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Legacy operations like production and playout are gradually moving to the cloud as more systems connect to a facility’s IT backbone. These advances have opened the door to also moving operations-based tasks like QC and QoS monitoring to the cloud.
In a recent survey, we asked a handful of leading media facilities in Europe and North America, among other things, to what extent they agreed with the following two statements: 1. There are too many manual steps in my workflow. 2. There is potential to reduce the number of manual steps through workflow automation. Although there was a little variation between the European and American answers, the trends were largely similar, and the combined result is shown below for the first time.
Now it is the turn of IPTV operators to feel the pinch of cord cutting in the US while their cable competitors are holding firmer against the OTT onslaught. At one time IPTV was seen as the new wave undercutting the legacy satellite and cable operators, but now that it is part of the mainstream operators in this category are equally at threat from cord cutting to a combination of free to air and lower cost subscription VoD services such as Netflix.
Professionals working in live entertainment, sports and news are challenged with capturing, preparing and distributing content in the fastest, most efficient way possible. They also must handle the explosion of new content formats and rising media standards like 4K. Implementing an effective media asset management (MAM) platform that can handle new technologies and benefits the entire production chain has become critical.
Europe’s TV standards body DVB has taken a further step towards Ultra HD TV (UHD) commercial deployment by approving UHD-1 Phase 2 at a recent meeting of its Steering Board. This second phase of the UHD commercial requirements adds support for HDR (High Dynamic Range) and Higher Frame Rate (HFR).
ATSC 3.0 and UHD are on a collision course with the set makers and retailers pushing UHD. But broadcasting UHD in ATSC 3.0 could require the bandwidth many stations now use to generate additional revenue over their sub channels. Add to that, OTA broadcasters face the upcoming questions surrounding the spectrum auction—to play or not? These issues present serious business and technical questions, at least, to US TV broadcasters.
This holiday season will see a buying frenzy of UHD-4K televisions. But, where is the content for these high-rez screens?
In this Part 2 of the series, the author reviews best practices and tools needed to measure consumer’s QoE.
