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Eros Now chooses Verizon Media Platform

Verizon Media has announced that Eros Now, the South Asian OTT entertainment platform, is using the Verizon Media Platform to meet global consumer demand for high quality streaming of Indian cinema. Global demand for Bollywood content is growing rapidly and Eros Now has attracted over 177 million users to its service by housing over 12,000 […]

December 20, 2019

Synamedia: “Cross-service TV bundles centre stage in 2020”

Jean-Marc Racine, Chief Product Officer, Synamedia has offered his 2020 industry predictions, forecasting that new ecosystems and partnerships will boost the demand for linear TV addressable advertising, and that cross-service TV bundles will become more commonplace. Racine’s predictions are: Bundling – The cross-service TV bundle will move centre stage as the perceived wisdom that cord […]

December 18, 2019

MovieLabs sets out cloud production security principles

Movie industry non-profit technology research lab Motion Pictures Laboratories (MovieLabs), together with member studios, has published a new white paper – The Evolution of Production Security – Securing the 10-Year Vision for the Evolution of Media Creation – that lays out security principles for the future of production where all assets will be stored in […]

December 10, 2019By Colin Mann

Sony, Verizon, NBC 5G sports production demo

Sony Imaging Products & Solutions, Sony Mobile Communications and multiplay telco Verizon have teamed up with NBC Sports to test how 5G can change the way live sports broadcasts are captured and produced. During the Houston Texans vs New England Patriots American Football game at NRG Stadium on December 1st, 2019, a camera person from […]

December 9, 2019By Colin Mann

CSG powers AMC Theatres On Demand

Customer engagement solutions specialist CSG has confirmed that its Ascendon Media and Entertainment software-as-a-service (SaaS), cloud-based solution is powering AMC Theatres’ new digital movie service, AMC Theatres On Demand, supporting the overall customer experience for its users. AMC Theatres recently announced the new service, which gives members of its AMC Stubs loyalty programme the ability […]

December 4, 2019

AWS Elemental MediaLive offers Statmux

Statistical Multiplexing (Statmux) is now available with AWS Elemental MediaLive. Statmux is a technology used in live broadcast workflows that allocates bits in real time among multiple live video channels. It instantaneously adjusts the bitrate of each channel in the statmux pool to make the best use of total available bandwidth and combines the encoded […]

November 27, 2019

Frame.io raises $50m in Series C financing

Frame.io, a video review and collaboration platform used by over one million filmmakers and media professionals, has raised a $50 million (€45.4m) Series C round to help support its next big push into cloud-enabled motion picture workflows. Frame.io said it will also use this round of financing to continue its deep investment into airtight security, […]

November 26, 2019

Australia: Network 10 selects AWS Media Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) an Amazon company, has announced that Network 10, one of Australia’s largest TV networks, has selected AWS Media Services to support its video transport structure for remote production in South Africa for its upcoming season of the reality TV series I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, and to enhance […]

November 19, 2019

Testronic achieves Dolby Vision Certification

Testronic, a specialist in quality assurance (QA), localisation services, and compliance for the film, television and games industries, has achieved Dolby Vision Certification following a period of training and investment in their Burbank facility. Dolby Vision certification ensures that all of Testronic’s Master QC personnel have been trained by Dolby and that the facility has […]

November 13, 2019

Discovery selects Synamedia to support cloud transition

Synamedia, the independent video software provider, has announced that Discovery has chosen its virtualised Digital Content Manager (DCM) from its video network portfolio to increase operational efficiencies for its Asia Pacific distribution. A long-time Synamedia PowerVu customer, Discovery is centralising its Asia Pacific uplink compression systems to its Sterling ,Virginia broadcast center. The company is […]

October 22, 2019