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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...
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Increased demand for UK content creation will create more opportunities for a diversified film and TV industry
It is no longer simply the demands of conventional television that must be met, but our desire to consume entertainment on multiple screens, at...
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The transformation of entertainment content delivery
Dror Gill, CTO, Beamr, examines the major trends in delivering entertainment content to consumers, and their impact on all industry players.
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IP technologies are an evolution, not a revolution in our industry
As co-founder of the company, Dan Castles has led Telestream throughout its 16-year history, seeing it grow from being a file-based workflow pioneer to...
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Sensing a large opportunity
As broadcast professionals from around the world prepare to convene at IBC in Amsterdam, it’s time to recognise a shift within the industry that’s...
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TV navigation in a multiscreen world
The emergence of multiscreen services has transformed the television landscape, and we are now seeing unprecedented levels of content consumption across a multiplicity of...
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Television evolves into the many
Disruption is part and parcel of the television industry, and today’s disrupters are the Hulus, Amazons and Googles of the world, offering over-the-top (OTT)...
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Debunking the myth of cloud chaos
Aframe’s David Peto dismisses the myth of cloud chaos and outlines how businesses are harnessing the power of cloud video without compromising IT control.
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The brave new world
Alla Salehian, CEO of The International Media Associates (TIMA), explores the impact that technology is having on the media industry, with particular regard to...
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The mobilisation of TV
TV has gone mobile, thanks to Twitter and Facebook, writes Gareth Capon, CEO of social video company, Grabyo.
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IBC 2014 – What can we expect?
Simon Kay, managing director, RRsat, discusses the trends and technologies we can expect at IBC 2014.
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Never miss a goal again: Second screen takes the lead in 2014 World Cup
A lot can change in four years, particularly in the world of sport. 2010 saw over 20 million British viewers tune in to the...
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Is software eating broadcast technology?
Steve Plunkett, chief technology officer at Red Bee Media, looks at the likely challenges and opportunities of a software-based future for broadcast companies.