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Cloud storage increasingly helps media facilities manage and improve workflows.

Integrating the Cloud into Production Workflows February 16th 2016 - 12:05 PM

Media companies today rely on the cloud for significant elements of their operations. Many small and mid-sized production companies already have implemented the cloud for long-term content storage, and now an increasing number of these companies are migrating production tasks — indeed their end-to-end workflow — to the cloud. Although bandwidth and application challenges remain, the shift is under way and surely will accelerate as bandwidth to the cloud becomes more affordable and as a growing number of vendors rewrite and tailor their applications to allow users to take advantage of the cloud’s unique capabilities.

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Open Control and Monitoring Standard is Now AES70 February 16th 2016 - 10:00 AM

The standards committee for the Audio Engineering Society (AES) has created AES70, a new standard for the open control and monitoring of professional audio and AV media network devices.

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Live sport will benefit most from OTT’s coming of age.

Live Premium OTT is Not Quite There February 15th 2016 - 10:00 AM

Live OTT has been the butt of various recent announcements focusing on security, quality and synchronization with traditional broadcast signals over satellite, digital terrestrial, cable or multicast IPTV. The goal is to enable delivery of premium content including TV shows and news but especially live sports to multiscreen devices at high quality, while minimizing the impact of piracy by illicit stream redistribution.

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AIMS Appoints Board Officers and Working Group Chairs February 12th 2016 - 01:50 PM

The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) has appointed its board and the chairs and deputy chairs for its newly formed marketing and technical working groups.

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IP Video: Its More Than One Thing, And It Needs More Than One Solution. Part 3 February 11th 2016 - 03:30 PM

What does IP Video really mean, why there is such hysteria and where it’s all going? At annual industry trade shows, like IBC and NAB, there is often a single ‘buzzword’ which floats to the top of conversations between vendors, broadcasters and consultants. Over the last year or so, that word has been ‘IP Video’, and with each day that passes, IP Video hysteria grows. In this article we will try to rationalise what IP Video actually means in practice, and ask questions about how it will start to play a role in the day-to-day lives of broadcasters. We will question the ongoing debate around choosing which IP Video protocol is going to become “the standard” and we will conclude that in fact we need more than one protocol to realise the opportunities offered by working with Video in an IP world. Continue reading part 3.

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IP Video: Its More Than One Thing, And It Needs More Than One Solution. Part 2. February 11th 2016 - 02:30 PM

What does IP Video really mean, why there is such hysteria and where it’s all going? At annual industry trade shows, like IBC and NAB, there is often a single ‘buzzword’ which floats to the top of conversations between vendors, broadcasters and consultants. Over the last year or so, that word has been ‘IP Video’, and with each day that passes, IP Video hysteria grows. In this article we will try to rationalise what IP Video actually means in practice, and ask questions about how it will start to play a role in the day-to-day lives of broadcasters. We will question the ongoing debate around choosing which IP Video protocol is going to become “the standard” and we will conclude that in fact we need more than one protocol to realise the opportunities offered by working with Video in an IP world. Continue reading part 2.

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IP Video: Its More Than One Thing, And It Needs More Than One Solution. Part 1. February 11th 2016 - 01:35 PM

What does IP Video really mean, why there is such hysteria and where it’s all going? At annual industry trade shows, like IBC and NAB, there is often a single ‘buzzword’ which floats to the top of conversations between vendors, broadcasters and consultants. Over the last year or so, that word has been ‘IP Video’, and with each day that passes, IP Video hysteria grows. In this article we will try to rationalise what IP Video actually means in practice, and ask questions about how it will start to play a role in the day to day lives of broadcasters. We will question the ongoing debate around choosing which IP Video protocol is going to become “the standard” and we will conclude that in fact we need more than one protocol to realise the opportunities offered by working with Video in an IP world.

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Managing AV equipment can be difficult. Why not simplify it by moving the entire tracking process to the cloud? Image: Princeton Academy.

Applied Technology: Simplifying Equipment Inventory Management February 11th 2016 - 12:05 PM

CHEQROOM is an SaaS cloud-based solution for AV inventory management. The solution lets you manage and track valuable equipment from any device or location via the Internet, enabling sophisticated inventory control.

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