July 18, 2019

Featured News

Amino Acquires UX Specialist 24i Media for €21.4 Million

The acquisition will allow Amino to offer pay TV operators a better-integrated user experience solution; 24i will retain its brand

DVB-I Promises Sub-Second Latency for Broadcast and IP

DVB will release the first DVB-I specifications at IBC in September, promising low latency as well as the ability to deploy standalone or as a broadcast-OTT hybrid

BARB Rolls Out Meters to Improve SVOD Viewing Measurement

New routers will measure panel members' viewing on smartphones for the first time

Featured Articles

DIY: Rudimentary Video Streaming

In our last DIY article, we walked you through basic live audio streaming. Now, put on your coder's hat and dive into a basic video streaming project.

Tokyo Olympics 2020 to be “The Most Digital Ever” and Put Cameras in Orbit

International Olympic Committee broadcaster Olympic Broadcasting Services plans for rocketing increase in digital viewing and remote cloud production for next Olympics

VVC and AV1 Show Efficiency Gains; MPEG Announces Third Next-Gen Codec

BBC R&D finds that AV1 produces better low-bitrate quality than HEVC, but the codec picture will get even muddier in 2020 as MPEG fast tracks VVC, MPEG-5 EVC, and LCEVC

Industry News

Market-leading ThinkAnalytics is the only content discovery vendor with capability to scale to over 100 million users in the cloud

GfK Entertainment to compile digital video data in the USA and Canada for the first time

DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group and GfK Entertainment are extending their long-term partnership. From 2020, the USA and Canada will be the 22nd and 23rd country respectively in which GfK Entertainment makes film and series data available on iVOD and

MainConcept Officially Releases 2GO Product Line Solving Typical Production Workflow Challenges

The individual containerized microservice modules powered by MainConcept’s industry leading technology are the easiest way of enabling encoding, transcoding or streaming features in broadcast and OTT environments

Inside Secure Announces Group Company Name, New Identity and New Trading Symbol

Verimatrix Selected as Combined Company Name to Better Reflect Broader Vision and Solution Offerings