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Core Insights: Agile Adaptive Monitoring For OTT December 16th 2020 - 09:00 AM

​With viewers demanding to watch what they want, where they want, and how they want, it’s not surprising we’re seeing an unprecedented growth in broadcaster OTT requirements. However, the change in delivery format from traditional broadcasting is providing us with some interesting challenges.

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Computer Security: Part 2 - Understanding Why Computers Work The Way They Do December 16th 2020 - 09:00 AM

To see how to make computers secure, we have to go way back to see how they work.

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Digital Audio: Part 6 - Noise Shaping December 15th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Noise shaping performs an important role in digital audio because it allows hardware to be made at lower cost without sacrificing performance, and in some cases allowing a performance improvement.

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Creative Analysis: Part 13 - Cinematographer Stuart Brereton On Baking Christmas December 14th 2020 - 09:00 AM

In the mid 1990s, the north of England was a hotbed of film production, with well-known features such as Brassed Off and The Full Monty all produced within a few years and a few miles of each other. The Northern Media School, then part of Sheffield Hallam University, was literally and figuratively a long way from Los Angeles, but somehow cinematographer Stuart Brereton found a route between the two without ever having intended to.

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A Centralized Streaming Gateway For Live SDI Production And IP Distribution December 7th 2020 - 09:00 AM

In a time of social distancing, video professionals have turned to technology that allows them to work remotely yet collaboratively over a secure Internet connection. This remote production strategy has helped production and postproduction companies as well as video streaming, enabling service providers to set up and automatically distribute files to their desired destinations.

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Adaptive Monitoring Keeps An Eye Out For Quality While Saving Cost December 2nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

As the number of channels for OTT delivery continues to grow, monitoring these channels in a highly automated way has become paramount to ensuring a good Quality of Experience for the viewer. To deliver QoE that’s as good as linear TV broadcasts, the entire system—from ingest to multi-bitrate encoding to delivery to CDN—must be monitored continuously.

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Essential Guide: Protecting Premium Content OTT & VOD Distribution December 1st 2020 - 09:00 AM

The complexity of modern OTT and VOD distribution has increased massively in recent years. The adoption of internet streaming gives viewers unparalleled freedom to consume their favorite live and pre-recorded media when they want, where they want, and how they want. But these opportunities have also presented content owners with unfortunate challenges, typically piracy and overcoming illegal content copying.

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Creative Analysis: Part 12 - Cinematographer Mark Kenfield On Zia November 30th 2020 - 09:00 AM

By sheer count of productions, the Indian film market is possibly the world’s largest for film in terms of admissions. On average, the country’s cinemas see more than 1.5 annual admissions per capita – and with a population of nearly 1.4 billion, that’s a lot of capitas – with more than 1600 features passing before the country’s censors in 2012.

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