Another fall, another IBC. Its’ that time of year when we find out if the promises made at NAB are kept, new promises are made and we see if there are real differences between U.S. and the rest of the world regarding technology philosophy and direction.

FOX Sports provided the world wide English telecast of the 2018 FIFA World Cup games, but their Watson super computer built your own highlight reels just for you.

A PR executive asked me this week, “… is streaming is considered broadcast…?” At first I was taken aback at getting such a question from an industry person. My response was “You bet!” I then asked myself, why that would even be a question.

The EBU (European Broadcasting Union) has published a guide to help members understand Augmented Reality and the associated opportunities for developing more immersive content.

As each week goes by more vendors are telling the broadcast industry that they have an AI solution. Apart from trying to work through the marketing hype and understanding what AI and machine learning (ML) really are, how do AI/ML vendors truly differentiate themselves from each other?

Terms such as the immersive experience seem to be prevalent in today’s media landscape. But what does this mean, and will broadcasters be able to meet the challenge?

Release of the AV1 codec from the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) in March 2018 was supposed to mark the start of a heated battle with the H.265 (HEVC) codec for supremacy in the converging world of video entertainment, but for the time being they are more likely to coexist relatively peacefully in parallel universes.

Cloud video encoding and workflows is growing by almost every measure. To quantify such changes, Encoding.com, completed and just released a survey, which provides a snapshot of the media's use of cloud processing.

Of all the newer delivery technologies, 5G is likely to offer the strongest competition to the world’s free, over-the-air (OTA) broadcast model. Planned 5G services may offer multiple content streams, 4K, support for new video standards, mobile reception and on multiple devices. Here is how I think the new ATSC 3.0 standard stacks up against this competitor.

Now that AV1 has entered the market, it’s a perfect time to review the future of video streaming. With Apple joining the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) in January 2018, practically all major tech leaders are on board and AV1 looks to be in good shape for becoming a widespread standard in the near future.

But let’s not sign the death warrant for HEVC so hastily. HEVC is delivering on its promise of halving bitrates and quality pictures while AV1 is barely out of the lab. The gloves may be off, so this article weighs the benefits and the negatives of HEVC and its ‘royalty free’ alternative before the bell rings for round 1.