Applied Technology: Subtitling of Streaming Programs November 12^th 2014 - 01:20 AM

Equal access legislation in the UK, US and other countries has led to widespread captions and subtitles for broadcast services. However, despite the efforts of a number of lobbying groups, availability of captions on video-on-demand services, including those streamed via the internet, have been slow to take off. This article

Applied Technology: AdStore – Bridging the Gap Between Linear and Non-Linear Advertising Models November 10^th 2014 - 08:50 PM

Broadcasters and content owners tend to look at the world of television and advertising as divided into linear and non-linear. The two models do have much in common; content, monetization, tracking, and invoicing, for example. However, there are clear differences between broadcast and targeted-delivery models; the use of indirect versus

Applied Technology: Smarter Workflows for Multi-platform Delivery November 10^th 2014 - 07:55 PM

With the advent of rapidly changing consumer viewing habits and literally billions of portable devices accessible around the world, media companies are being challenged like never before to meet the demand or be left behind. Expanding a content provider’s reach is what all the fuss is about. The primary t

The Anatomy of the IP Network, Part 2 November 10^th 2014 - 02:00 PM

This is the second in the series and here we will begin to get into a more granular discussion of the IP addresses and network transmission protocols. It is important to understand the different transmission and addressing protocols as devices, applications and systems each have specific requirements based on their

Imagine Communications Acquires OpenTV’s Advanced Advertising Business Unit November 7^th 2014 - 09:20 AM

Acquisition of OpenTV’s Advertising Business Unit Sets Up Imagine Communication’s Future for New Video Media. The recent announcement that Imagine Communication has acquired the advanced advertising business unit of OpenTV from the Kudelski Group has significant implications for the future of pay media as it migrates to the Int

Brightcove transcoding helped EVS show multiview camera angles November 6^th 2014 - 01:36 PM

Cloud video platform vendor Brightcove has just revealed in a blog how its Zencoder cloud-based encoding service was used by EVS during the 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil.

OTT live is the next frontier for content security November 6^th 2014 - 11:47 AM

Forensic watermarking is the key to combating OTT stream piracy. Anyone who has attended a seminar on video security over the last year cannot fail to have noticed that content redistribution over the Internet is set to overtake traditional control word sharing as the biggest single piracy threat to premium

Applied Technology: Understanding the Return on Investment of Media Asset Management Systems November 6^th 2014 - 11:30 AM

Media Asset Management (MAM) systems are revolutionizing the way media enterprises manage and optimize their content life cycles by delivering revenue, efficiency, and creative gains, yet understanding how to financially justify new projects remains a challenge for many organizations.