PinnedMatthijs Langendijk·Feb 28, 2024State of Smart and Connected TV 2024: A Comprehensive GuideThe start of the year has seen plenty of announcements, deals, and other moves in the world of Smart and Connected TV. New operating…
Matthijs Langendijk·May 26How I use AI tooling as a Streaming EngineerStreaming is fun, and so is AI. The combination? Even better! Because it’s made me so much more effective at my job. No more taking days to…
Matthijs Langendijk·May 26How I use Agentic AI to build in video streamingI’m addicted. Yes. Building with tools like Claude Code is honestly a drug. I can’t stop. But honestly that may just be a good thing. It’s…
Matthijs Langendijk·Mar 26Lightning 3.1: Migrating from Blits v1 to Blits v2With the recent announcement of Lightning 3.1 last week, a new version of Blits has dropped alongside it. This grouped release bundles…
Matthijs Langendijk·Mar 22A first look at the new Video.js v10 betaWould you believe it’s been more than 15 years since the folks now at Mux released the first version of Video.js on Github? If you’ve been…
Matthijs Langendijk·Feb 12100 blogs, what’s next?Milestone achieved! This is blog 100. Back when I started around 8 years ago, I could have never imagined it would lead here. Not the…
Matthijs Langendijk·Jan 12CES 2026: It’s an AI home-screen battle.Another year, another CES! And where in previous iterations I really tried to focus on the things that make televisions what they are…
Matthijs Langendijk·Dec 18, 2025OTT & Video Predictions for 2026It’s that time again! While we’re all still incredibly busy finishing off this year, heads are slowly but steadily starting to turn towards…
Matthijs Langendijk·Dec 7, 2025Are we ready for Multi-CDN with Content Steering?You may have noticed over the past weeks/months; quite a few CDN and Cloud outages happened. Cloudflare, Azure, AWS, all have been…
Matthijs Langendijk·Nov 19, 2025The ‘new’ YouTube Smart TV Player UIMuch like Netflix, Google likes to experiment too. Where you’ve seen Netflix update their whole UI in the recent past, Google is starting…A response icon1A response icon1