Vendors Highlight Industrial Scale Of Video Piracy At Virtual IBC 2020 September 24^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Synamedia has stood out as the vendor making the biggest splash over content protection and video piracy around IBC 2020, even though the event was confined to virtual channels.

Illegal Piracy Subscription Services Worth Over $1 Billion In US August 20^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Illegal piracy subscription services are now worth over $1 billion a year in the US alone, according to a study conducted by the Digital Citizens Alliance in conjunction with NAGRA, the content security arm of the Swiss Kudelski group.

Broadcasters Hit By Sharp Rise In Credentials Stuffing Attacks July 27^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Broadcasters and video service providers have become ever more attractive targets of credential stuffing attacks for cyber criminals seeking both content and subscribers’ personal details.

Android TV Gains Ground Around Asia June 23^rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

Taiwan Broadband Communications (TBC), one of the country’s leading cable TV operators, is the latest recruit in the region for Android TV, following deployments of the platform at Kbro in the same country, as well as KT Skylife and CJ Hello in South Korea. There have also been recent d…

Broadcasters Fail To Address Common Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities March 19^th 2020 - 01:00 PM

Broadcasters are falling prey to common cybersecurity vulnerabilities as some struggle to adjust to the migration away from traditional dedicated systems to generic infrastructures based on the IP protocol, more like enterprises in other sectors.

BT Sport Fights Back Against Stream Piracy With BISS-CA Protocol February 7^th 2020 - 10:00 AM

BT has joined a growing list of premium sports broadcasters deploying the BISS-CA protocol to combat the proliferating piracy that threatens to derail business models in the sector.

Video Piracy Declines In EU December 18^th 2019 - 09:00 AM

Media content piracy declined by an average 15% across Europe during 2018 according to the European Union (EU) Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), contradicting the popular notion that the problem is getting out of hand in the streaming era.

Comcast Accuses Google Of Abusing Privacy Regulations To Block Ad Competitors October 16^th 2019 - 09:00 AM

A case brewing in the USA between Comcast’s video advert division FreeWheel and Google could have major ramifications for the future of video advertising as it converges with online.

Al Jazeera Claims To Have Found Saudi Source Of beoutQ Piracy Operation October 10^th 2019 - 10:00 AM

The claim by Qatar’s Al Jazeera news channel to have found the source in Saudi Arabia of the TV piracy group beoutQ has resonated around the world of pay TV and premium sports content.

Low Latency Streaming, Cybersecurity and RDK Major at ANGA COM June 20^th 2019 - 10:00 AM

Although nominally dedicated to cable, ANGA COM also illuminates trends common to the whole pay TV industry and in the 2019 event just gone, there was a strong focus on cybersecurity security and low latency streaming. The other major theme with more of a cable focus was the resurgence of RDK…

The Sponsors Perspective: Notre Dame’s IP-Based Campus Crossroads Project October 20^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Here, we take a look at the landmark installation at the University of Notre Dame that highlights one of the biggest advantages of IP-based systems - flexibility. In the past networks have required a lot of cables and interconnections, today, a single cable can deliver every signal to any endpoint…

ViacomCBS Pluto TV Launches In Spain As AVoD Momentum Grows October 16^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

The ViacomCBS Pluto TV AvoD (Advertising VoD) service has launched in Spain, increasing its European orbit to five countries.

The Sponsors Perspective: Manage Standardized Connections For Essences/Network Flows - ST2110/AES67 October 13^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

With the release of the core parts of the SMPTE ST 2110 suite, the confusion around different transport standards for audio and video over IP is settled. However, the adoption of these solutions for day-to-day use is still far from easy. While there are more and more pure IP facilities and…

Live Video Drives Verizon Towards 5G Edge Computing With AWS Wavelength October 8^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Performance and low latency demands of live video are helping drive leading mobile operators to deploy edge computing within their cellular and particularly emerging 5G infrastructures.

The Sponsors Perspective: The Paths To Streaming Distribution - A Tale Of Two OTT Use Cases October 6^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

The consumer video market is growing fiercely competitive between content creators and content aggregators and OTT live and OTT VOD formats are growing increasingly fragmented. Consumers are benefiting from the tremendous choice of content and sources for that content while their tolerance for a negative Quality of Experience (QoE) continues…

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