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 historical AI collaboration across multiple FOX Sports properties and programming— the first of its kind for the broadcaster. Beginning with the 2018 FIFA World Cup, […]
Orange Belgium is expanding its convergent offering with an evolution of its video features. This also broadens the scope for Zappware, Orange Belgium’s Digital TV Technology partner, who developed the multiscreen video platform. Orange Belgium is continuously investing to enrich its Love offering, to support its convergent positioning and growth. The video service is a […]
Insight from IHS Markit identifies how the media management industry is moving to services-based business model, focusing on faster and cheaper workflow. Highlights of the report include: In the media management market, migration from selling equipment-based solutions to service-based solutions is deploying massively this year. Nearly two-thirds (62 per cent) of global revenue was service-based, […]
Akamai Technologies, the cloud delivery platform, has announced significant enhancements that are designed to improve website, app, and network security without compromising the performance of digital applications. With these additions, Akamai says its cloud delivery platform is architected to serve as a crucial foundation for digital business, with security and agile deployment capabilities supporting digital […]
As content owners and distributors continue to address consumer demand for premium content, Interoperable Master Format (IMF) is becoming an increasingly popular exchange format for 4K and HDR assets. While this format has helped OTT providers and pay TV operators reduce costs and complexity associated with distributing premium content, pirates have also evolved their piracy […]
Ericsson Media Solutions has launched its MediaFirst End-to-End Ultra High Definition (UHD) solution, suggesting it is the industry’s first software-based, multi-application media processing and encoding platform to deliver UHD content from camera to consumer, across the entire media delivery landscape. Noting Ericsson ConsumerLab TV and Media research which highlights how TVs with higher picture quality […]
Media and communications technologist Ericsson has been selected by global multiplay telco Telefónica to power a range of advanced TV services across its operating businesses in Latin America. The solution will be rolled out in 13 countries and will be available in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru by the end of 2017, with eight […]
The EBU, in close collaboration with network equipment vendors ATEME and NEVION, has updated its royalty-free and interoperable stream protection standard (BISS) with a conditional access extension, BISS-CA, which enables real-time entitlement management for content streams over any network. The BISS-CA mode (EBU Tech3292s1) is based on state-of-the-art symmetric AES and asymmetric RSA cryptography and […]
Ooyala has unveiled the Ooyala Flex Media Platform, an open and extensible video production and delivery platform that simplifies and streamlines the process of managing, curating, orchestrating, publishing, analysing, and monetising video content. This content supply chain optimization platform, which leverages Ooyala’s experience serving customers with cloud-based solutions, minimises the cost and complexity of content […]
Verimatrix, a specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for network-connected devices and services, is now serving the business intelligence (BI) market segment with the latest developments to its Verspective Analytics solution suite. Verspective Intelligence marks significant enhancements for video service providers to maximise their network performance and optimise subscriber experience in order to further monetise […]