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Transport and delivery systems for TV and Video are an integral part of our industry. DVEO is a leader in DVB ASI, Transport Streams, MPEG Encoding, and video over IP solutions. So back in July, we added DVEO's transport and delivery offerings to our line-up.

Automation brings many benefits to sports production - from lower costs to more efficient workflows. So we sought out a solution that is now pioneering this field. During IBC, we announced our partnership with Mediapro. Mediapro's AutomaticTV provides intelligent and automated sports production.

The battle with FAANG is real. For some of us who may not be in the know, FAANG stands for the stock market's five most popular and best-performing tech stocks, namely Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet’s Google.

With FAANG's huge dominance over video content and streaming, some may wonder if the likes of Netflix and Amazon can be overtaken. But many actions are already being taken to get some share of the pie. Broadcasters have already started to unite (like European Broadcasters banding together) to combat the global SVOD threat. Even telcos are joining the fray in the hope of boosting their own revenues. At IBC, advertisers believe working with FAANG, and not just against them, is an option.

Its association with cryptocurrency may be a turn off for some broadcasters, but blockchain’s ability to track rights and maximize the monetization of content is at least worthy of experimentation.

What use case is there for a giant global spreadsheet capable of running on millions of computers? One that can secure a rights holder’s IP stake and can confirm who gets paid for what and when without relying on a central authority such as a bank, a rights intermediary or a broadcaster.

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Social media is a significant avenue for getting informed and viewing content. And while that is mostly good, we cannot discount the bad that comes with it, especially concerning moderation. Although incredibly difficult, regulators have to face up to the task of regulation and moderation.

In this Motherboard article, they look at how moderating billions of posts a week in more than a hundred languages has become Facebook’s biggest challenge, and show how the company is hoping to solve it based on leaked documents and nearly two dozen interviews.

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ProMAX talks about the basics of NewTek’s NDI [Network Digital Interface], a groundbreaking technology that opens a lot of doors for the video industry. In this 3-part article, ProMAX takes you through an NDI journey and compares it to SDI [Serial Digital Interface], which had been the standard digital interface since 1989.
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In a world that continues to become more and more digital, Broadcast and Publishing organizations are faced with the challenge of lack of capital and know-how to start or develop further their digital division profitably. This white paper offers some answers to the question of how to monetize the consumption of content and services by the digital public - from commercial to technological strategies that allow content providers to activate new revenue streams from the distribution and sale of content and advertising on the web, mobile, and social networks.

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Based on recent data from surveys and studies, live TV viewing is on a decline. This is especially the case for younger audiences who are more disengaged from live TV viewing.

In this article, nScreenMedia states that while live TV viewing decline may indeed be the case, most of the viewing losses for traditional TV transferred directly to the connected TV, and that this is actually an opportunity for connected TV. Even at the Global Game Changers conference at IBC, speakers said that broadcasters must partner with digital platforms to attract younger audiences.

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AI Analysis tools for video are beginning to emerge in 2018. Epiphan Video takes a look at several interesting use cases on the cutting edge of AI video technology in their July 12 live show.

Live @ Epiphan is a weekly live show covering topics related to live streaming, video technology, video production and best practices for content creators.

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We think this is an insightful article on viewer tracking. Amidst growing concern over online data and user privacy, the New York Times looks at TV viewer tracking, mainly how Samba TV and other companies track viewer information to make personalized recommendations to US viewers.

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This article from The Economist tracks the unprecedented growth of Netflix, having started as a DVD-rental firm in 2000 before moving into streaming in 2011, and now being a powerhouse industry in and of itself, that other content producers and media companies are trying to catch up with.

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This MIP Blog guest article looks at why the TV industry should pay more attention than ever to VR, as evidenced in MIPTV 2018.

Even our friends from IBC seem to agree as they posted their own article "Is mixed reality the future of immersive entertainment?" last July 30, and followed up with a roundup of the latest production techniques for immersive content.

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In the remote case that you missed it, Disney has shared its OTT plans earlier this year which includes, of course, the launch of its own OTT service next year. Back in August, the New York Times published more details of Disney's upcoming service. In this July article, IBC investigates whether Disney can catch up to Netflix and whether it has what it takes to be one of the bigger players.

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More so than many other technology trends, artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly become one of the main buzzwords in broadcast and media production. As a result, marketers in every area of the industry are now presenting products that integrate AI to deliver better production workflows. Increasingly though, the definition of AI has become somewhat cloudy – many automation-centric tools are being mislabeled as intelligent.

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In this SVG article, it is said that while much is being made of the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning to scale up live sports production dramatically, caution is being urged by the very vendors developing AI workflows.

While we at MediaPower agree that A.I. is in its infancy, there are automated sports production solutions already which pave the way for A.I. to mature and progress into complete sports production, such as Mediapro's AutomaticTV.

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