Author: Russell Trafford-Jones

Webinar: Demystifying the Asian Pay-TV Market.

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Date : 13:00 BST May 30th 2018
Presenter: Juliette Boulay, Analyst, Dataxis
With a higher pay-TV subscriber base and substantial growth potential, the Asian market is often described as full of opportunities for businesses. But from Australia to Laos or China, local markets are showing a great variety of trends.
The aim of this webinar is to situate Asia on the worldwide pay-TV market and to address its specificities.

Key topics :
– Global pay-TV subscribers and revenue trends
– Characteristics of Asian markets in terms of demand and Pay-TV service offer
– Challenges, opportunities and forecasts by region

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Video: Proposed Measured Display Characterization File for HDR Consumer Displays

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Tyler Pruitt explains how HDR displays can be characterised and how this can be implemented. Based up on a technical paper here, this talk covers these topics and includes an extensive Q&A section.
• Rec 709 workflows
• Colour Volume Remapping
• Dynamic Metadata
• BT.2100 Calibration
• HDR Calibration
• HDR Bypass
• Colour Volume Profile Files

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Video: How to Fine Tune your Adaptive Encoding Groups with Objective Quality Metrics

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In this on-demaind video, Streaming Learning Center’s Jan Ozer explains objective metrics to us and how they can be used to build better ABR ladders.

Choosing the number of streams in an adaptive group and configuring them is usually a subjective, touchy-feely exercise, with no way to really gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of the streams. However, by measuring stream quality via metrics such as PSNR, SSIMplus, and VQM, you can precisely assess the quality delivered by each stream and its relevancy to the adaptive group.

This presentation identifies several key objective quality metrics, teaches how to apply them, and provides an objective framework for analyzing which streams are absolutely required in your adaptive group and their optimal configuration.

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Webinar: Foundational Concepts: Video Compression, Processing and Delivery

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On demand webinar from AWS Elemental covering some streaming basics.

In this webcast, you will:
• Learn how to create and deliver video over the internet
• Understand video codecs, containers, popular delivery methods and content delivery networks
• Consider methods, including adaptive bitrate streaming, that enable high-quality video to be delivered to a wide range of internet-connected devices
• Learn about the latest trends in video compression and delivery

Increasing smartphone subscriptions and data volumes per subscription are driving rapid growth in mobile data traffic, much of which is video content. According to multiple industry reports, these trends will continue for the near future, and by 2020, 75 percent of the world’s mobile data traffic will be video according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index. Technical and business leaders at organizations that aim to expand offerings using video need to understand the complexities of delivering premium viewing experiences to consumers.

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