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Agile Monitoring Supports Growth Of OTT November 5th 2020 - 09:30 AM

To maintain high quality of experience for their customers, content providers need a way to monitor hundreds—sometimes thousands—of channels without compromising real-time error detection. In most cases, the immense scale of their service offerings makes continual visual monitoring of all streams physically impossible and error prone. To meet this need, the flexibility, scalability and agility of software-defined monitoring systems is applied to achieve unlimited multiviewer scaling and fully automated monitoring and alarming to meet this rapidly increasing need.

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Data Recording and Transmission: Part 25 - Encryption Strategies November 4th 2020 - 09:00 AM

As in all systems where there are opposed ideologies, there is a kind of cold war in which advances on one side need to be balanced by advances on the other. In encryption, the availability of increased computing power at low cost made it easier to break codes, but it also made it easier to create strong codes.

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AI Based & GPU Accelerated Compression & Image Processing Are Igniting Video’s Afterburner October 30th 2020 - 09:00 AM

The impact of AI on videoconferencing bandwidth reduction couldn’t be accelerating at a more opportune time.

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Facebook offers free video captioning on all English-language Facebook pages in the U.S.

At Facebook, AI Tackles Automated Captioning For Online Video October 29th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Online video captioning is critical for the deaf community at any time, but during a public health emergency like COVID-19, it has taken on a new significance, particularly as people stay at home.

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The Sponsors Perspective: Effectively Using The Power Of Immersive Audio October 27th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Lawo’s Christian Scheck takes a tour of console functions and features that have a special place in immersive audio production, and how they are developing.

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The new Microsoft Video Authenticator rates videos with a percentage chance that the content has been artificially manipulated.

Protecting Newsrooms And Viewers From Deepfake Videos October 26th 2020 - 09:00 AM

In the age of eager reporters surfing the internet for scandalous scoops, who is helping defend TV station newsrooms by detecting and tagging fake pictures and videos before they air, and how are they doing it? Hint: It’s not ‘golden eyes’ or government regulators.

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Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 5 - Processing Gamma Corrected Signals October 22nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

It is unwise to pretend that gamma corrected signals can successfully be multiplied, added and subtracted in a matrix as if they represented linear light. Yet in television it is done all the time.

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The Sponsors Perspective: Notre Dame’s IP-Based Campus Crossroads Project October 20th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Here, we take a look at the landmark installation at the University of Notre Dame that highlights one of the biggest advantages of IP-based systems - flexibility. In the past networks have required a lot of cables and interconnections, today, a single cable can deliver every signal to any endpoint in real time, and with outstanding quality, and robustness.

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