Cisco has announced that Canal+ has strategically chosen to base its new Content Delivery Network (CDN) on the Cisco NCS 5516 Series platform, using Cisco IOS XR software. Technology disruption within the media market is rapid, with network requirements and expectations changing quickly. End-users are expecting to obtain more and more content with zero delay. […]
Netflix has entered into a multi-year overall deal with Kenny Ortega – a producer, director, and choreographer best known for the High School Musical franchise. Ortega has directed and choreographed a number of international hits including the Descendants trilogy, Newsies, and Hocus Pocus, and choreographed a plethora of classic movies including Dirty Dancing, Ferris Bueller’s […]
MediaKind, a global player in media technology, is expanding its long-term alliance with Inspur Digital Media to help current TV Service providers shift towards cloud-based delivery. By harnessing Inspur Digital Media’s cloud-based virtualised servers and software running on Inspur Digital Media Openstack cloud, MediaKind will provide an economical and scalable end-to-end solution to TV service […]
We may be living through a golden era for content, but it is also the age of big data audience analysis, empowering broadcasters with more information than ever before to make their renewal and cancellation decisions. Ampere’s analysis of renewals and cancellations between September 2018 and March 2019 reveals that the streamers have been the […]
MediaKind, a global media technology player, has announced at NAB that it has partnered with Google Cloud to enable MediaKind’s entire portfolio of solutions to operate on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Effective immediately, MediaKind customers can leverage and benefit from Google Cloud’s ecosystem of solutions and assets such as TensorFlow and BigTable, global networking, best-in-class […]
Eutelsat says that globally there are now 155 Ultra-HD channels or feeds on air, up 24 per cent on the position at March 2018. Michael Chabrol, Eutelsat’s SVP/New TV Formats, using data and analysis from Lyngsat, various UHD Forums and its own research, said that there were now 60 UHD channels being carried by various […]
Friend MTS, the content and revenue protection specialist, has brought premium content level security to Android TV by integrating its ASiD subscriber watermarking with Oregan Networks’ Android TV Operator Tier solution. The ASiD subscriber-level watermarking and monitoring for Android Operator Tier platforms allows service providers to rapidly and cost-effectively identify illegal content redistribution, and revoke […]
Verimatrix, an Inside Secure company, has announced API integration between its Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) Ultra and AWS Elemental MediaConnect. The API integration provides conditional access (CA) and rights management applied between the content ingest and distribution workflows to video service providers. The API integration features VCAS Ultra deployed in the Verimatrix Secure […]
A survey by the Federation for the Protection of Audiovisual Content (Fapav) estimates that there are 2 million illegal pay-TV subscriptions in Italy and 4.6 million viewers. Fapav claims that that few Italians are aware that their illegal subscription, amounting to €10 to €20 per month, is only the end point of a chain managed […]
One of the most iconic events on the golf calendar, the Masters Tournament, will be presented in Norway, Poland and Russia on Discovery’s GOLFTV following a new agreement. The partnership signals the first men’s Major to be available anywhere on GOLFTV, strengthening a portfolio in Norway, Poland and Russia that features many of the sport’s […]