A lot of people are prepared to fly on an airline that provides very poor customer service if they think they are getting a bargain ticket by doing so. For others, a pleasant travel experience is part of the holiday, and worth paying a bit more for. But basically, if you have the choice between the two, you have little cause to complain if you buy cheap and get cheap. What hurts is when you pay for a good service and don’t get it.
To realize the full business potential of multiscreen content delivery, service providers, including Telco’s and premium broadcasters, need to come to grips with how to bring content ‘silos’ together. The key is getting the right data and then knowing what to do with it.
The efficient distribution of content, especially video, on the web with the best performance and highest quality of experience requires a large number of servers to be deployed as close as possible to end-users. Consequently, Content Providers (CP) and third-parties have built large networks of content distribution servers, also known as content delivery networks (CDNs).
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Television viewers continue to “cut the cord” to their expensive cable and satellite subscriptions, while moving to adopt OTT services. TV operators need to adapt to these new viewer habits to get and stay ahead of the competition.
The Satellite Interference Reduction Group (SIRG) is still expanding almost two decades after its formation, reflecting the growing challenges it faces in the ever more crowded skies. The latest recruit is TeamCast, a French maker of modulators and demodulators for both Terrestrial DTV transmission and satellite communications.
The needle on the compass pointing to the direction of television broadcasting technical progress is the latest Test & Measurement category of broadcast TV equipment to be introduced and exhibited at the 2016 NAB Show.
The number of vendor specific playout and edit systems continues to increase year on year. Consequently, the different types of media and metadata files required by broadcasters follows suit. The unfortunate result is a complex system that compromises quality through multiple transcoding. All this increases the potential for lost air time because of human error in highly automated playout systems causing unnecessary delays in the programme chain.
Adaptive-bit-rate technology is a boon to multi-channel delivery, in part because of reduced bandwidth requirements. A downside is that ABR signals need specialized testing. Fortunately, specialized test solutions are available to easily and objectively make the needed analysis.
