In this IABM TV interview, Lorenzo Zanni (Head of Insight & Analysis, IABM) and Janne Yli-Äyhö (CTO, Technology & Development at YLE) discuss the latest technology trends and strategies.

As the quality of home theater systems continues to improve, offering the immersive experience from the comfort and convenience of your own sofa, sports stadiums and arenas are feeling the pressure of having to deliver a new kind of experience. Stuart Reynolds, Director of Diversified’s Sports and Live Events specialty, sat down with Daniel Litwin of ProAV Podcast to find out how today’s venues are tackling these challenges and winning back their in-person game day fans with AV dynamics in live events and sports stadiums.

Jason Kornweiss, Vice President and General Manager, Emerging Technology & Solutions, Diversified and Karl Paulsen, Chief Technology Officer, Diversified, joined this episode of the Pro AV podcast to talk about Diversified’s IP roadshow.

Businesses have a lot of moving parts to keep track of with streaming over IP, the cloud, machine learning, you name it. But all of that comes with training, education, hiring, and network infrastructures that pose a challenge for even the largest IT and AV teams.

When you think about the amount of content produced regularly, especially from businesses, it’s unlikely that any of it can work seamlessly without a strong software infrastructure. This is especially true for video, and today, expert Liz Davis, Director of the Media Workflow Group for Diversified, joined us on the podcast to share her perspective on how software enables media workflow.

Today, the media landscape encompasses thousands of modes of communicating information at lightning speeds — from the smartphone to the smartwatch, to interactive adverts on streets and in cities. There are, in fact, so many outlets to disperse information that businesses, companies, and corporations are struggling to stay present with the ever-changing information technologies.

Sound can be a tricky issue at sporting events, and AV professionals must face the challenges of the apparent dichotomy of concert events versus sports venues. On this Pro AV Podcast, two AV veterans from Diversified, Justo Gutierrez and Pete O’Neil, share their perspectives on the special tasks involved in bringing quality sound to sports venues.

The Challenge

The brief for the Media Tech Team was simple: Source and deploy an easy-to-use production timer in the school’s TV studio and gallery.

The solution had to be simple enough for beginners to easily grasp and engage with, coupled with an ability to be flexible enough to do more in the future as the school’s requirements expand and develop.

Over time, the capability of many of the industry’s leading media and metadata management systems and tools has continued to advance, but can they change quickly enough to keep ahead of the new demands? The relentless, almost geometric growth, across the industry, in both the volume of files and complexity of data required for identification and global exploitation, poses a significant performance challenge to all vendors.

This, coupled with the necessity to increase automation and dramatically reduce human intervention at every point in the supply chain, has meant many vendors have had to step back and consider if their products remain “fit for purpose”.

Three Media was no different and performed an intensive ‘bottom up’ analysis of their XEN: product set.

IABM Head of Membership Engagement Lisa Collins quizzes Head of Insight & Analysis Lorenzo Zanni on the IABM Coronavirus Impact Tracker.

This online BaM Summit™ gave actionable insights on trends and opportunities in the MENA region – and also to provide regional members and Broadcast/Media companies with an opportunity to learn about developments elsewhere in the world that may impact the region in the future.

Getting The Job Done: Production Teams During COVID-19 Global Pandemic

As scientists and doctors work around the clock to save lives while global measures to flatten the curve (398,900+ COVID-19 cases to date) continue, such as global lock-downs and travel bans, journalists and production teams are experiencing extremely difficult and unique circumstances surrounding news asset collection and publishing.

For a majority of those working in the media industry, there is a newsroom epicenter in which all digital content is stored and shared via internal servers.

Human Decision Making: When Do We Use Confidence Levels?

Confidence levels can be used anytime one is estimating or predicting something. Examples include: business, engineering, medicine, technology…or just day-to-day life.

As humans we use confidence levels regularly. Whether you decide to dodge an aisle at the grocery store because you thought you saw your chatty neighbor, or using evidence and intuition to convict a suspected criminal during jury duty, your mind is in a constant state of perceiving its surroundings. It makes decisions based on those perceptions via an inherent estimate of confidence.

The Multimodal Approach: Explained

“Our intuition tells us that our senses are separate streams of information. We see with our eyes, hear with our ears, feel with our skin, smell with our nose, taste with our tongue. In actuality, though, the brain uses the imperfect information from each sense to generate a virtual reality that we call consciousness. It’s our brain’s best guess as to what’s out there in the world. But that best guess isn’t always right.” – Dr. David Ludden Ph.D.

On-Hertz strongly believes in the role that radio has to play as a media of proximity to keep people informed, entertained and connected. In the light of ongoing confinement and travel bans policies around the globe, this role increases in importance even more.

In this on demand webcast, IABM and the DPP collaborated to put together a programme of broadcasters, production companies and vendors to respond to the thirst for experience and knowledge regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the media industry.

The Covid-19 pandemic means almost a quarter of the world’s population is on lockdown. Here, IABM Head of Insight and Analysis Lorenzo Zanni looks at some of the effects on the media and broadcast industry.

This course consists of 7 modules, providing a thorough grounding in the principles and standards of Video over IP (Internet Protocol). Starting with the basics of using IP as a replacement for SDI, it goes on to look at RTP (Realtime Transport Protocol) streaming and the fundamentals of IP multicast, and then covers SMPTE ST 2022, SMPTE ST 2110, AES 67, AMWA NMOS, and PTP (IEEE 1588) – the key components of an IP based studio, OB truck or broadcast centre. The standards are dealt with in a way that is both clear and understandable, while at the same time giving the detail needed to be useful in real practical situations.

The course will appeal to anyone with basic knowledge of IP and SDI who wants to gain a good understanding of how IP is transforming the infrastructure of broadcasting and content production.

This webinar, powered by IABM regional research, will look at major developments in the MENA Broadcast and Media market, focusing on the forces driving spending in the region and the most important priorities in the technology agenda.

Is your organization, speaker, host or presenter cancelling attendance at a scheduled event? Is attendance expected to be down this year? Are you grappling with how to service attendees who want to participate but just can’t make it in person?