IBC2024 is witnessing the debut of Tata Comms Media, the new unified brand that combines all Tata Communications’ media and entertainment entities into one business unit, including The Switch, now Tata Comms Media’s production services solution.
Netflix and Airoha Technology, a subsidiary of MediaTek, have announced a strategic partnership to support seamless Netflix integration for set-top boxes used by operators worldwide. This collaboration aims to accelerate time to market and foster innovation, creating new opportunities for operators to enhance their service offerings with Netflix.
Users can experience new cloud orchestration capabilities for software-defined contribution and distribution, claims GlobalM for its advanced IP gateway technology.
Linear Acoustic, a member of the Telos Alliance, is boosting its AERO-series with three new hardware audio processors. The AERO.20, AERO.200 and AERO.2400 all deliver integrated loudness control, upmixing, Nielsen and Verance Aspect watermark encoding, Dolby AC-3 encoding, SAP audio, downmixing, and automated EAS and text-to-speech audio insertion.
The ability to automatically generate and schedule FAST channels is a key focus for ThinkAnalytics this year, as service providers continue to seek ways to monetise their content.
Total UK television production sector revenues fell by £392m (8.4%) to £3.61bn in 2023, according to producers alliance Pact’s annual Census.
AI is barely out of the box, but it is already being applied in action to super-scale fan engagement of sports. A leader in this regard is Olympic Broadcasting Services, which was able to leverage the tens of billions of data points collected across the Paris Games in real-time to serve highlights clips, reports and commentary dissected across viewers in more than 200 countries.
In today’s issue a trio of CTOs explore how the industry can unlock new realms of operational efficiency, content delivery and audiences globally; WPP Andy Hood explains why the future lies in human-machine collaboration; and the issue of disinformation in news is debated. We also share all the latest news from the IBC showfloor.
At IBC, Sony has introduced two 4K handheld professional camcorders with AI-based subject recognition autofocus, tracking, and auto framing. The HXR-NX800 NXCAM and PXW-Z200 XDCAM have 1in CMOS sensors, a new 20x optical zoom lens, variable neutral-density (ND) filters, and assignable lens rings.
With the introduction of a batch of new apps at IBC, the LawoHOME platform now hosts nine processing apps, and the company is promising more to come in the weeks following IBC.
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