Manage – Page 15
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Industry TrendsIMF for TV: the solution to versioning woes?
When Hollywood finally had its Interoperable Master Format (IMF) standardised by SMPTE back in 2013, there were already murmurings about a possible broadcast version of the format.
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Industry TrendsThe cloud will kill half of us… and save the rest
With 85% of media and broadcast industry buyers planning to deploy cloud technology within the next three years - according to the latest IABM End-User Survey - the pressure is on vendors and technology suppliers to embrace cloud and as-a-service solutions and business models.
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Industry TrendsSmall is beautiful: the increasing importance of microservices
Broadcasters and media organisations’ desire for greater agility to launch new channels and platforms has fuelled demand for pay-by-the-minute services.
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Industry TrendsIP interoperability at NAB: the debate continues
Following the lead of IBC in 2016, the recent NAB exhibition included a demonstration of IP interoperability. Once again, more than 30 vendors showed streams passing seamlessly between different products.
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Industry TrendsEuropean tech firms unite to develop video analysis software
A consortium of European technology firms demonstrated a working prototype of a video analysis system at NAB.
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Industry TrendsSecuring the creative industries from cyberattacks
The devastating cyberattack that hit Sony Pictures Entertainment at the end of 2014 caused some consternation in the upper reaches of the UK government as well as in the boardrooms of companies in the creative industries. Then Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, who had sought to boost the appeal ...
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Industry TrendsMaking a return on IP investments
As the commercial pressures tighten on traditional and new media companies, finance directors want to know that investment will make a business more efficient and successful.
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Industry TrendsMoving production to the cloud
The immediate barriers to unfettered production in the cloud are bandwidth, the compression required to shrink bit rates, transport, discovery and security.
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Industry TrendsThe engineering skills shortage
In November 2014 I organised, on behalf of the IABM Educational Foundation and EBU, a conference in Geneva on the engineering skills shortage facing the electronic media industry.
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Industry TrendsCould JPEG2000 be the future of compression?
Digital video, and the benefit of compression, is so ubiquitous that we no longer think about it, but it is worth considering that every time we process a video signal we are making a compromise.
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Industry TrendsHow to create shareable content for social media
Audience analytics are driving content creators to manipulate content to suit relevant audiences across various social media platforms.
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Industry TrendsDVB approves UHD and HDR spec
Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) has published phase one of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) new video and audio coding specification enhancing future interoperability for UHD TV broadcasters with HDR.
