The media industry is in the midst of a wholesale move toward streaming, first in the entertainment sector and now in sports. Over the next 10 years, more than 50% of audiovisual revenue will come from over-the-top (OTT) services. According to Strategy Analytics, OTT revenues will surpass pay TV for the first time in 2024. Much of the momentum over the next decade will come from live, and in particular sports, with rights holders expanding on current DTC experimentation by placing more of their properties online and by traditional pay-TV like Sky and Comcast substituting satellite and cable with leaner fitter faster IP delivery.
The finite speed of light, and indeed of all communication has various impacts on broadcasting.
Legacy broadcast systems using SDI are well understood and reliable but inflexible, based as they are on dedicated routing switchers, video monitors and ingest hardware. That inflexibility extends to the difficulty in adding additional editing, media asset management or playout capability – more routing, more hardware.
The recursive filter has the advantage of using less hardware, but is more complex to understand.
Live TV production may not be the best fit for perfectionists who can’t recognize ‘good enough’ and move on. Live TV has no patience, no second chances and can never be late. Every live shot is a first impression.
Despite Zoom fatigue, one thing that can be said for some of the more recent online industry gatherings is that they are bringing people together in a highly focused and some say more productive way. After nearly two years of such virtual conferences, organizers have learned what works for attendees and what does not. Attendees themselves have also learned what programs work best for them and what don’t.
TAG Video Systems takes advantage of over 70,000 globally deployed probing points to give users the ability to dive deep into streaming content monitoring. The company anticipates more than 100,000 probing point deployments by the end of 2021.
In the last article in this series, we looked at why integrated monitoring is a necessity in modern broadcast IP workflows. In this article, we dig deeper to understand what is new in IP monitoring and how this integrates with traditional workflows.
