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Twitter, a credible source of TV news? Jon Stewart thinks not!

What a simple TV search for "Twitter" can do to inspire a LOL three-minute segment on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Lots of talk show hosts can ...

It's illegal to use government footage on TV for comedy/satire in the UK & Australia!

Since our TV search technology is used by a lot of comedy TV shows (like Daily Show, Colbert Report, the Soup, Best Week Ever) to expose the follies ...

HD Encoder Review: Blonder Tongue HDE-2H-QAM

It's been a while since I wrote about how to build your own digital cable (aka QAM) headend.

Farewell to TV Trends

Today, we are saying goodbye to TV Trends. Since launching the free, online service in 2009, we have gleaned tons of valuable insight into what's ...

Loving Louisville and IACP's PIO Mid-Year Training Conference

I had the pleasure of being invited to guest speak at IACP’s PIO Mid-Year Conference in beautiful Louisville, KY. Louisville has tons to offer ...

Why does closed captioning goof up?

A: Here at SnapStream HQ, we are deeply entrenched in closed captioning since it's a key ingredient in our TV search juice. But every so often, we'll ...

5.3 Web Player Demonstration

We held a live, interactive demonstration of SnapStream's new Web Player on Thursday, July 7. Now, here's the video recording for your viewing ...

Experience TV Search in your Web browser (SnapStream 5.3)

Get a load of SnapStream's first ever Web Player plug-in, now available in version 5.3 for enterprise users. We're very excited about the release of ...

Closed captioning bloopers, blunders, gaffes, goofs and FAILS!

It's no secret that closed captioning data is mission critical to SnapStream's powerful TV search technology. For the deaf or hard-of-hearing, ...