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With its first live over-the-air broadcast of 4K UHD with high dynamic range (HDR) using the new ATSC 3.0 Candidate Standard, LG Electronics and GatesAir are ushering in the era of next-generation television broadcasting at CES 2016.
The TV industry is undergoing seismic change with the rapid increase in multiscreen viewing to the partial detriment of the big screen and the corresponding arrival of new threats and opportunities. Some of the threats are competitive but others are security related. Some of the latter are specific to TV, such as the rising specter of live stream piracy, while others are more part of a general diversification of the cyber threat landscape, as illustrated by high profile events such as the recent attack on UK broadband and pay TV operator TalkTalk.
Dutch media group, DutchView Infostrada, part of the NEP group since the summer, has announced a successful broadcast of a live, IP-based multi-camera show. Infostrada’s Cloud Production platform is based on SAM Sirius routers, Kahuna switchers and IQ Modular technology.
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A wealth of over-the-top (OTT) media sources makes for a highly competitive marketplace, making it critical that broadcasters differentiate their offerings by ensuring exceptional quality of service (OoS).
Legacy operations like production and playout are gradually moving to the cloud as more systems connect to a facility’s IT backbone. These advances have opened the door to also moving operations-based tasks like QC and QoS monitoring to the cloud.
In a recent survey, we asked a handful of leading media facilities in Europe and North America, among other things, to what extent they agreed with the following two statements: 1. There are too many manual steps in my workflow. 2. There is potential to reduce the number of manual steps through workflow automation. Although there was a little variation between the European and American answers, the trends were largely similar, and the combined result is shown below for the first time.
Now it is the turn of IPTV operators to feel the pinch of cord cutting in the US while their cable competitors are holding firmer against the OTT onslaught. At one time IPTV was seen as the new wave undercutting the legacy satellite and cable operators, but now that it is part of the mainstream operators in this category are equally at threat from cord cutting to a combination of free to air and lower cost subscription VoD services such as Netflix.
Professionals working in live entertainment, sports and news are challenged with capturing, preparing and distributing content in the fastest, most efficient way possible. They also must handle the explosion of new content formats and rising media standards like 4K. Implementing an effective media asset management (MAM) platform that can handle new technologies and benefits the entire production chain has become critical.
