In part one, we saw how virtualization is nothing new and that we rely on it to understand and interact with the world. In this second part, we will see how new developments like the cloud and Video Over IP have allowed us to abstract the conceptual parts of a…
As momentum for 5G Broadcast around the world slowly grows, we catch up with progress in the USA with recent and forthcoming trials.
As progress marches us resolutely onwards to a future broadcast infrastructure that will almost certainly include of a lot more software running on cloud-based infrastructure, this seems like a good moment to consider the nature of Virtualization.
OTT operators need heightened awareness of how to manage the threat of piracy. But OTT also offers a promise: with the right legal framework, the available technical solutions could bring video piracy to dramatically lower levels.
Metadata is increasingly used to automate media management, from creation and acquisition to increasingly granular delivery channels and everything in-between. There’s nothing much new about metadata—it predated digital media by decades—but it is poised to become pivotal in broadcast technology’s current phase of rapid evolution.
This is a story about the COO of a media business, that shines a light on the thinking underway at the leading edge of the media industry, where the balance shift from Linear Broadcasting to D2C Streaming is firmly underway.
When government agencies get involved, prepare for new acronyms.
OTT is driving the next great rebundle. After years of D2C streaming, unbundling and fragmentation, we are now reaching a stage where we have so many D2C Apps that consumers are looking for simplicity and convenience again.
When disruptive technologies transform how we do things it can be a shock to the system that feels like sudden and sometimes daunting change – managing that change is a little easier when viewed through the lens of modular, incremental, and controlled evolution.
The appetite for broadcast content over mobile devices has reached several important milestones, providing more opportunities for the latest versions of ATSC and DVB content to be distributed as cellular data without a SIM card or a cellular subscription. The irony is that only a handful of experimental mobile devices…
