This presentation will explain how dynamic video watermarking technology can help pay-TV operators and content owners fight illegal streaming during live events. During the session, attendees will learn about a next-generation watermarking technology that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning, and employs a unique top-down approach to support both client and contribution use cases, enabling operators to protect content on broadcast, IPTV, and OTT networks. After identifying the source of piracy, the technology takes down the source within seconds.

In this presentation, compression experts V-Nova and the World Health Organisation, will discuss a successful deployment of V-Nova’s compression technology to optimise their inter-site video contribution. Covering everything from the practical implementation and experiences, to how the use of V-Nova’s software has enabled the WHO to increase the quality and volume of live video links between its international locations and helped to accelerate production under these challenging times.

In this talk, the current low latency streaming implementations are reviewed, including LL-DASH, LL-HLS and HESP. A deeper understanding of how they perform for different criteria is explained, such as latency, bandwidth, zapping time, scalability, etc., as well as identifying the strengths, limitations and best practices.

OTT is gaining significant ground as an alternative to traditional delivery platforms as more consumers turn to a plethora of devices to satisfy their appetites for entertainment, news and sports. Broadcasters find themselves seeking reliable and effective monitoring methods to ensure their delivery is pristine, they’re competitive, and viewers remain engaged. This presentation explores all aspects from the basics to the challenges, discussing the technologies and workflows of probing and monitoring for OTT services.

Steve Russell, Head of Media Management & OTT Portfolio at Red Bee and Eva Thunell, Founder of Shortly, talk about how Shortly uses the Red Bee OTT services to create a distribution platform that enables short filmmakers and film festivals get their services in front of consumers around the world, starting with the origins of Shortly, their goals and how to launch an OTT service in partnership with Red Bee.

Introducing Promethean TV’s Donation Overlay Templates for driving donations directly from video streams without disrupting messages. Ideal for Houses of Worship, the new Donation Overlays connect digital congregations and encourage generosity while streaming LIVE or showcasing VOD content. Users can easily customise their Donation Overlay appearance, editing the layout and appearance to suit branding and colours. Take a look at Promethean TV’s step by step instructions to discover how to drive charitable donations from your video streams.

Recent industry developments have introduced solutions which enable the leap to an all IP facility at any scale, without the need to deploy a bespoke enterprise solution and get caught up in all the configuration, consultation and potentially large expense that that involves. During this session, technical leaders from Pebble Beach Systems discuss effective solutions and theories that put effective IP connection management solutions within your grasp.

nxtedition interviews system integrator Broadcast Solutions UK on consolidating ‘appliance’ based streaming contribution products and creating a unified remote contribution, production and distribution solution. Simplifying the streaming workflow allows the focus to be firmly upon the storytelling rather than the underlying technology.

The session can look at how broadcasters and content owners must comply fully with distribution rights and local regulations to unlock a deeper understanding of their audiences’ needs. It can also look at how broadcasters and operators can drive smarter methods of advertising management and delivery to open up new monetisation opportunities.

This session will explore how 5G offers data rate increases both upstream and downstream, as well as the ability to manage data on the 5G connections in a more sophisticated manner than ever before.

During this session we will discuss how to use AI content tagging to optimize video services content catalogue, making it easily searchable, and their content discoverable
We will speak about New AI-driven Content Search and Discovery Strategies and how we are successfully applying them in an innovation project for the National Spanish Broadcaster RTVE.

The question is how to bring efficient, intelligent and sustainable solutions to video delivery that can sustain the increasing demand for both quantity and quality of video content, while reaching Net Zero. iSIZE provides fast and low complexity precoding with significant bitrate savings, providing a high quality of experience with next generation sustainable results and up to a 4-fold (400%) reduction in the energy required by a video encoder.”

NMOS is the great simplifier to building IP production facilities based on SMPTE 2110 infrastructure. So join Imagine’s IP Standards Guru John Mailhot for a quick skill-up on these hardworking specifications that could save you weeks of heavy lifting on your IP deployment.

This presentation will look at the different techniques that can be deployed without changing the infrastructure, which is especially relevant during the pandemic because network equipment cannot easily be upgraded. The session will examine how Content-Aware Encoding benefits emergency situations, as proven by seamless deployments during COVID-19.

Pirate attacks on watermarking technologies are ever-evolving, tend to exploit their weakest points and attempt to re-engineer and break their structure. To be effective against piracy, it is essential that watermarking is highly robust against all attempts at tampering, as well as more sophisticated collusion and image processing attacks. In this presentation, we will review and analyze watermarking technologies and known real-world attacks on them.

As SVOD providers continue to multiply, users are increasingly required to navigate numerous apps on multiple devices in order to access what they’re looking for. How did TV platform Freesat tackle this problem to stay relevant with its new 4K ready set top boxes and provide a seamless, joined up viewing experience? And how, with the prospect of IP channels on the horizon, will Freesat continue to keep a ‘streaming savvy’ audience engaged?

Blockchain provides a solution for MVPDs and OTT providers to address these challenges, ultimately delivering a superior, personalized experience for customers while maintaining their privacy. In this presentation, Rob Koch, Global Head of Media & Entertainment Solution Practice, EPAM, will share how providers can leverage blockchain to communicate transparently and directly—without compromising personally identifiable information—to ensure customers can easily access their desired content and receive personalized recommendations.

This talk will discuss evolving areas of emphasis for today’s premium video content owners, novel approaches to manage and publish video, and the implementation of a next-generation video supply chain. Specifically, it will discuss the latest innovations in managing and delivering ultra-low latency, programmable media assets that enable personalization (ads, content, channels, and more) at scale.

This presentation will be dedicated to AVC encoding. AVC, also known as H.264, proved to be one of the most efficient and popular standards. We will share our 32-year experience in encoding and reveal secrets of the configuring encoder settings in the best way.

Learn how to facilitate work routines, improve troubleshooting system, reduce churn and make your audience happier! The speaker will dive into the analytical data and explain how to interpret it. The presentation will show the indicators of problems in encoder, descrambling module, CDN, modulator, packetizer. Equip the engineering team with powerful knowledge that will help to be proactive when it comes to error prevention and fixation in efficient systems of OTT content delivery.