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Whether you’re in the business of delivering films, TV programmes, sports events or immersive games, your audiences demand brilliance. With LimelightHD, you’ll delight viewers with true HD video that renders in amazing clarity and speed over the Internet. Best of all, this high-performance service allows you to deliver enormous HD files while conforming to the economics of your business.

LimelightHD builds on our LimelightDELIVER and LimelightSTREAM services, leveraging the same robust network to speed delivery of HD video to your audience’s screens. Our massively provisioned distribution centres cache all your active HD content at the edge of the Internet. We connect your entire library directly with over 800 broadband access networks around the world, ensuring that when a viewer hits Play, your HD video plays in an instant. No false starts and no skips or stutters. And with our 100 per cent SLA, delivery is guaranteed, all day and night, all the time.

It starts with your existing catalogue, delivered using our LimelightSTREAM or LimelightDELIVER service. With LimelightHD, we add high-performance delivery of the content you choose to make available in HD. Our service handles video at 720p and 1080p resolution and at bit rates of 1.5Mbps or higher — significantly better than the 400Kbps video quality typically available on the Internet today.

Because not every user is on a broadband connection, we also host the standard definition (SD) titles that correspond to your HD titles. Our network determines which users can accept delivery of rich HD video and serves them the full HD file in all its glory. The SD content will be delivered to anyone on a slower connection. No matter what, your content is always instantly available to your audiences, wherever they are in the world.

Our pricing structure is just as intelligent as our network. Rather than price HD delivery as a function of file size, we offer a quality incentive that allows you to deploy HD video content at minimal incremental cost over your current SD video. So there’s no major impact on your existing business model.

How do you monetise HD content unless you can verify that people are receiving it? Our advanced reporting system tracks LimelightHD traffic separately from your other LimelightDELIVER or LimelightSTREAM traffic, making it easy to analyse audience viewing habits and preferences — and guiding development of your HD business. Completion reporting allows you to parse data about each file transaction, including date and time, crucial for bill-back support. You can even see how users interact with each file — for example, whether they go back and play the same sequence over and over again. And the Geo Reporting option enables you to assess your HD traffic at a global or continent level — and drill down instantly for city-by-city details.