Webinar: Broadcast Under attack – Protecting Content and Defending Infrastructure

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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

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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?

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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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Speakers:

David Smith
Technology Manager
Rohde & Schwarz

Andy Quested
Technology Strategy & Architecture
BBC Design + Engineering

Paul Clennell
Chief Technology Officer
dock10

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Video: NAB – Not Just Technology

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

A recording a Mark Schubin speaking at a SMPTE Washington D.C. Meeting after NAB this year. A highly insightful talk, Mark looks at the technology topics of NAB and joins them up with context surrounding them; politics, policy, progress and more.

Topics include
• This year’s decline in visitor turnout
• ATSC 3.0
• ZTE & Chinese companies
• Cloud pricing
• Applicability of Media over IP (ST 2110)
• Future codecs (VPP, PERSEUS, JPEG XS etc.)
• Displays and much more.

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