We’re exploring how to give broadcasters what they need to be able to use 5G effectively. This includes developing a roadmap of how we get to full network slicing, what sort of integrated services and wrap-around service-level agreements and support is required.
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Covid-19 changed the way we live, study and work. It’s been an enormous adjustment with more questions than solutions, especially in the video world. This session addresses the advantages of an IP infrastructure when remote operation becomes a necessity. Learn how to control a mosaic/Multiviewer system from anywhere, discover specifics such as how to see alarms remotely, aggregate logs from different systems, empower multiple users, operating an API, and assess the cloud and its reliability.
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Many parts of the broadcast workflow, e.g. playout and transcoding, have successfully migrated into the cloud, but migration of live production into the cloud is happening more slowly. Broadcasters seeking revenue from international distribution of live events need live standards conversion in a fully cloud-based workflow. This presentation outlines the practical and technical challenges of reinventing standards conversion as a live cloud-based service, and discusses the readiness of various technologies as appropriate to the required solution.
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Virtual Week Cloud & VirtualizationPractical and operational issues of playout in the cloudJames Gilbert, CEO & Co-FounderSPEAKER BIOJames Gilbert is CEO and co-founder of Pixel Power a Rohde & Schwartz company, a media entertainment technology provider for master control, channel branding and both traditional and IP-based broadcast playout. He is an active member of SMPTE, IET and RTS and past chairman of the board of IABM. Since launching the company in 1987, Gilbert has served in many roles from principal architect of the original graphics equipment through to IP technology engineering. He also serves as chief business development officer where his engineering background provides an excellent basis for him to act as the key interface between customers and product development, ensuring that he remains closely involved in the technical specification process. This unique combination of experience makes him an industry authority on television branding, graphics and media delivery solutions, how these integrate with the evolving technologies and serve as the public personality of a broadcast television channel’s business.Broadcasters of all types and in all regions are considering the viability of cloud playout, either in a primary role or for business-continuity/disaster-recovery and short-term channels. The advantages are clear: a close link between...
Content Owners are increasingly moving their video workflows to the cloud. In this powerful and highly-scalable environment, how can organizations protect their revenue as their assets move through cloud-based production and distribution processes?
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In this IAM TV interview, Chris White (Operations Director, Friend MTS) discusses some of the piracy trends he is currently seeing as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
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IABM Principal Analyst Riikka Koponen talks to Gary Schneider, Lead architect for live systems, venues and studios, Linkedin about the challenges they are facing along with the opportunities for Linkedin in today’s fast changing business.
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Today’s consumers have an insatiable appetite for high-quality, on demand content. This hunger to watch what they want, when they want, and how they want, has fueled an explosion in new streaming services; the “Streaming Wars”.
Now, in addition to the well-known players Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime, major studios and tech-giants such as Warner Media, Disney, NBC Universal, and Apple have all launched (or will launch) their own streaming platforms. As of March 2019, it’s estimated there were more than 300 over-the-top (OTT) video options in the US alone.
That number only continues to grow.
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