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The amount of video coming down the track for carriage over mobile is threatening to break the net unless encoding vendors and compression standards can keep pace. The lesson from a recent IBC panel is that this can happen - provided the industry pays for it.
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The problem with Flash Player is that it is insecure. Mozilla even disabled it for a couple of days in July due to vulnerabilities. The solution is to move to an HTML5-based playout. The transition need not be complex.
Bringing the new UHD television format to market is a herculean project . Not just because multiple companies and products have to be developed, but an entire infrastructure must be designed and put into place. With UHD, that means supporting H.265 and VP9 streaming. Now, Google plans to release VP10, which is twice as efficient as HVEC/VP9.
The seemingly inexorable year on year increase in DVR usage has at last been halted in some major countries by a strong swing towards catch up services direct from the pay TV operator as an alternative for accessing time shifted content. This trend is evident in the US, UK and France, but the situation is complicated by significant differences not just between countries but also platforms and individual operators.
Consumers care less about how content is delivered to their device than about the quality of the experience (QoE) on that device. This means engineers need to rethink how test and measurement tools can best be applied.
Video consumption has changed. Over-the-top (OTT) technologies have made the TV just one screen among many. The new reality has brought multiple new platforms and devices to consumers, which means reaching the masses requires big investments in both video delivery and application development.
A big chunk of the ATSC 3.0 standard — the “physical layer” — has finally graduated to candidate standard status. It’s a major achievement, but there are still many other components of the complex project ahead. As many as twenty components of the complete standard are still in play — scheduled to all be complete in the first quarter of 2017.
The growing ability of CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) to enable live video streaming over the Internet was a major theme at the Content Delivery World 2015 forum in London on October 5-7. Vendors and operators agreed that virtualization of the CDN was essential for scaling high quality OTT services by separating network control from the underlying hardware, avoiding reliance on a specific configuration that might run out of capacity. With virtualization, a given service can call on large reserves of capacity as required to meet peak demand.
