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It is far too soon to write off the desktop as a major online video platform as it still accounts for twice as much viewing as tablets for long form content and four times more than smartphones, according to Adobe’s Digital Index (ADI).
IPTV is set for further substantial subscriber growth on the back of ongoing broadband roll out and increased capacity across most markets, according to several recent forecasts.
The media industry is rapidly adopting file-based workflows in all stages of the content lifecycle including transcoding, repurposing, delivery, etc. Additional complexities could be introduced during media transformations, which if not handled properly, could lead to issues in video perceived by the end consumer.The issues are due to errors caused by media capturing devices, encoding/transcoding devices, editing operations, pre- or post-processing operations, etc. A significant majority of video issues nowadays are due to the loss or alteration in coded or uncoded video information, resulting in the distortion of the spatial and/or temporal characteristics of the video. These distortions in turn manifest themselves as video artefacts, termed hereafter as video dropouts. Detection of such video quality (VQ) issues in the form of dropouts are gaining importance in the workflow quality checking and monitoring space, where the goal is to ensure content integrity, conformance to encoding standards, meta-data fields and most importantly, the perceived quality of the video that is ultimately delivered. This end video quality can certainly be measured and verified using manual checking processes, as was traditionally the case. However, such manual monitoring can be tedious, inconsistent, subjective, and difficult to scale in a media farm.
Automated video quality detection methods are gaining traction……..
This paper discusses various kinds of video dropouts, the source of these errors, and the challenges encountered in detection of these errors.
New broadcast transmitter benchmarks set at NAB 2015.
The Switch is a U.S. based media operator offering local metro and long distance video transport services in major cities across the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Canada, to broadcast networks, production houses and major sports leagues. Among the various video transport services available to customers The Switch offers local on-demand connectivity, which has become a great success due to the company’s on-demand service model and easy, customer-controlled provisioning. The service was previously used by various media companies to connect internally between different geo- graphical sites and also to connect externally with companies offering complementary services, such as post-production houses. The success of The Switch’s metro service gave rise to the next logical step – to interconnect the isolated, local metro services and roll this out to more cities all over the country.
After NAB 2015, The Broadcast Bridge’s Frank Beacham talked with Devoncroft president Joe Zaller about current trends in the media and broadcast industry.
Arris says binge viewing is a solo activity and that WiFi is viewed as a utility by consumers. The company shared early headlines from its sixth Consumer Entertainment Index at the Video Leadership Forum, an event it ran in Dublin.
Traditional pay TV providers are struggling to cope with the rapid growth of OTT TV services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. This increased competition is forcing them to consider unbundling their packages to create competitive, stripped down offerings without the costly premium sports channels.
