Digital TV News: SMPTE
SMPTE releases engineering report on AI and the media
Feb 20, 2024 – SMPTE, in conjunction with the EBU and the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), has released a report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its effect on the media.
News categories:
SMPTE, European Broadcasting Union, Entertainment Technology Center, Renard T. Jenkins, Fred Walls, Big Data, Digital TV, Smart Home, UX, Worldwide
Avid provides Iceland's RÚV with ingest and playout solution
Nov 21, 2023 – Avid has signed a subscription agreement with Icelandic state broadcaster RÚV to upgrade its server platform to Avid | Stream IO, Avid's new ingest and playout solution.
News categories:
Avid Tech, RÚV, Tom Cordiner, Bragi Reynisson, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Iceland
Allegro DVT introduces DVB-TTML subtitling test suite
Sep 7, 2023 – Allegro DVT has announced the availability of the industry's first DVB-TTML Test Suite which enables testing of the mandatory DVB-TTML Subtitling Systems Specification.
News categories:
Allegro DVT, Nouar Hamze, Digital TV, QoE, UX, Worldwide
NRK chooses Appear encoding for DVB and OTT distribution
Aug 15, 2023 – Appear has been chosen by NRK to build and run a compression platform to deliver streams for transcoding by various content distributors across Norway as well as for NRK's OTT and DVB systems.
News categories:
Appear, NRK, Thomas Bostrøm Jørgensen, Henrik Slåen, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Norway
MediaKind and Net Insight unveil end-to-end broadcast distribution system
Apr 12, 2023 – MediaKind and Net Insight have entered into a partnership to build an end-to-end cloud-first IP video distribution system for broadcasters and video distributors.
News categories:
MediaKind, Net Insight, Boris Felts, Per Lindgren, Broadcast, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Worldwide
Iowa PBS upgrades encoding with Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark
Apr 4, 2023 – Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark has been contracted by Iowa PBS for the upgrade of their central cast ATSC Encoding System. The solution supports ATSC 1.0 now and ATSC 3.0 when it goes live.
News categories:
COMARK, Iowa PBS, Joe Turbolski, ATSC 3, Content Distribution, Digital TV, USA
SAPEC powers World Cup UHD broadcasting on DTT in Spain
Dec 19, 2022 – SAPEC solutions played a fundamental role in the contribution and distribution through DTT of the Qatar 2022 World Cup in Spain via the use of its Sivac-ONE media processing platform.
News categories:
SAPEC, Mediapro, UHD Spain, Miguel Ángel Cristóbal, Emili Planas, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Spain
SMPTE publishes guide to ontologies and semantics for media in the cloud
Dec 6, 2022 – SMPTE has collaborated with the EBU and MovieLabs to publish a guide to the use of ontologies and other semantic web technologies within a media landscape characterized by the movement of workflows into the cloud.
News categories:
SMPTE, MovieLabs, EBU, David Grindle, Jim Helman, Hans Hoffmann, Big Data, Digital TV, Worldwide
ATSC 3.0 technologies selected for Brazil's TV 3.0 system
Jan 18, 2022 – The ATSC has announced that the SBTVD Forum has recommended to the Brazilian government the selection of several technologies proposed by ATSC for Brazil's next-generation terrestrial digital television standard.
News categories:
Advanced Television Systems Committee, SBTVD Forum, Madeleine Noland, Skip Pizzi, ATSC 3, Brazil, Content Distribution, Digital TV, SBTVD
Latest News
- 30% of EU SVOD viewing time goes to content from the EU plus UK
- Circle City renews with Nielsen for Local TV measurement
- Skyworth and China Mobile launch 8K set-top box
- Orange Spain, MASMOVIL joint venture begins operations
- Brightcove launches Cloud Playout 2.0
- MediaKind to unveil video, streaming and AI technologies at NAB
- FreeWheel releases H2 2023 Video Marketplace Report
- Wurl solution matches CTV ads with program context in real time
- Divitel to integrate UniqCast QoE assurance for German operator
- Mediacom launches Xumo Stream Box
- Viaccess-Orca to unveil AI-driven video optimization solutions at NAB
- Eutelsat selects ENENSYS DVB-SIS technology for UHD broadcasting in France
- Ease Live launches contextual on-stream advertising capability
- EMTEK deploys ENENSYS DVB-T2 distribution system in Indonesia
- Altimedia enables Blacknut gaming on operator set-top-boxes
- Warner Bros. Discovery to launch Max in Europe beginning May 21
- Endeavor Streaming powers Ski and Snowboard Federation's OTT offer
- US: 10% of streaming video services borrowed from someone else
- Tolka to show datacasting and advertising solutions at NAB Show 2024
- RDK and Wireless Broadband Alliance announce collaboration