OTT Fragmentation Gives Hope to Legacy Operators June 3^rd 2019 - 09:00 AM

Increasing OTT fragmentation is creating a new and perhaps last opportunity for traditional pay TV operators to seize back some control from major online service providers by re-aggregating online content under common UIs and recommendation engines.

BEIT Paper Track: Recommendations for Professional Media Networking (PMN) March 28^th 2019 - 01:00 PM

The speed and reliability of the internet has made it possible for broadcasters to use it as a cost-effective low-latency contribution link. A Monday afternoon BEIT session will explain what’s being done to make the internet perform best for broadcasters.

Don’t Let Your OTT Success Turn You Into A Data Exfiltration Victim March 6^th 2019 - 10:00 AM

Imagine you are a creative person with technical skills and limited moral constraints. Now imagine you get the opportunity to steal the series finale for Game of Thrones weeks before the episode is broadcast or streamed. That would be worth a lot, wouldn’t it?

Users Resist Tighter Pay TV Security February 1^st 2019 - 10:00 AM

Video consumers are still reluctant to embrace more secure authentication methods than traditional passwords despite mounting fears over identity theft and intrusion into privacy.

Gigabit Broadband Set to Accelerate on Back of Fiber Roll Out January 8^th 2019 - 11:00 AM

Gigabit broadband growth is set to confound most predictions and increase almost 10-fold in penetration to reach over 31% of households on average globally over the next five years, compared with 3% to 4% today.

A Guide to Large File Transfer Software November 15^th 2018 - 10:00 AM

From production to newsgathering and on to international distribution, the media industry relies more on the ability to quickly and easily transfer large files over long distances. Original methods for doing this, like FTP, are unsuited for today’s large file sizes and complex workflows - what is needed is…

The Proven Essentials to Ensure an Effective UI August 14^th 2018 - 01:00 PM

Innovation in the media and entertainment industry is at an all-time high with devices, backend technologies, operating systems and consumer behaviors constantly evolving. A key element of this evolution is how viewers see, experience, navigate and consume the content they want. Which is why delivering an effective user interface (UI)…

What’s The Future For Middleware? August 10^th 2018 - 11:00 AM

There are many more curators of solutions in the pay-TV market now that there is a move to an all IP infrastructure away from traditional broadcast. Aside from voice, the underlying technologies in pay-TV remain the same as they have for some years i.e. Linux, JavaScript, HTML5, SQL databases…

EBU Warns Of Cybersecurity Threats From IT Technologies In Broadcast Domain May 11^th 2018 - 01:00 PM

Broadcasters are becoming exposed to new cybersecurity threats as they move workflows increasingly into the IT domain, warns the EBU (European Broadcasting Union). Some of them may be unprepared and assume that their traditional content protection mechanisms based on Conditional Access and DRM technologies are still sufficient to cover their…

To Curb Piracy Content Has To Be Available Cheap And Early December 15^th 2017 - 10:00 AM

The widely held belief that SVOD (subscription VOD) services reduce piracy by making premium content readily available via a legal route has been challenged by an experiment conducted by a group of US and Portuguese academics.