Traditional broadcasters risk a continued loss of young viewers to the new crop of OTT competitors if they don’t embrace video streaming—both live and on-demand—in a “whole-hearted and ambitious way.” That’s the opinion of Scott Puopolo, CEO Telestream, a company that offers transcoding and streaming technology to a wide variety of content delivery customers.
The recent launch of Apple’s TV Plus service bulked up with original TV shows costing $6 billion to produce has disrupted global attempts to unify streaming behind a common set of protocols for encoding, packaging, storing and playing back video delivered over the internet.
This past summer the NBA did a little experimenting using 5G and mobile phones to cover their summer league. This is not User Generated Content (UGC) by any means. It also was not an off the shelf deployment of 5G and demonstration of its capability.
Swisscom’s upgraded TV service is a bold play to seize control of the digital home and repel invasion from the big tech players with the help of an in-house developed voice assistant.
Cyber security impacts everyone and every industry. One unifying comment from cyber security experts is the bad guys are mostly winning. The good guys are fighting the good fight and we each need to do our part. One of the more challenging aspects of cyber security is cyber policy, governance, guidelines and training. I call this “good cyber hygiene”.
Edgeware, a Swedish provider of content preparation, unicast CDN and streaming technology, is collaborating globally over sales and technology with French vendor of multicast ABR and LTE Broadcast media streaming products.
