MediaPower Newsletter

Our CTO Paolo Birra discusses a commercial and technological strategy in digitizing, logging, and archiving videotapes for the purpose of Digital Preservation. This guide covers an overview of digitization and digital obsolescence, considerations for data selection, digitization strategy, migration through robotic automation and Arkki EVO DAM.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are technologies that enterprises across industries have been keenly experimenting with to explore the utility they can bring. Is there AI adoption within the M&E industry? Can AI be the solution for enterprises seeking automation? Have we cracked the AI code or do we have miles to go?

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Media companies have used intelligent network solutions and the cloud to respond to production challenges at the height of lockdowns. A TV Technology article covered some of these strategies. As countries start to ease down on restrictions, a blizzard of Covid-19 shooting protocols are published around the world, with each set of guidelines pored over by the industry to see when and how production might be able to restart.

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Elite sports have been given the nod to go live. Project restart is a major exercise in social distancing and leaner on-site workflows that has got every broadcaster and sports producer scrambling to adjust. IBC 365 looks at how elite sports plan to social distance and get fans closer to the action after the coronavirus lockdown.

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As part of its Virtual Media Summit, CDN provider Akamai outlined how the volume and peaks of internet traffic can be controlled, effectively flattening the streaming curve just like lockdowns were designed to tackle the spread of the virus itself in the wider world.

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After months of locked-down borders, countries that have stifled the coronavirus are trying to choreograph a risky dance: how to bring back visitors without importing another burst of uncontrolled contagion. Above all, it’s trust. Countries are rebuilding relationships under enormous economic pressure, while keeping a wary eye on a virus that’s not going away soon.

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If an 8K content service from OTT providers like Amazon, Netflix and YouTube is ever going to be successful, and that’s still a hot topic of debate, new types of compression will have to be part of the solution. Terrestrial broadcasters don’t have the infrastructure to handle it, regardless of the compression used.

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As countries reopen their economies, tensions escalate between those who believe it is safe now to resume normal business activity – and even ignore social distancing and the need to wear face masks – and those who prefer a more cautious, slower path toward something resembling pre-coronavirus life. These differences aren’t just random personality types; they reflect our primal social mindsets.

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To avoid going the way of the proverbial radio star, lean into the digital transformation that’s sweeping the media and entertainment industry. You don’t necessarily need an expensive tech stack or sophisticated data warehouse to get started. Laying a strong foundation starts with a shift in thinking and a customer-centric strategy.

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New data shows that the big spike in viewers of OTT TV services is dissipating. Could the production halt be the culprit? The growth in smartphone video use is not slowing down, and video download viewing is not slowing either. So, is a lack of new content impacting OTT views?

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Fire up your workflows. Boost your productivity. Integrate with other applications. From new asset sharing and transfer features, application integration capabilities, to faster searches, we're delivering new features to MediaPower's Arkki EVO DAM that improve collaborative workflows, productivity, integration, security, and more!

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Sky Italia senior director of Production Broadcast and Creative Hub Riccardo Botta tells SVG Europe how the broadcaster moved to remote working well before the lockdown in Italy and has now mixed various professional, prosumer and consumer technologies together to enable work to continue and shows to remain on air during the crisis.

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In series of blog posts and videos, our colleagues from ProMAX put together some practical references and tips on remote video production:

• Switching your Video Team to Remote Video Production
• Barriers to Remote Video Production
• The Ideal Remote Video Production Workflow

When we came out of the financial crisis of 2008, cloud computing kicked into high gear. The current crisis could do the same for AI. The Coronavirus pandemic could be a catalyst for AI to be standard and essential technology in a post-COVID world.

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