RIST and SRT overview: what to choose and why
New times place new demands in terms of data transfer speeds and delivery reliability, while the amount of content being transferred keeps growing.
Setting the Stage for NextGen TV
Between the current pandemic and the 2020 election season, the broadcast industry has had a lot to talk about besides ATSC 3.0. Deployments were slowed somewhat by COVID-19, but the pace has begun to pick up again.
In Conversation with Skyline & MYTV
In this IABM TV panel session, Naveendran Murthy (APAC Sales Manager, Skyline Communications) & Mazlan Mahdi (CEO, MYTV)discuss the recent project where MYTV utilised Dataminer at the start of the Malaysian DVB-T2 network deployment.
MEA Media Technology Demand Drivers
We examine specific trends driving broadcast and media technology spending in Middle East and Africa.
The trends we discuss are:
- Transition to Digital Broadcasting
- Transition to HD and UHD
- OTT and Multi-Platform Delivery
Middle East & Africa – Business Opportunities
This article is from The IABM Business Intelligence Digest from December 2017. The full report can be viewed here We examine specific trends driving broadcast and media technology spending in Middle East and Africa. The trends we discuss are: - Transition to Digital Broadcasting - Transition to HD and UHD - OTT and Multi-Platform Delivery The transition to digital broadcasting is a government-led initiative that has encountered many problems in the Middle East and Africa. The transitions to HD, UHD and multi-platform delivery are instead natural evolutions of broadcasters’ infrastructures. Transition to Digital Broadcasting The transition to digital broadcasting in the Middle East and Africa is still underway as only a few countries have completed it. In the Middle East, these are Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, while in Africa only Morocco, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda and Tanzania have completed the transition to digital broadcasting. Despite the global deadline set by the International Telecommunications Union, of June 17 2015 to cease analog transmissions, the transition has been sluggish. The chart below shows a detailed map of the transition status of countries to DTT in the Middle East and Africa. [caption id="attachment_63114" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Source: ITU[/caption] As in the case of...
Latin America – Business Opportunities
This article is from The IABM Business Intelligence Digest from April 2018. The full report can be viewed here We examine specific trends driving broadcast and media technology spending in Latin America. The trends we discuss are: - Transition to Digital Broadcasting - Transition to HD and UHD - OTT and Multi-Platform Delivery The transition to digital broadcasting is a government-led initiative that has encountered many problems in Latin America. The transitions to HD, UHD and multi-platform delivery are instead natural evolutions of broadcasters’ infrastructures. Transition to Digital Broadcasting The transition to digital broadcasting has only been completed in Mexico, with several countries ongoing. The digital switchover is a lengthy process especially when the region is at different stages of the transition – countries that are ahead with the digital switchover cannot easily re-allocate digital frequencies for mobile use while neighboring nations still use these for broadcasting. The switchover also requires coordination between different parties (government, broadcasters, suppliers, customers) to ensure the smooth transition between analog switch-off and digital switch-over, whilst maintaining efficiency and minimizing issues. This can make it difficult to implement effectively and achieve tight deadlines, especially as each country deals with its own individual economic and political...
Transition to DVB-T2
This article is from The IABM Business Intelligence Digest from September 2018. The full report can be viewed here DVB-T2 is the next-generation terrestrial transmission standard, offering 50% more efficiency compared to other DTT systems and supporting SD, HD, UHD, mobile TV, radio, or any combination thereof. HD services consume more bandwidth than traditional services due to higher image and sound definition. The transition to DVB-T2 allows an increase in the capacity of DTT platforms. The transition from DVB-T to DVB-T2 has already been completed in some European countries such as the UK, Italy, Finland and Sweden with other countries planning the switchover over the next few years. [caption id="attachment_62592" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Source: Dataxis[/caption] At the end of 2017, Dataxis published a survey according to which, by 2022, 72% of European households will receive DTT using the DVB-T2 standard. In 2017, 12 countries were still using two standards in parallel. According to Dataxis, by 2022, 8 countries could still be in this situation. The decision to roll out DVB-T2 depends on broadcasters’ plans in some countries. For example in Belgium, the Flemish-speaking public broadcaster VRT has decided to terminate the DVB-T broadcast of its three main channels in December 2018...
Regional Focus: Middle East & Africa
The MEA region is made up of diverse countries with strong cultural and religious values present in everyday business and economic activities.
EU Industry Update
The broadcast landscape in Europe is extremely varied, from both a cultural and a technological perspective. From a cultural perspective, European viewers show different programming tastes and language preferences. From a technological perspective, different countries have different broadcast infrastructures.
Successful interoperability test session with Rohde & Schwarz and TeamCast
TeamCast, the world-renowned leader in digital modulation technologies for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), Wireless Transmission and Satellite Applications, and Rohde & Schwarz, a leader of broadcasting test and measurement solutions, have successfully completed a DVB-CID interoperability test session between the DVB-CID generator embedded in the R&S BTC Broadcast Test Center and the TeamCast DVB-CID Receiver. Munich, December 19, 2016 – As for every new standard introduced on the market, different interpretations of the mathematical specification can be made. As no interoperability test session was organised so far by the DVB group, the two companies decided to run such tests on their own. "So far, we made several interoperability test sessions with different modulator manufacturers and different satellite monitoring equipment providers with a full success. However as the R&S BTC is one of the first reference test tool on the market, it was important for us to organize this test session. Now we can claim that TeamCast's satellite transmission products (the VYPER Modulator and the DVB-CID Receiver Demodulator) are fully compliant with the ETSI 103 129 DVB-CID standard", says Philippe Hostiou, Satellite Product Line Manager at TeamCast. As a leading supplier of broadcast T&M solutions, Rohde & Schwarz attaches great importance...
