Semantically enhanced smart data, combined with analytics, can provide powerful business marketing tools for video distributors according to Spideo. In its white paper, “How Smart is your Data? the video recommendation engine provider explores several areas in which semantically enhanced smart data opens up new business opportunities and demonstrates the impact recommendation engines have on user experiences.
In September 2015, Hibernia Networks launched the first trans-Atlantic submarine cable since 2003. The new Hibernia Express cable is the first system optimized for low latency. This article focuses on the latency proposition of the new cable system.
Media needs to be found, edited and delivered and each stage of the process presents its own issues. Ideally, editors need to be able to search, browse, select and bring media into edit, without copying, transcoding or re-wrapping. However, at the moment, not every edit system is able to handle every flavour of media. This situation is getting worse as new capture formats frequently appear.
This article is Part 2 of Gary Olson’s series on digital terminology. As promised, this article continues the explanation of the next series of terms that engineers, technicians and technical managers need to understand.
On demand TV is the core business. There is now a need to drive down the cost of producing and distributing content in a cross-platform way and to address emerging business models for monetising content. It is a reality of the media landscape today that supplier relationships, logistics networks, product design and customer service all live in a state of permanent flux. Hence, sustainable competitive advantage requires a high degree of operational adaptability. This in turn requires a new breed of technologies.
In Part 1 of this series on preserving taped resources and moving them to an archive, we reviewed the typical problems that may be encountered and the tools needed to resolve them. With those identified, let’s see how it is possible to automate the process to ensure maximum throughput and quality.
Ultra HD data rates get astronomical for uncompressed formats. Moving to IP, we look at building cost effective and sustainable infrastructure.
The broadcast industry is once again going through both business and technology changes. At the heart of these changes is the need to move to IP-based infrastructure. There are many different codecs and standards being proposed but one that is key to this transition is H.264/AVC. It’s a good fit for end-to-end IP workflows because it provides a full spectrum of video quality and resolutions including support for low to high bitrates, proxy to 4K or even 8K, Intra or GOP formats, 8- and 10–bit depth and 4:2:0 to 4:4:4 colour sampling. It is widely used in broadcast and A/V so interoperability and compatibility are no longer concerns.
