DutchView Infostrada, part of the NEP worldwide network since June this year, has launched Cloud Production, an IP-based video production platform. It was used to produce Dutch TV show Carlo’s TV Café broadcast on RTL4, a first live broadcast to be televised using cloud-based technology. This was quickly followed by Voetbal Inside broadcast on RTL7.
Professionals working in live entertainment, sports and news are challenged with capturing, preparing and distributing content in the fastest, most efficient way possible. They also must handle the explosion of new content formats and rising media standards like 4K. Implementing an effective media asset management (MAM) platform that can handle new technologies and benefits the entire production chain has become critical.
Television broadcasters worldwide are finally migrating away from proprietary, hardware-based workflows and towards all-IT, software-based production environments, and for good reason. Running on commodity hardware, software solutions are the key to new workflow efficiencies, reduced OPEX and CAPEX, less dependence on specialized technical staff, and the flexibility to deliver more powerful and scalable production environments.
Europe’s TV standards body DVB has taken a further step towards Ultra HD TV (UHD) commercial deployment by approving UHD-1 Phase 2 at a recent meeting of its Steering Board. This second phase of the UHD commercial requirements adds support for HDR (High Dynamic Range) and Higher Frame Rate (HFR).
Security concerns dominate the discussion of adoption of cloud infrastructure in the Broadcast, Media and Entertainment space. The picture of a petulant executive declaring “I am not putting my content in the cloud!” stops many technical managers from a true investigation of the benefits and drawbacks for extending operations into cloud services.
In this Part 2 of the series, the author reviews best practices and tools needed to measure consumer’s QoE.
It is all very well being able to quantify the volume of a signal, however, what is important is how loud it is perceived to be.
Europe needs a unified approach to regulating hybrid mobile services combining satellite and ground based components, according to a recent white paper from satellite fleet owner and services provider EchoStar. The key issue is wide variation between some European Union (EU) member states over licensing regimes covering the complementary ground component (CGC) operating in the same frequencies as S-band Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) within common hybrid services.
