BCE Going Deeper - Part 1 - Cable, Standards and ITIL October 19^th 2017 - 12:30 PM

At the start of 2013, BCE at RTL City was a hole in Luxembourg’s ground and in less than four years they were on air broadcasting 35 different channels across Europe and Singapore. Costas Colombus is BCE’s Special Projects Manager and gave The Broadcast Bridge a unique insight into how the…

MicroServices Bring New Agility And Cost Savings To IP-Based Content Delivery October 18^th 2017 - 09:00 AM

Broadcast equipment suppliers continue to add new types of IT-centric functionality to their signal distribution and playout platforms, leveraging the cost and operational benefits of COTS hardware and Software Defined Networks (SDN) as a way to attract new types of customers that increasingly require the handing of hundreds or thousands…

Broadcasters Must Embrace Mobile Strongly or Die October 13^th 2017 - 01:50 PM

The biggest challenge facing broadcasters is how to embrace mobile phones at both ends of the content spectrum, for creation and viewing, rather than rushing headlong into immersive TV for the big screen.

KT Skylife Picks Alticast Ambient TV for Turnkey OTT October 12^th 2017 - 01:00 PM

KT Skylife, South Korea’s largest satellite broadcaster, has chosen the Alticast Ambient TV platform as the platform for Telebee, its end-to-end turnkey OTT service.

Understanding IP Networks - Plug And Play October 5^th 2017 - 04:00 PM

Differing approaches to providing audio solutions are emerging in the broadcast world. Audio over IP is a given, but where to start and which vendors to choose are proving tough decisions to make, especially as the hardware investment can have a ten-year life expectancy. And moving from an analogue, MADI…

Preventing the Next Big Live-Streaming Failure October 2^nd 2017 - 09:00 AM

If there’s one thing that became very apparent during the Mayweather-McGregor pay-per-view experience, it’s that delivering live streaming premium events to large-scale audiences is inherently difficult. And notoriously unpredictable.

Adobe Tracks Mobile vs. TV Connected Device Usage September 26^th 2017 - 04:00 PM

Adobe’s TV Everywhere study shows that people are increasingly watching home television on TV Connected Devices (TVCD) as opposed to mobile devices. Mobile viewing is actually losing ground to TVCD viewing, say researchers.

EBU Teams Up With Digital Production Partnership Over Mastering and Security September 14^th 2017 - 11:00 AM

The EBU (European Broadcasting Union) has struck a partnership with the Digital Production Partnership Ltd (DPP), a UK based business change network, to promote open standards for interoperability between all components of the video cycle as the industry continues its march towards all-IP based workflows. The two bodies are parading…

Field Report: Maximizing the Technology You Already Have September 12^th 2017 - 08:00 AM

Time is money and with M2Film, a full-service film production company based in Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark, the time required to transfer files between facilities was getting expensive. A faster way to move large files between locations was needed.

Cloud Broadcasting - Integration and Security - SSL Certificates September 11^th 2017 - 11:00 AM

In the last article on Cloud Broadcasting we looked at integration and how we communicate with SaaS and cloud services in the absence of GPI’s and serial connections. In this article, we introduce secure server access and issues around security.