The Broadcast Knowledge

Webinar: Unlocking global success for channel operators and broadcasters

Posted on 27th November 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: Tuesday 4th December, 2018. 16:00 GMT

Join IBC365 and Tata Communications to explore how organisations are using cloud playout to deploy a unified solution for both playout and distribution on a global basis, and why cloud is fast becoming the preferred option for many linear channel operators and broadcasters.

Cloud playout offers the potential for rapid channel launches, more efficient and resilient operations and a clear commercial model enabling linear channels to be more successful and profitable.

In this Webinar:

Explore cloud success stories, like Woohoo TV, Latin America’s first dedicated channel for sports, music and youth culture. It expanded rapidly into new markets in the U.S. without needing capital investment by deploying Tata Communications’ Cloud Master Control and Video Connect solutions.
Learn how Cloud Master Control delivers a future-ready virtualised IP environment powered by industry-leading technology vendors, enabling channel operators to scale rapidly from a single channel to a large-scale multi-channel operation, with complete flexibility and reliability.
Understand the business, technology and operational benefits and the crucial questions to ask before moving your channel playout operation to a cloud playout provider.

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Speakers

	Jeremy Dujardin CTO Media Services, Tata Communications
	Dhaval Ponda Global Sales Head Media Services, Tata Communications

Meeting: London Video Tech Meet-Up

Posted on 26th November 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: December 4th, 2018. 19:00-21:00
Location:Near Piccadilly Circus, 20 Air Street, W1B 5AN

London Video Tech meets again! This time at Twitter’s London HQ near Piccadilly. Featuring a panel discussing the highlights of the Demuxed conference plus two talks on Dynamic Content Insertion and Network Distributed Video Coding, this should be a really interesting meet up of a great community.

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Speakers

	Glenn Van Wallendael Network Distributed Video Coding, Ghent University
	Rob Shield Principal Software Engineer, M2A Media
	Sebastiaan Van Leuven Senior Video Engineer, Twitter
	Phil Cluff Demuxed Foundation

Video: BBC Wales Cardiff Project Update

Posted on 23rd November 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

The BBC’s Mark Patrick talks about the BBC’s move not only of their Welsh HQ but of their move from SDI to IP. Covering the reasons for the move, the architectures they are implementing and how they are mitigating the risks, this is a great real-world example of implementing SMPTE ST 2110.

From IBC’s IP Showcase, Mark explains the interoperability work they are doing and critically how they have approached testing. In large systems and with IT-based systems Mark explains it’s imperative to have repeatable, structured and where possible automated acceptance testing which is a big change in the way we do things in the industry.

Mark also covers training, audio issues, timing incompatibilities and control of the system with NMOS to round off a great, pragmatic overview of this ST 2110 project.

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Speaker

Mark Patrick
Lead Architect,
BBC

Video: DVB – Turning the Ship Around

Posted on 22nd November 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

In this video of the SCTE Autumn Lecture 2018, Chairman of DVB and the EBU’s Head of Distribution, Platforms & Services, Peter MacAvock explains the ways in which DVB, such a successful influence in our move to digital television, is relevant today and is still working to improve television delivery.

Peter starts with some positive news on the the level of TV watching still sustained throughout Europe despite the indisputable rise of Netflix, partly because much of that viewing has migrated to the television set.

There is a discussion of the promise of DVB-C2 which is introduced with a league table pitching the DVB standards as teams against the mighty ‘Shannon United’ football team that can’t be beaten. Find out what score DVB-C2 would have got if it had seen adoption.

In the rest of this talk, discusses the following: