Playcast Media Systems brings video games to the world’s largest media distribution platform – Pay TV networks. The company’s solution includes a head-end based system, which streams a game’s audiovisual content as a standard MPEG stream, as well as the provisioning of the content and programming itself.
Playcast’s media streaming systems, located in operators’ headends, host the games and stream them over the existing video network to an already distributed base of set-top boxes.
Playcast is a privately owned, venture capital backed company, based in Israel and the UK.
Financials
| Date | Type | Amount | Investors | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/01/11 | Series B | 10M | Unknown |
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