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Webinar: New Goals for Innovating Live Sports

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

Sports broadcasting has always been on the forefront of technology both by developing products specifically for the sporting market such as sports graphics, annotation and ball tracking and also by pressing nearly any new technology that comes along into production.
The result of this relentless thirst for technology is year-by-year better and better productions done in more innovative and often lower-cost ways.

Date: Thursday June 20th, 2019. Time: 16:00 BST
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Remote production has long been a buzz word in sports broadcasting which has taken a long time to take hold (known as REMIs in North America). This is partly because the technologies needed to do it really well and really seamlessly are only just becoming dominant and partly because sports workflows from a technology and a business needs perspective are so different from company to company that one remote production.

However there are ever stronger pushes into remote production which very much brings remote production into day-to-day use in many companies. Kiswe Mobile joins us on this webinar to explain their experience in enabling remote production.

AI is looked on as an important tool in sports broadcasting. With so much data, both visual and textual, AI will increasingly be an excellent tool to parse and interpret these large data sets. Whether this is simply to produce better stats analytics or to comb through the thousands of hours of footage looking for, and logging, interesting events between players, ball possession stats etc.

IBC brings in Jérôme Wauthoz from Tedial and production consultant Mike Ruddell to bring us their experience making the sports on our screens as great as it can be at a cost that broadcasters can afford.

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Speakers

Jérôme Wauthoz Jérôme Wauthoz
Vice President of Products,
Tedial
Francis Zane Francis Zane
Chief Technology Officer,
Kiswe Mobile
Mike Ruddell Mike Ruddell
Sports Production Innovation Consultant

Webinar: Low-Latency CMAF vs. WebRTC

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

CMAF brings low latency streams of less than 4 seconds into the realms of possibility, WebRTC pushes that below a second – but which is the right technology for you?

Date: June 12th 2019 Time: 11am PST / 2pm EST / 19:00 BST

CMAF represents an evolution of the tried and tested technologies HLS and DASH. With massive scalability and built upon the well-worn tenants of HTTP, Netflix and a whole industry was born and is thriving on these still-evolving technologies. The push to reduce latency further and further has resulted in CMAF which can be used to deliver streams with five to ten times lower latencies.

WebRTC is a Google-backed streaming protocol with the traditional meaning of streaming; it pushes a stream to you a opposed to the HLS-style methods of making small files available for download and reassembly into a stream. One benefit of this is extremely low bitrates of 1 second or less. Used widely by Google Hangouts and Facebook messenger, WebRTC is increasingly an option for more broadcast-style streaming services from live sports & music to gaming and gambling.

Both have advantages and draw-backs so Wowza’s Barry Owen and Anne Balistreri are here to help navigate the ins and outs of both technologies plus answer your questions.

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Speakers

Barry Owen Barry Owen
VP, Professional Services,
Wowza
Anne Balistreri Anne Balistreri
Product Marketing Manager,
Wowza

Webinar: Tools for DASH Streaming

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

MPEG DASH is a standardised, widely-supported protocol for networked streaming – but how can you spot problems and tell if you or another vendor have implemented it right?

This webinar, run by HbbTV – an initiative aimed at merging over-the-air broadcast with broadband delivery (which includes both file-download and streaming) – sets out to explain how you can test your DASH streaming using new tools now available. For instance, HbbTV and DVB have collaborated on a DASH validation tool which checks MPDs, segments and more to be sure that a stream is compliant with both DVB and HbbTV specifications.

Bringing together the experience of Bob Campbell from Eurofins, Waqar Zia from Nomor Research and Juha Joki from Sofia Digital, anyone who develops for, or provides services based on DASH will benefit from this webinar.

Date: 18th June 2019, 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST

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Speakers

Bob Campbell Bob Campbell
Directory of Engineering,
Eurofins Digital Testing
Juha Joki Juha Joki
Director, Broadcast & Testing
Sofia Digital
Waqar Zia Waqar Zia
Head of Multimedia Delivery,
Nomor Research GmbH

Webinar: AWS Insights – Content Creation, Distribution & Media Supply Chain

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

Webinar Date: Thursday May 30th 2019
Time: Duration 4 hours. 7am PT / 10am ET / 15:00 BST

AWS is synonymous with cloud computing so an insight into managing media on AWS is an insight into cloud computing in general. AWS is offering a 4-hour showcase of implementing content creation, distribution and your supply chain in the cloud.

The online event starts with a keynote on the motivations for moving your workflows into the cloud and how AWS meets them. After that, there are 3 tracks which track the 3 topics.

The complete list is available here. AWS Elemental dominates the distribution track explaining the use cases that can be met and going through the many in-cloud transcoding options.

The creation and supply chain tracks finish with a customer spotlight from FuseFX and Deluxe respectively. For anyone considering a move to the cloud for any part of their operation, these sessions should shed light on what is actually achievable and what is still wishful thinking.

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