Video: DVB – Turning the Ship Around


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:

  • The new TV value chain, compared to the old
  • The relevance of the physical layer now that everything is IP
  • 5G TV Deployments
  • What is DVB-I and why is it useful for IP-deployed services?
  • DVB’s USPs

Watch now!

Speaker

Peter MacAvock Peter MacAvock
Chairman, DVB
Head of Distribution, Platforms & Services, EBU

Video: Best Practices for Advanced Software Encoder Evaluations

Streaming Media East brings together Beamr, Netflix BAMTECH Media and SSIMWAVE to discuss the best ways to evaluate software encoders and we see there is much overlap with hardware encoder evaluation, too.

The panel gets into detail covering:

  • Test Design
  • Choosing source sequences
  • Rate Control Modes
  • Bit Rate or Quality Target Levls
  • Offline (VOD) vs Live (Linear)
  • Discrete vs. Multi-resolution/Bitrate
  • Subjective vs. objective measurements
  • Encoding Efficiency vs Performance
  • Video vs Still frames
  • PSNR Tuning
  • Evaluation at Encode Resolution Vs Display Resolution

Watch now for this comprehensive ‘How To’

Speakers

Anne Aaron Dr. Anne Aaron
Director of Video Algorithms,
Netflix
Scott Labrozzi Scott Labrozzi
VP Video Processing, Core Media Video Processing,
BAMTECH Media
Zhou Wang Dr. Zhou Wang
Chief Science Officer,
SSIMWAVE
Tom Vaughan Moderator: Tom Vaughan
VP Strategy,
Beamr

Video: The Promise of 5G


The UK’s largest mobile network EE just announced its plan to launch 5G across 16 cities during 2019 and switching on the next-generation network in the busiest locations so it’s clear that 5G is arriving. That’s why it’s all the more important to put the promise of 5G into perspective with regards to broadcasting.

IBC 365 brings together Richard Mills from the Sky VR studios and Claire Harvey from Red Bee to discuss this with Mark Smith.

The discussion touches on the following:
• What are the real benefits
• What applications will drive the take-up of 5G?
• Will it help connectivity at a live event where bandwidth is currently constrained?
• How can broadcasters develop trust in 5G?
• Applying 5G to wildlife filming
• Network Revenue Sharing

Watch now!

Speakers

Claire Harvey Claire Harvey
Key Account Manager, Red Bee Media &
Advisory Board Member, UK5G
Richard Mills Richard Mills
Technical Director, Sky VR Studios &
Chairman, Imaginary Pictures
Mark Smith Mark Smith
Moderator
Independent Marketing Consulting
MSA Ltd (Chair)

Webinar: Pay TV Sports rights strategies in Europe


Date: Thursday 22nd November, 2018. 13:00 GMT, 14:00 CET, 8AM ET
Business strategy firm Dataxis are back with a webinar looking at sports rights.

Sports is becoming more and more important and costly component of the Pay TV operators programming. This webinar will look at the role of premium sports content in the European Pay TV industry.

Are sports programming costs too high now? Are they sustainable? Can new entrants disrupt the market? This webinar covers:

• Sports rights spendings
• Key sports
• Role of telecom operators
• New entrants
• OTT strategies

Register now!

Presenter

Juliette Boulay Juliette Boulay
Research Analyst,
Dataxis