The Battle To Beat Content Piracy July 26^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

OTT operators need heightened awareness of how to manage the threat of piracy. But OTT also offers a promise: with the right legal framework, the available technical solutions could bring video piracy to dramatically lower levels.

The Meaning Of Metadata July 17^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

Metadata is increasingly used to automate media management, from creation and acquisition to increasingly granular delivery channels and everything in-between. There’s nothing much new about metadata—it predated digital media by decades—but it is poised to become pivotal in broadcast technology’s current phase of rapid evolution.

The Future Of Sports Media & Fan Engagement July 12^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

This is a story about the COO of a media business, that shines a light on the thinking underway at the leading edge of the media industry, where the balance shift from Linear Broadcasting to D2C Streaming is firmly underway.

The Streaming Tsunami: The Necessary Evolution Of The TV (From A Broadcaster Perspective) - Part 3 July 3^rd 2024 - 09:25 AM

Here we conclude our discussion of the immense challenges presented by an ecosystem of end user devices that is already at 13K + devices and growing continually.

FEMA Experimenting At IPAWS TSSF July 1^st 2024 - 09:30 AM

When government agencies get involved, prepare for new acronyms.

(Re)bundling Is Coming – OTT Is Retransforming The Media Industry June 28^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

OTT is driving the next great rebundle. After years of D2C streaming, unbundling and fragmentation, we are now reaching a stage where we have so many D2C Apps that consumers are looking for simplicity and convenience again.

Managing Paradigm Change June 26^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

When disruptive technologies transform how we do things it can be a shock to the system that feels like sudden and sometimes daunting change – managing that change is a little easier when viewed through the lens of modular, incremental, and controlled evolution.

BEITC 24 Report: Worldwide 5G TV Update June 17^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

The appetite for broadcast content over mobile devices has reached several important milestones, providing more opportunities for the latest versions of ATSC and DVB content to be distributed as cellular data without a SIM card or a cellular subscription. The irony is that only a handful of experimental mobile devices…

The Streaming Tsunami: The Necessary Evolution Of The TV (From A Broadcaster Perspective) - Part 2 June 12^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

The first part of this article described how Streamers, especially national Public Service Broadcasters, must grapple with the TV landscape to deliver Streaming services that fully satisfy the viewers while simultaneously making an efficient investment in technology. Netflix has set the gold standard. As Streaming scales up and broadcasters shift…

Video Quality: Part 4 - Video Quality Focus On Generative AI June 10^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

We continue our mini-series about Video Quality, with a discussion of how Generative AI is making a growing impact on all aspects of video quality, from basic upscaling and image enhancement, to improving the value of search, as well as generating clips and original content in full ultra HD.