Harmonic has announced that M6 Group, operator of multiple TV channels in France, will upgrade its ingest, playout and storage infrastructure to a media-over-IP solution from Harmonic. Offering support for the SMPTE ST 2110 suite of standards for delivery over IP networks and SMPTE 2022-7 for seamless protection switching, Harmonic’s playout and storage solutions will […]
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 since the formation of the Trusted Partner Network (TPN), which was launched in April 2018 in a joint venture with the Content Delivery and Security […]
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 successful year of integration as TVT Media has also revealed that it now delivers 99 channels via its private broadcast cloud. Since acquiring DMC from […]
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 tactic for combatting the piracy of online video content. The document – Forensic Watermarking Implementation Considerations for Streaming Media – was developed by the Alliance’s […]
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 partner, Boxer Systems, worked closely with BT TV to specify, install and configure the system. At BT TV’s London-based technical headquarters, Vantage is being used […]
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 Chain Alliance. The Alliance is designed to improve cooperation among DEG, EMA and MovieLabs members in service of improved efficiency, standards adoption and the sharing […]
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 AWS’s machine learning and data analytics services to accelerate its cloud transformation. Formula 1 will work with AWS to enhance its race strategies, data tracking […]
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 at the heart of sport. Delivering a keynote address at the Love Broadcasting Summit in London, Hindhaugh noted BT’s previous initiatives in sports coverage, such […]
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 around the world championship, building its digital fan base to more than 22 million. “MotoGP is the oldest motorsport world championship but its digital strategy […]
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 Society’s ongoing work to provide insight into the critical issues that are transforming the media and entertainment (M&E) technology industry. The survey examined artificial intelligence […]