All IBC2024 articles
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VideoNew solutions for virtual production
Leading technology suppliers presented the latest solutions for virtual production at IBC2024 in Amsterdam.
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VideoUnited Media Services, Egypt: Reconfiguring an established media ecosystem by embracing disruptive innovation
One of the largest media conglomerates in the Arabic region, United Media Services (UMS) will discuss its strategy to embrace disruptive new and emerging technologies to drive vital new approaches to the evolution of media, serving audiences with trusted, compelling, highly entertaining and innovative media services.
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VideoDelivering NHL content over 5G networks: “Everyone has the same goal at NHL - to grow the game”
Sharing how much delivery has sped up thanks to 5G networks, Grant Nodine SVP Technology at NHL and Tim Stevens from Verizon said use cases are exploding as the tech becomes faster and more and more impressive.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Nerf based 3D generative video conferencing system
This paper introduces a generative 3D video conferencing system using pre-trained Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) models for high-fidelity 3D head reconstruction and real-time rendering.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: VVglTF: Efficient Streaming of Volumetric Video with glTF
This paper discusses the benefits of VVglTF.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Content Steering: A Standard for Multi-CDN Streaming
This paper reviews the history of this standard’s creation, explains its operation principles, and discusses its various features, utilities, and benefits.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Advancements in Radiance Field Techniques for Volumetric Video Generation: A Technical Overview
This paper offers a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art volumetric video methods based on neural radiance fields, including their respective advantages and drawbacks.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Project Timbre: How well do mobile networks work for live audio streaming?
The paper focuses on assessing the real-world quality of experience and investigates how this correlates with existing definitions of mobile coverage, which may be more general in nature.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Content Distribution at Mega concurrency Scale
This paper explores architectural strategies, resources allocation guidelines and cloud-native workflows that are time-tested to support mega-scale live streams and examines common failure scenarios and anti-patterns, identifies infrastructure bottlenecks and proposes fallback strategies to enhance resilience and reliability at massive concurrency scales.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Interoperable provenance authentication of broadcast media using open standards-based metadata, watermarking and cryptography
This paper analyses the posting of broadcast news content to a social media platform, the role of open standards, the interplay of cryptographic metadata and watermarks when validating provenance, and likely success and failure scenarios.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Media Provenance – signing your content in practice
This paper summarises findings from public trials that assess the impact of content credentials on audience trust in news media.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Live Production using the Audio Definition Model at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023
This paper discusses workflows and processes to produce, distribute and deliver Next Generation Audio (NGA) experiences in live production scenarios.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: AI for audio description: A natural voice for accessibility
This study describes the development and implementation of an AI-based natural voice synthesis and automated mixing workflow for audio description (AD) in Brazilian television drama content, with a real demonstration case of success.
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Daily NewsSony’s 4K camcorder duo on track for AI
At IBC, Sony has introduced two 4K handheld professional camcorders with AI-based subject recognition autofocus, tracking, and auto framing. The HXR-NX800 NXCAM and PXW-Z200 XDCAM have 1in CMOS sensors, a new 20x optical zoom lens, variable neutral-density (ND) filters, and assignable lens rings.
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Daily NewsThinkAnalytics suggests FAST way to monetise content
The ability to automatically generate and schedule FAST channels is a key focus for ThinkAnalytics this year, as service providers continue to seek way to monetise their content.
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Daily NewsGlobal M offers a SDVN bridge across two worlds
Users can experience new cloud orchestration capabilities for software-defined contribution and distribution, claims GlobalM for its advanced IP gateway technology.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Smart introduction of 5G Broadcast in co-existence with legacy broadcast systems
In this paper, we analyze how 5G Broadcast can be introduced and deployed while coexisting in the same UHF channel with several other legacy broadcast radio technologies, including ATSC 3.0, DVB-T2 and ISDB-T
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NewsPLAZAMEDIA and MR Factory form Virtual Production partnership
Leading sports TV producer in the German-speaking region PLAZAMEDIA GmbH has partnered with the renowned Madrid-based MR Factory to drive developments in virtual production. The partnership was announced at IBC2024 in Amsterdam, with the aim to open the market for virtual production in German-speaking regions and beyond.
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VideoBridging AI and User Experience: Practical Tips for Editors
Content recommendation and user experience personalization powered by AI offers numerous benefits, but they also raise concerns, particularly regarding editorial control. In this session we discuss how the complex world of content promotion, application structure, personalisation and targeting needs to find a balance between automation, configuration and AI based technologies.
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Industry TrendsFAST fills the gap for Virgin Media O2
FAST has proved an attractive – if challenging – way of filling a key gap left by basic cable channels in Virgin Media O2’s line-up, according to David Bouchier, chief TV and entertainment officer, Virgin Media O2.
