After some trials of varying success, European broadcasters are most interested in exploiting 5G Broadcast as part of their hybrid offerings with hopes of reaching mobile devices. The key missing ingredient is support by the major device makers.
Simultaneous broadcast of real-time data to an unlimited number of one-way receivers and locations is the unique catalyst of the amazing potential of the Broadcast Internet. EdgeBeam Wireless is a new market offering from a group of TV broadcasters seeking to leverage ATSC 3 to deliver such a national datacasting service.
AI and machine learning are bringing new tools to combat TV and stream piracy, but at the same time blunting the effectiveness of some established ones such as forensic watermarking. More than ever the scourge of piracy must be combated on multiple fronts including awareness, legal, and disruption to payment…
Advances in application motion tracking in audiovisual production, both live and recorded, have been slow until recently accelerated by the advent of modern AI techniques associated with neural network based deep learning and mathematical graph theory. These advances have converged from multiple application domains including robotics, medical imaging, sports science…
As we head into another new year it seems ok to indulge in some obvious speculation about what the future may bring. Here we consider the proposition that eventually, and probably not far into the future, broadcasters will have to deal with immersiveness. Why is this likely, and how should…
There are many reasons why companies are transitioning from legacy video distribution workflows to ones hosted entirely in the public cloud, but it’s not a simple process and takes an enormous amount of planning. Many potential pitfalls can be avoided with intelligent network design directly in the cloud. Here a…
We can now capture video in much higher resolutions than we can transmit, distribute and display. But should we?
TV makers have adopted different approaches to the OS, some developing their own, while others adopt a platform such as Google TV or Amazon Fire TV. But all rely increasingly on the OS for competitive differentiation of the UI, navigation, and in some cases for reaching out to other devices…
Many broadcasters have been revising their streaming strategies with some significant differences, especially between Europe with its stronger tilt towards the internet and North America where ATSC 3.0 is designed to sustain hybrid broadcast/broadband delivery.
Tassilo Raesig became CEO at MainStreaming this year straight from being CEO of the German Streaming Service Joyn (part of ProSieben). We sat down with him to discuss his unique perspectives on the state of the streaming industry from the board rooms of both streamer and vendor.
