The media industry is in the midst of a wholesale move toward streaming, first in the entertainment sector and now in sports. Over the next 10 years, more than 50% of audiovisual revenue will come from over-the-top (OTT) services. According to Strategy Analytics, OTT revenues will surpass pay TV for the first time in 2024. Much of the momentum over the next decade will come from live, and in particular sports, with rights holders expanding on current DTC experimentation by placing more of their properties online and by traditional pay-TV like Sky and Comcast substituting satellite and cable with leaner fitter faster IP delivery.
Edge cloud service provider, Zenlayer, has been accepted into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners that run on or integrate with AWS. This will allow Zenlayer and AWS to collaboratively provide customers with enhanced connectivity to cloud services on a global scale.
EFS, FLOW, and AirFLOW and Adobe integrations support workflow demands and enable new client service offerings.
The Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) is reporting good progress on using the Networked Media Open Specification (NMOS) protocol developed by the group to precisely identify, control and manage devices on an IP network in a highly automated way.
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At IBC 2021 Calrec will show a range of solutions that focus on remote working, virtualization, remote production and IP.
Gravity Media in Australia required a centralised high-performance storage system to act as the hub for their media workflow on the Olympics and selected a solution from Digistor.
Scality says it is offering three SmartStore-ready architectures spanning single-site to multi-site models for disaster recovery of Splunk’s data analytics.
The finite speed of light, and indeed of all communication has various impacts on broadcasting.
