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Webinar: DVB-DASH

Posted on 7th June 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: 13th June 2018, 14:00 BST
DVB-DASH, for the delivery of TV content via HTTP adaptive streaming, provides a profile of features defined in the MPEG DASH specification. The latest revision of DVB-DASH, published by ETSI in March 2018, adds features related to UHD.

This webinar will have three sections:

General introduction to DVB-DASH (TS 103 285 1.2.1)
DVB-DASH player conformance points (TS 101 154 2.4.1)
Deployments and use cases
Those following the webinar live will have an opportunity to post questions to the presenters.

Speakers:

Simon Waller, Chief Standards Engineer at Samsung Electronics Research Institute UK
Chris Poole, Lead Research Engineer at BBC R&D
Martin Schmalohr, Researcher at IRT

Webinar: Broadcast Under attack – Protecting Content and Defending Infrastructure

Posted on 6th June 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

On-demand Webinar

Cyber attacks are on everyone’s agenda but with so much at stake just how should Broadcast, Media and Entertainment players protect themselves in an increasingly hostile world?

High profile attacks on broadcast and media players are on the increase. But what does the threat landscape look like? What are the new attack surfaces and how should broadcasters and media companies approach cybersecurity?

Speakers:

• Brian Brackenborough, CISO, Channel 4
• Richard Welsh, CEO, Sundog Media Toolkit & VP of Education, SMPTE
• Cameron Brown, Information Security Strategist & Cyber Defence, EY

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Webinar: Moving Beyond SDI In Live Production

Posted on 5th June 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: Thursday, June 7
Time: 11:00 am ET, 16:00 BST

Using IP networks for real-time video is a powerful enabler. However, it comes with challenges.

How can we guarantee that IP networks provide the same level of reliability, performance and low latency as SDI operations?

Join IP experts James Stellpflug, VP Product Marketing at EVS, and Christophe Messa, Product Manager IP Solutions at EVS, along with our special guest Sunil Gudurvalmiki, Senior Product Manager at Cisco, for a bleeding edge look at how facilities can fully empower an IP infrastructure that goes beyond point-to-point topologies while delivering the required level of speed, reliability and performance for live productions.

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Webinar: HDR – Bright prospects ahead, but where are we now?

Posted on 4th June 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Time: 15:00 BST, Wednesday June 13th 2018

A review of current technology and real-world deployments

The WOW factor: Why HDR?
HDR standards: HLG, PQ or HDR10 variants?
Content availability: HD or UHD?
Consumer displays: Mobile phones or 4K/8K TV?
HDR distribution: Broadcast, OTT or 4G/5G?
Real world deployments

The competition for viewers’ eyeballs and their disposable income has never been fiercer. Great picture quality is one weapon that service providers – especially broadcasters – can deploy to attract and retain viewers.

It’s true that millions of 4K ready TVs have been sold, but in practice most TVs sold before 2017 don’t have any support for HDR at all. Many different variants of HDR have also emerged in an attempt to offer higher quality coupled with some backwards compatibility with those early TVs, but broadcasters have been perhaps understandably reluctant to commit to producing 4K or HDR content with the costs of the ill-fated 3DTV still on their books.

This webinar looks at HDR in general and the different variants that have emerged. The drive for 4K, or even 8K, content and displays is contrasted with consumers’ willingness to watch full HD with HDR on the latest mobile phone displays…
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