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News
NHK to “mass produce” 8K content
SMPTE 2019: NHK developed its own 8K camera system after the Japanese broadcaster decided to shoot upcoming sports broadcasts in the country in the format. At SMPTE 2019, NHK spoke about the key elements of the format.
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News
Fibre optic arrives in London Underground & Apple TV+ forecasted $9bn revenue
21-25 Oct: Your guide to what’s happened this week in the media, entertainment and technology industry.
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Industry Trends
5G Today: Bavaria’s broadcast trials
5G offers great potential for media distribution of media content, with millions of smartphones and tablets as potential TV receivers for live and catch up services. That’s the view of the 5G Today group, which is conducting broadcast trials in Bavaria.
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Executive Interviews
Q&A: Matt Hill, Thinkbox
Effective measurement is one of the key challenges faced by the TV ad industry, but moves towards mass addressability will play a key role in its future, says Matt Hill of UK commercial broadcasters marketing body Thinkbox.
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Industry Trends
Ad management: Broadcast stability versus online chaos
Workflows for TV ads are a model of consistency compared to the wild west of digital, and the approach of traditional TV has a lot to teach the ‘new media’ of online video.
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News
First global women’s SVoD football service unveiled
Wnited, the world’s first global OTT service dedicated to women’s football, has been unveiled by Spring Media at Sportel Monaco.
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News
France OTT player Salto gains triple investment
France Télévisions, M6 and TF1 are set to triple the investment in jointly backed on-demand service Salto, according to reports.
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News
UK culture sec “open” to idea of scrapping BBC licence fee for subscription model
UK culture secretary Nicky Morgan has said she’d be open to the idea of ditching the BBC’s licence fee and replacing it with a subscription service.
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Industry Trends
IBC2019 technical papers: Encoding
Encoding was once again high up the agenda in the Technical Paper submissions at IBC2019.
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News
O2 launches 5G in UK & Quibi adds to content portfolio
14-18 Oct: Your guide to what’s happened this week in the media, entertainment and technology industry.
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Technical Papers
Live 360° video delivery
In this paper, MediaKind explores viewport-adaptive 360º video delivery.
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Industry Trends
CDNs: Innovation, higher bandwidth and interactivity
The advent of 4K and now 8K, as well as interactive applications that require sub-1 second latency, are obliging CDN service providers to enhance capacity and efficiency, writes David Davies.
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Technical Papers
State-of-the-art of extended reality in 5G networks
In this paper, Nokia Technologies, 2KPN/TNO, and Qualcomm explore use cases, architectural, protocols and codec aspects for XR systems over 5G networks and their state-of-the-art in 3GPP and MPEG standardization organizations.
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Technical Papers
DAB over IP
In this paper, IRT explores DAB and IP as technical solutions for radio streaming.
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Technical Papers
Real-time decoding and AR playback of the emerging MPEG video-based point cloud compression standard
In this paper, Nokia Technologies presents the world’s first implementation of the upcoming MPEG standard for video-based point cloud compression.
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Technical Papers
A study on the transmission scheme for the advanced ISDB-T and verification by large-scale field experiments in Japan
In this paper, NHK explores the development of advanced terrestrial broadcasting technology to transmit ultra-high-definition television signals.
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Technical Papers
Advanced video compression and rendering for highly immersive 8K+ applications
In this paper, Spin Digital Video Technologies, PSNC and Ars Electronica Futurelab join to explore a set of tools designed to simplify the distribution, playback and adaptation of high-quality immersive content for new immersive environments.
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Technical Papers
5G media streaming architecture
In this paper, Ericsson, TNO & KPN and Qualcomm join to explore how the new 3GPP 5G Media Service Architecture (5GMSA) supports unicast downlink media distribution and uplink streaming.
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Technical Papers
5G for broadcasters – new opportunities for distribution and content
In this paper, the BBC presents the results of the emerging requirements for future 5G deployments.
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Technical Papers
The emerging MPEG-5 EVC standard - Applications, technology and results
In this paper, Divideon, Samsung, Futurewei, Qualcomm all explore the MPEG-5 Essential Video Coding (EVC) standard to facilitate rapid deployment and widespread use of the standard throughout the media industry.