in its fifth year, the Content Delivery Summit is a one-day conference designed to bring together telecom carriers, service providers, content owners, and industry vendors for a detailed look at CDN platforms for the delivery of video and content acceleration. Online registration is now closed, but readers of my blog can still register onsite using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a ticket to the show for only $395.

Speakers and presenters include: Netflix, eBay, LinkedIn, Redbox, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, TeliaSonera, Comcast, Charter Communications, Telstra, Pacnet, Telin as well as many of today’s leading solution providers. (#cdnsummit)

On Monday at the Content Delivery Summit in NYC, Marta Garcia Lopez, Senior Manager of CDN Strategy and Marketing will give an in-depth look into Telefonica’s CDN initiatives and their present and future CDN strategy and deployments. Hear Telefonica´s view on the evolution of the CDN market and potential solutions for a converged CDN and cloud delivery scenario where telco’s play a key role in end-to-end delivery in the market. Analysis of different strategic solutions, including assessment of the future of interconnection models and partnerships will also be discussed.

Now in its fifth year, the Content Delivery Summit is a one-day conference designed to bring together telecom carriers, service providers, content owners, and industry vendors for a detailed look at CDN platforms for the delivery of video and content acceleration. Online registration is now closed, but readers of my blog can still register onsite using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a ticket to the show for only $395.

Speakers and presenters include: Netflix, eBay, LinkedIn, Redbox, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, TeliaSonera, Comcast, Charter Communications, Telstra, Pacnet, Telin as well as many of today’s leading solution providers. (#cdnsummit)