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Three steps to curbing video piracy
The digital revolution that has and continues to flourish globally has led to a rise in consumer expectations. Access to their favourite movies, TV...
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Explaining the value in dynamic ad insertion
Dynamic ad insertion has transformed the way broadcasters monetise OTT content, especially where live simulcast is concerned. Paul Davies, manager of communications
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DTG remains at the Summit
Had Alice Cooper sat through the DTG Summit on ‘re-engineering for tomorrow’s TV consumer’, he would surely have spotted the potential for re-versioning his...
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Transforming video delivery
In the early days of digital television some 20 years ago, the only way to encode and multiplex it involved dedicated hardware because standard...
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The future of sport
This is the summer of sport. It has kicked, smashed and sprinted past the competition in the ratings. The ritual of gathering around a...
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The challenges of subtitling cricket
The performance of live subtitling is physical, a vocal exercise like public speaking or singing. If you possess the required aptitudes - essentially, you...
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Maximising the ROI from media technology investment
For many next generation projects, the most challenging issue by far is establishing the total return on investment (ROI), and agreeing how to monitor...
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Video killed the radio star, will Netflix kill the broadcaster?
Rumour has it the BBC is in early-stage talks with rivals, including ITV, about launching a Netflix-style subscription streaming service. The move comes at...
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Will the IoT change how we watch TV?
There has been much discussion of late about the imminent arrival of a new class of internet citizen - the Things. The Internet of...
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Bringing down the paywall
UKTV’s move of Home to Freeview recognises the growth opportunities of free-to-air (FTA). Arqiva’s Mike Finchen, director of digital terrestrial television, considers the
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OTT video services: Four questions to consider
With a third of UK broadband households now subscribing to at least one internet-delivered TV service, streaming services are growing steadily. The rise of...
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TV 2030: What’s the long-term future of television?
Fifteen years ago, changes in TV were largely driven by broadcasters. They told people what they wanted, and they wanted it. Today consumers are...
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Content discovery: The importance of going global
Just how important is ’being global’? Of course, generating scale economies and gathering international insights is important, but in media, does having a global...
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Surrounded by sports
It’s been documented in books, TV shows, and Hollywood movies, and it is a prominent aspect of cultures past and present. Our abundant enthusiasm...
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Providers get personal with dynamic ad insertion
With most broadcasters now offering ever more advanced live streaming services, it is clear that such platforms are here to stay. For many, the...
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Content storage and delivery: Solving infrastructure issues
Unlike standard enterprises, whether you are providing hybrid storage solutions or distributing applications, videos, or images, or creating a networked DVR infrastructure to
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MAM Leaders Series Blog: Viljar Mee, ERR
The TVBEurope MAM Leaders’ Series, in association with Avid, is an exclusive thought leadership initiative comprising a series of roundtables, interviews and regular blogs
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Project Uno: how collaboration is reshaping the TV industry
Television has undergone the biggest of transformations, from black and white to colour, from analogue to digital and now to content everywhere via multiscreen....
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Return to OZ: streaming media and the new creative class
During the Golden Age of Hollywood from the late 1920s to the early 1960s, the ‘Big Five’ motion picture studios hired creative professionals under...
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Virtual reality: A new creative medium?
K7 Media projects director Phil Birchenall searches for the meaning of ‘life’ in virtual reality
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Optimising the streaming media experience with IP Intelligence
By 2019, global subscriptions to over the top (OTT) TV services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime will reach 333 million and ad spend...
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Brightcove: IBC predictions
Brightcove’s Luke Gaydon takes us through his predictions of the future trends and topics are likely to be top of mind at this year’s...
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Making the switch from baseband to IP
The future of broadcasting is in IP. But how can broadcasters make a smooth and cost effective transition without disrupting workflows?
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The evolution of entertainment discovery
Rapid changes in the way that consumers view content means that operators must rethink the way that content is discovered
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How will Project Dovetail transform the broadcast industry?
With BARB (Broadcaster’s Audience Research Board) announcing that they will be publishing their TV Player report this September, what particularly interests us at TVPlayer...
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AMC and Cineplex surrender to cinema’s phoenix moment
At the end of 2014, Sony released the film The Interview simultaneously both digitally and in a select range of movie theatres. I observed...
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How does the UK compare to the worst in the world for piracy?
Ah, those Australians… considered the “worst in the world for piracy,” particularly video content. So much so, that the country passed a law in...
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No, the world isn’t ending for the cable and satellite industry
The cable and satellite industry is in flux at the moment. Streaming video platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Now TV continue to...
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The moving picture of the broadcast industry
We all know change is happening fast, but a quick look back at the history of UK broadcasting shows just how rapidly the pace...
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Why is digital critical to sales success at MIPCOM?
A great idea can make or break a successful TV programme. For producers and distributors that stumble on a workable product, the rewards of...
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MAM Leaders’ Series blog: Bartosz Paprocki, Telewizja Polsat sp. z o.o
Measuring the return on MAM investment, by Bartosz Paprocki, CTO, Telewizja Polsat SA
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NAB 2015: What can we expect?
Steve Plunkett, chief technology officer, Red Bee Media, shares his thoughts on the topics being discussed at this year’s NAB in Las Vegas.
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Live events are the holy grail
Gavin Mann, global broadcast lead at Accenture, examines the current state of the broadcast industry, and the key themes expected to dominate this year's...
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Turning IoT into a personal, multiscreen consumer proposition
Over a short space of time, web technologies have evolved rapidly in order to create new immersive web experiences such as tailored web browsing,...
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MAM Leaders’ Series blog: Jouni Frilander, Yle
We begin our TVBEurope MAM Leader’s Series blog, in association with Avid, with an article from Jouni Frilander, portfolio manager, media systems technology and...
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The power of the cloud: Helping to streamline the business of content monetisation
As the TV industry moves towards a more software based operating environment, more and more companies are turning to the cloud. And with benefits...
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From scene to 4K screen
Technology trends over the last year have travelled in the direction of bigger, better, faster and higher quality. We saw it with the growth...
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Broadcast in the cloud: Keeping up with video streaming
The broadcast world has been a late convert to cloud computing, but the benefits are especially timely for an industry that embraces the concept...
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Technology’s influence on consumer services
Broadcast has evolved dramatically over the past 15 years in technology, workflows, end customer viewing habits, distribution methods as well the cost of producing...
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Handling the ticking technology time bomb
John Harmer, senior engineer at BBC Studios and Post Production Digital Media Services, talks about the need not just to preserve the valuable assets...
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The future of OTT
Gene Hoffman, chairman and CEO of Vindicia, talks to TVBEurope about the predicted growth of VoD services, the power of Netflix, and the future...
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IP for contribution broadcast: ubiquity and beyond
As an industry, professional broadcasting accepted IP in the contribution realm with more than a little dose of skepticism. For all of IP’s benefits...
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Local TV’s success will come from balancing revenues and view
This year has seen the local TV project finally start to come to fruition, with the launches of services around the UK including London...
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The Netflix effect
This may come as news to many Americans, but Netflix has yet to take over the world. It obviously enjoys a huge competitive advantage...
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TV and convergence – does satellite have a future?
More service providers than ever are now entering the broadcast space and the technology landscape for content distribution can be highly confusing. David Crawford,...
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Illegal downloading will lead to endless Dave, but no Dr Who
The growth in illegal downloads of TV programmes, if left unchecked, will lead to a world without the ability to fund creativity and a...