Author: Russell Trafford-Jones

Webinar: Compression Economics

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Date: Today, 23rd July, 2018 16:00 BST / 8am PST

This joint webinar from the IABM and V-Nova, will dive into the current state of the compression market, exploring new technologies and assessing compression costs and benefits to broadcasters, operators and OTT providers.

“More with less,” this has always been the compression mantra since the beginning. With the rise of new media and the emergence of immersive formats such as UHD and VR, compression vendors have been again asked to deliver better quality at a reduced bit-rate.

    Topics include:

  • Industry trends driving demand for improved video compression
  • Shift from hardware to software (and virtualisation) – impact on compression vendors and benefits for operators
  • The benefits of next-generation video compression for AVOD and SVOD services. What are the dynamics? How much of an effect can it have on a streaming video business?
  • The rise of AI – how artificial intelligence can improve compression economics
  • Immersive formats – UHD/VR demand by end-users; economics of delivering these formats and how best to do so
  • HEVC, AV1 and PERSEUS Plus – the various factors dictating what codec to choose and in which scenarios they have most value

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Webinar: Managing Transition to HEVC/VP9/AV1 with Multi-Codec Streaming

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In this talk from Streaming Media East 2018 Paul MacDougall from Bitmovin discusses moving from h.264 to newer codecs.

Video streaming is in a transition towards the next generation of video codecs, offering to double the quality while lowering the required bandwidth. As the successor crown to the ubiquitous AVC/H.264 is still up for grabs, major content providers and device manufacturers are throwing their weights behind competing formats – HEVC/VP9/AV1 – leading to market fragmentation, specifically within web environments. To deal with this challenge, OTT services need to support multiple codecs in an efficient way.

In this presentation, Paul talks about how to evaluate the benefits and the tradeoffs of embracing next-generation compression technologies in your media workflow. He looks at the state of the browser market and compatibility, current deployment percentages and then how to decide whether to do multiple encoding on an asset or not. Paul finished with advice on playback and the state of smart TVs.

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Webinar: Media at the Edge – A new content technology perspective

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Date: 26th July 2018, 16:00 BST

IBC365 continues it’s excellent webinars with this one looking at how pushing computing out to the ‘edge’, meaning closer to the user, will help Broadcasters.

In this webinar, you will learn:

  • What Edge computing is and why it will be key to broadcasting, media and entertainment
  • How edge computing is rapidly evolving to provide content anywhere and everywhere through the IoT and soon across 5G networks
  • What mobile edge computing means for production, processing and video distribution
  • How new consumer experiences, VR, AR, UHD streaming will be driven by the availability of edge infrastructure
  • How to secure the critical IT infrastructure which will house valuable content at the edge of the network

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Speakers:

Damon Neale

 Damon Neale, Chief Technology Officer, BASE Media Cloud

Steven Carlini

 Steven Carlini, Senior Director, Data Centre Global Solutions, Schenider Electric
Moderator:

Ambrose McNevin

 Ambrose McNevin, Managing Director, Tech Marketing Content Ltd

Webinar: AWS Innovate 2018 Online Conference

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Tomorrow, Thursday 19th 2018, 11:00-15:00 BST

At AWS Innovate Online Conference hear the very latest from Dr Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com and Craig Stires, Head of Big Data and Analytics, AWS, APAC then dive deep into any of the 50+ business and technical sessions across ten tracks delivered by AWS experts. This free online conference is designed to inspire and educate you about AWS services and help you develop the skills to design, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications.

Featuring multiple tracks including a ‘Step by Step Guide to Building your Own Video On-Demand Architecture’. This promises to be a really useful intro/refresher in cloud technology.

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