Do you realize that mysterious computer RAID freezes, crashed applications and dog-slow or aborted offloads can be caused by bad cables? Apple’s Thunderbolt technology is good, but when it comes to the connectors, beware.
OTT services are taking off with increased rates of growth driven by more content, more devices, more subscribers and more advertisers. In the last 12 months alone, OTT has grown to $9-12 billion in global revenues, with $1.9 billion of those revenues coming from emerging markets, according to a report from PWC. Viewers are slowly but steadily cutting the cord on traditional cable services in favor of broadband connections and OTT services, driving a new living room plus mobile experience.
In the era of anytime, anywhere, any device services, media complexity has dramatically increased. Media companies must be sufficiently agile to quickly supply their content to a range of consumer devices—including OTA, tablets, smartphones, web sites and new trends yet defined.
In part 2 of this special feature we contend that MAM as we’ve known it is dead and that today’s broadcaster and content delivery firm want a media logistics solution which encompasses all ingest, production, distribution and archive with rich metadata including rights. If so, are the tools in most MAM’s appropriate at ‘orchestrating’ all of these assets? Here’s Dalet’s Director of Marketing, Ben Davenport.
In this special feature we contend that MAM as we’ve known it is dead and that today’s broadcaster and content delivery firm want a media logistics solution which encompasses all ingest, production, distribution and archive with rich metadata including rights. If so, are the tools in most MAM’s appropriate at ‘orchestrating’ all of these assets? We asked select vendors to comment. First up, here’s Nick Ryan, CTO and Co-Founder, Nativ.
Contribution networks traditionally involved either leased or occasional use dedicated video circuits. The issue with both is the inherent expense, as the video circuit could only be used by a broadcast production, so for most of the time the investment was lying idle.
A seismic shift in the media-consumption landscape means that a growing number of viewers will be looking to enjoy the 2016 Olympics on a variety of devices, in multiple resolutions and all in real time.
Under a FCC experimental broadcast license, Tribune Broadcasting’s WJW-TV is providing a DTV transmitter, tower and 6-MHz channel for ATSC 3.0-related field testing in Cleveland. Field tests of key elements of ATSC 3.0 have been underway since mid-May by a collaboration of LG Electronics, Zenith R&D Lab and GatesAir.
