Russell Trafford-Jones, Author at The Broadcast Knowledge

Webinar: Pay TV Sports rights strategies in Europe

Posted on 19th November 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: Thursday 22nd November, 2018. 13:00 GMT, 14:00 CET, 8AM ET
Business strategy firm Dataxis are back with a webinar looking at sports rights.

Sports is becoming more and more important and costly component of the Pay TV operators programming. This webinar will look at the role of premium sports content in the European Pay TV industry.

Are sports programming costs too high now? Are they sustainable? Can new entrants disrupt the market? This webinar covers:

• Sports rights spendings
• Key sports
• Role of telecom operators
• New entrants
• OTT strategies

Register now!

Presenter

Juliette Boulay
Research Analyst,
Dataxis

Webinar: Control and Monitoring in an IP Infrastructure

Posted on 16th November 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: Monday 19th November 2018, 08:00 GMT and again at 16:00 GMT

Axon’s back with their 5th webinar in the Broadcast IP 101 series. Previously they have covered preparing for IP, the basics, Transport Formats and uncompressed vs compressed video. Now they are back to talk about control and monitoring.

The well-known 2022 and 2110 standards define transportation of video (and other essences). Like SDI-related standards, they don’t describe how to control the path of signals or monitor them. Unlike SDI, however, we expect to know what’s plugged in to our networks (AKA discovery) and then to control the data flow. There are proprietary and open specifications for doing this, including AMWA IS-04, IS-05 and IS-06 which deal with discovery, control and connection management.

In this webinar, CTO Peter Schut describes the lay of the land and how you can implement control and monitoring in an IP infrastructure.

The webinar happens twice. Once at 08:00 GMT (Midnight PT) and once at 16:00 GMT (11am ET).

Register now! Early, Late

Speaker

Peter Schut
CTO,
Axon

Webinar: Transitioning Video Delivery to the Cloud – Best Practices

Posted on 15th November 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

The Streaming Video Alliance are back with a packed panel of experts discussing the move from broadcast channels to the cloud.

The real transition from traditional TV broadcast to online video is happening behind the scenes as incumbents and new providers embrace cloud resources to provide a scalable, distributed means to reach the widest possible audience. But the cloud is complicated. With a myriad of providers and a bevy of services available, providers need to understand both how the cloud can help streaming video workflows as well as the challenges involved with implementation and integration. In this panel, you’ll hear experts discuss a variety of challenges with cloud-based workflows, the growing importance of edge computing, and best practices for adopting cloud technologies in video delivery.

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Speakers

	Dror Gill CTO & VP Marketing, Beamr
	Raji Sankaran Software Engineer II, Concurrent Computer Corporation
	Michael McCluskey VP Product Management, Espial
	Petr Peterka Chief Technology Officer, Verimatrix
	Johan Bolin VP Products, Edgeware AB

Moderator: Jason Thibeault
Executive Director,
Streaming Video Alliance

Video: Integrating Machine Learning with ABR streaming at YouTube

Posted on 14th November 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

In another great talk from Demuxed 2018, Steve Robertson from YouTube sheds light on trials they have been running, some with Machine Learning, to understand viewer’s appreciation of quality. Tests involve profiling the ways – and hence environments – users watch in, using different UIs, occasionally resetting a quality level preference and others. Some had big effects, whilst others didn’t.

The end-game here is acknowledging that mobile data costs money for consumers, but clearly YouTube would like to reduce their bandwidth costs too. So when quality is not needed, don’t supply it.

The talk starts with a brief AV1 update, YouTube being an early adopter of it in production.

Watch now!