MPAA updates content security best practices
As part of its dynamic improvement efforts, US movie industry trade body the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has announced the first update of its Content Security Best Practices…
TVT, DMC now TVT Media
One year after its acquisition of Amsterdam-based DMC (Digital Media Centre), Global content services provider TVT has announced that the two entities have become TVT Media. The news caps a…
Forensic watermarking boost for online piracy battle
The Streaming Video Alliance (the Alliance), an industry forum solving challenges to improve the video experience, has published a technical document that provides considerations for implementing forensic watermarking as a…
BT TV adopts Telestream’s Vantage
BT has adopted Telestream’s Vantage media processing platform. This move creates a high-speed multiscreen media processing solution with automated quality assurance to better serve BT TV customers. Telestream’s local channel…
Content groups form Digital Supply Chain Alliance
Content bodies DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) and MovieLabs have marked the beginning of a new, closer alignment through the formation of the Digital Supply…
AWS F1 data boost
Amazon Web Services has confirmed that motor sport’s premier single-seater category Formula One is moving the vast majority of its infrastructure from on-premises data centres to AWS, and standardising on…
BT Sport: Object-based delivery ‘next big thing’
Jamie Hindhaugh, COO of BT Sport, has suggested that object-based delivery will be the next major initiative as the broadcaster continues to innovate in its goal of putting the customer…
MotoGP delivers new fan-first content
Motor cycle racing’s premier category MotoGP is seeing its partnership with cloud-based video specialist Grabyo pay off as it uses social video and live streaming to grow the global community…
SMPTE: Broadcasters betting on emerging technologies
Entertainment technology standards body SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) has released the results of the SMPTE 2018 Innovation and Technology in Media Entertainment Survey, part of the…
IBM, FOX Sports AI technology team-up
As fans around the world get ready to head to Russia for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, US broadcaster FOX Sports and IBM are launching what they describe as a…