Smart TVs and the Web: How Bitmovin Improved Startup Performance by up to 45%
TL;DR Improving Player performance Bitmovin’s Web team has been working on four areas over 2025 and 2026: startup performance, bundle size, memory and ad transitions. Much of that work was aimed at smart TVs, where hardware is constrained, devices stay in living rooms for years and small inefficiencies in a web player quickly show up…