Samsung Electronics and Amazon Video are introducing HDR10+, an updated open standard that leverages dynamic metadata to produce enhanced contrast and colours on an expanded range of televisions. According to the pair, HDR10+ elevates the HDR10 open standard with the addition of Dynamic Tone Mapping. The current HDR10 standard utilises static metadata that does not […]
Research released by Kantar Media warns that, if the advertising industry doesn’t find a way to measure performance accurately and consistently, Proctor & Gamble’s threat to pull spend from digital advertising will be just the tip of the iceberg. Dimension, a new international study
Over half (51.2 per cent) of DTT users in Germany have already switched to the new DVB-T2 standard since its launch on March 29th, according to a survey by TNS Infratest for streaming TV provider Zattoo. Some 17 per cent switched to a different method of TV reception already used elsewhere in their home, and […]
Bitmovin, an encoding, player and analytics provider and co-creator of the MPEG-DASH video streaming standard, has joined the Alliance for Open Media. The Alliance for Open Media is a non-profit organisation working to define and develop media technologies that address the need for an open standard for video compression and delivery over the web. As […]
UK broadcast industry professional media network Digital Production Partnership (DPP) has released the first ever assessment of where broadcasters, producers and suppliers can expect to see the greatest return on investment from committing to IP-based production. The DPP Survey Report: The Business Benefits of IP Production is the result of extensive research with companies from […]
IABM has announced that the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) has been endorsed as an Industry Collaborative Group (ICG) under IABM’s ICG Endorsement Programme. DPP joins AIMS, MOS Development Group, SMPTE and Video Services Forum in meeting strict collaborative criteria to achieve endorsement, including; beneficial to the industry; non-discriminatory membership policy; open, standards-based approach; non-profit; and […]
Describing it as “a huge milestone”, Netflix has confirmed in its Tech Blog that users of Firefox can now also enjoy Netflix on Linux. The move is part of the streaming service’s plans, announced some four years ago, to play premium video in HTML5, replacing Silverlight and eliminating the extra step of installing and updating […]
The Asociación Española de Televisión Digital Interactiva (AEDETI) and the HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, are pleased to announce that the Spanish Digital TV Tech Forum (Foro Técnico de la Televisión Digital) has adopted the […]
Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group have revealed they plan to establish a consortium that will “promote spectrum aggregation, innovation and monetisation and enhance their abilities to compete in the wireless data transmission sector.” The consortium, which will be jointly owned and controlled equally by Nexstar and Sinclair, has agreed to collaborate on a […]
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), its global arm, the International Society of Broadband Experts (ISBE), and the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) have announced a new SCTE/ISBE Standards operational practice that is designed to ensure interoperability between MoCA 2.0 and the cable telecommunications industry’s new DOCSIS 3.1 specification for advanced broadband services. SCTE […]