Red Bee’s Richard Kydd discusses the future of television playout, finding the right tech stack, and the fundamental importance of reliability, cost and delivery.
Broadcasters globally are rethinking how they originate, manage and distribute linear video. Years of incremental shifts, such as HD to UHD and SDI to file‐based workflows, have paved the way for a new paradigm: software‐defined, IP‐native, hybrid-cloud playout...
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