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.
Why doesn’t everything “just work together”? And how much better would it be if it did? This is an in-depth look at the issues around why production and broadcast systems typically don’t work together and how we can change that. If we do, there are untold benefits.
The decision by Brazil’s SBTVD Forum to recommend ATSC 3.0 as the physical layer of its TV 3.0 standard after field testing is a particular blow to Japan’s ISDB-T, because that was the incumbent digital terrestrial platform in the country. China’s DTMB and 5G Broadcast were dismissed at the lab…
France Télévisions was the standout video service performer at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, with a collection of technical deployments that secured the EBU’s Excellence in Media Award for innovations enabled by application of cloud-based IP production.
In this article we discuss the philosophy of hybrid systems, where assets, software and compute resource are located across on-prem, cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
Broadcasters and video service providers are looking at AI to police the regulatory and ethical problems it has created, as well as bear down on some longer standing challenges. The latter include ensuring that content developed in one country complies with regulations in others.
People often say that AI is just a tool. But it’s not. That’s a fundamental mistake and likely to be wrong by several orders of magnitude.
