Webinar: How 5G Will Change Broadcast


5G is in key focus as we approach IBC and few are more invested in it than BT/EE in the UK. TVB Europe gives the platform to Matt Stagg from BT to explain what 5G means to them.

Date: 5th September, 15:00 BST
This webinar has been rescheduled from August.

Topics will include:

– How can 5G be used for remote production?
– What does network slicing mean for production process?
– What impact will 5G have on traditional pay-TV? Will it help operators find a bigger audience as they fight against the streaming services?
– Will 5G see consumers become more interested in virtual reality?
– Could 5G see the death of broadband?
– How far away is 6G?

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Speaker

Matt Stagg Matt Stagg
Director of Mobile Strategy,
BT Sport

Webinar: Automated media workflows in the cloud

Date: September 3rd 2019 Time: 15:30 BST, 10am EDT

Across the media and entertainment industry, more organisations are moving to modern, cloud-based applications to meet growing demands for scale and flexibility.

As a complement to the scale and efficiency of high-volume cloud-based IT operations, process automation can greatly streamline media workflows.

In this webinar, James Wilson from IBM Aspera on Cloud shows its impact on routine processes whilst BASE Media Cloud joins to describe purpose-built cloud workflows for digital media companies, including automated quality control and content distribution.

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Speakers

James Wilson James Wilson
Director of Engineering,
IBM Aspera on Cloud
Ben Foakes Ben Foakes
Managing Director,
BASE Media Cloud

Webinar: Cloud Ingest

RIST and SRT are gaining more and more traction as they solve the reliability question over internet contribution. Promising cheaper costs than dedicated circuits, so much of our life uses the internet, it seems logical that it helps connect broadcasts as much as it does video conferences.

SRT and RIST are both protocols which allow streaming of video and other media over networks. If any packets go missing then the receiver will let the sender know and the sender will retransmit the missing data. All being well, these missing packets will arrive in time and no one will know that any data loss took place.

SRT was started by Haivision and is now an open source collaboration with a public repository and slack workspace. It goes beyond simple retransmission and actually offers an encrypted link which is so important when it comes to sports and other high value content.

RIST is being developed by the Video Services Forum (VSF) and the specifcation TR-06 defines how it works. This is is released as a freely-available specification and implementations based on the first release were shown at IBC2018. For a video on RIST, check out this talk from Merrick Ackermans

The RIST working group comprises people from Haivision, Zixi, NetInsight and other companies many of whom also have similar technologies. So the question is why is RIST of so much interest and what are the differences and benefits to SRT?

This Webinar from Net Insight sets out to answer just this question as we’ll as looking to the future to see what is yet to come on the RIST roadmap.

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Speakers

Love Thyresson Love Thyresson
Head of Internet Media Transport,
Net Insight
Alexander Sandström Alexander Sandström
Head of Product Marketing & Co-chair of RIST Forum,
Net Insight

Video: From WebRTC to RTMP

With the demise of RTMP, what can WebRTC – its closest equivalent – learn from it? RTC stands for Real-Time Communications and hails from the video/voice teleconferencing world. RTC traditionally has ultra-low latency (think sub-second; real-time) so as broadcasters and streaming companies look to reduce latency it’s the obvious technology to look at. However, RTC comes from a background of small meetings, mixed resolutions, mixed bandwidths and so the protocols underpinning it can be lacking what broadcast-style streamers need.

Nick Chadwick from MUX looks at the pros and cons of the venerable RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol). What was in it that was used and unused? What did need that it didn’t have? What gap is being left by its phasing out?

Filling these increasing gaps is the focus of the streaming community and whether that comes through WebRTC, fragmented MP4 delivered over web sockets, Low-Latency HLS, Apple’s Low-Latency HLS, SASH, CMAF or something else…it still needs to be fulfilled.

Nick finishes with two demos which show the capabilities of WebRTC which outstrip RTMP – live mixing on a browser. WebRTC clearly has a future for more adventurous services which don’t simply want to deliver a linear channel to sofa-dwelling humans. But surely Nick’s message is WebRTC needs to step up to the plate for broadcasters, in general, to enable them to achieve < 1-second end-to-end latency in a way which is compatible with broadcast workflows.

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Speaker

Nick Chadwick Nick Chadwick
Software Engineer,
Mux