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MovieLabs releases Visual Language for Media Creation

MovieLabs, a technology joint venture of the major Hollywood movie studios, has released a visual language guide and a suite of design elements to help developers and producers create and communicate workflows in a visually consistent way that can be implemented and understood across the industry. Building on the Ontology for Media Creation (OMC), the Visual Language for Media Creation (VLMC) provides robust mechanisms and conventions for human-to-human and machine-to-human illustration of elements in a media workflow. The current lack of a common visual language causes a high level of inconsistency across visual elements […]

September 23, 2021

MovieLabs publishes ontology for media creation 

Motion Pictures Laboratories (MovieLabs), a technology joint venture of the major Hollywood studios, has published the first version of a common ontology for production technologists designing software-defined workflows (SDW) for the M&E industry. The Ontology for Media Creation (OMC) provides a conceptual framework and a set of defined terms to enable both people and software […]

September 16, 2021

Brazil: Città Telecom chooses SmartLabs

SmartLabs, a provider of multi-screen, multi-network solutions for video streaming, has been chosen by Brazilian ISP Città Telecom for OTT provision and mobile applications. The solution will be used by the company’s set top box customers and mobile users. Città Telecom has chosen SmartLabs after extensive technical testing and the installation is set to be […]

September 10, 2021

BT Labs reimagines off-air rebroadcasting with updated Aircaster AQT8 Series

Blonder Tongue Laboratories, a US-based designer and manufacturer of telecommunications, fibre optic, video and data delivery technologies, has unveiled the updated Aircaster AQT8 series of transmodulators – including the Aircaster AQT8-QAM/IP and Aircaster AQT8-IP – a comprehensive and flexible toolset to create custom IP and QAM channel lineups from any ATSC 1.0 off-air or QAM […]

September 1, 2021

castLabs supports Huawei WisePlay DRM

Digital video delivery technologist castLabs is supporting Huawei Technologies’ WisePlay digital rights management (DRM) system to enable streaming services to reach a wider range of devices with secure premium content. WisePlay is now integrated into castLabs’ range of video delivery solutions including the company’s scalable DRMtoday cloud licensing service. DRMtoday helps streaming businesses quickly launch […]

August 26, 2021By Colin Mann

Dolby Labs Q3 revenues up 16.6%

Dolby Labs has published its Q3 financial numbers, declaring revenues for the quarter of $286.8 million (€241.4m), up 16.6 per cent year-on-year. “With the launch of Dolby Atmos on Apple Music and Comcast delivering the Tokyo Olympics in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, more people around the world are enjoying the Dolby experience than ever […]

August 3, 2021By Chris Forrester

Medianet achieves success with SmartLabs multi-screen IPTV provision in Maldives

Medianet, the largest independent cable television provider in Maldives, has chosen SmartLabs to offer a multi-screen, multi-network IPTV streaming solution. The offering has gone live to Medianet’s existing subscribers and has the capacity to support a much higher number of users when tourism returns to its peak following the Coronavirus pandemic, where during its busier […]

July 7, 2021

Channel 4 grabs Youngest Media’s Moneybags

Channel 4 daytime has commissioned a new quiz show Moneybags from Youngest Media, hosted by Craig Charles, where bag loads of cash will be, literally, up for grabs every afternoon. In this high-stakes quiz that puts mental speed to the test, contestants face a series of questions with the answers on moneybags that pass along […]

July 6, 2021

Operators’ ad capabilities empowered with ad placement solution, SmartLabs DAI

SmartLabs, a provider of multi-screen, multi-network solutions for video streaming, unveils its new Dynamic Ad Insertion solution, SmartLabs DAI. With this intelligent and incredibly flexible ad insertion system, operators and broadcasters will be able to add or replace ads with higher accuracy and greater profits. While TV advertising revenue declines and video content viewing audiences […]

May 27, 2021

Kantar’s DiMarco joins Tubular Labs as new CSO

Tubular Labs, the social video content and audience measurement company, has announced the appointment of Stephen DiMarco as Chief Strategy Officer, effective immediately. As the company furthers its efforts to be the de facto ratings service for comparing TV with premium social video, DiMarco will lead product and the execution of Tubular’s go-to-market strategy selling […]

May 13, 2021