Appear has been chosen by Orange Slovakia to support a new centralised operational model for its Video Assisted Referee (VAR) content delivery. The project supports Orange Slovakia’s live coverage of the Slovak First Football League, enabling the Slovak Football Association to move from on-site to a more efficient centralised VAR operation.
As IT and broadcast infrastructures become ever more complex, the need to securely exchange data is becoming more challenging. NATS messaging is designed to simplify collaboration between often diverse software applications.
Here we describe how metadata facilitates your asset workflow and distribution. It keeps track of your products in the archives so they can be re-purposed and monetized later.
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 systems, as well as detection and takedown.
NMOS has succeeded in providing interoperability between media devices on IP infrastructures, and there are provisions within the specifications to help maintain system security.
Sports are the early adopters of Interactive Rights due to the special nature of their content and the viewer and brand engagement that sporting events create. While there are some visible implementation obstacles to overcome to achieve the vision of a new converged entertainment experience using Interactive Rights (see Part 2 in this series), sports bodies such as ATP Media, who manage the media rights of the ATP Tour, are backing the vision.
Automation seems like an obvious solution but effective conversion involves understanding what the image content is and therefore what the priorities are for how it should look.
Maintaining controlled access is critical for any secure network, especially when working with high-value media in broadcast environments.
