Figuring out the optimal configuration of 5G for mobile broadcast is a current preoccupation of the broadcast industry. Key learnings are expected from an EU-funded project that involves the participation of tech outfit LiveU.
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Catena: Unifying Device Control Across the Media Industry
Catena is a word that means, ‘connected series or chain,’ and is also the appropriate name for the broadcast industry’s answer to a problem that has only grown more acute with the rise of IP, cloud, and hybrid workflows: fragmented, insecure, and proprietary device control. Developed under SMPTE’s Rapid Industry Solutions Open Services Alliance (RIS-OSA) and recently introduced into SMPTE’s formal standards process, Catena aims to deliver ‘a single secure protocol for control of media devices and services,’ providing a unified, vendor and platform agnostic control plane.

LiveU’s Steve Wind-Mozley on acquisition of “complementary and adjacent” Actus Digital
The addition of Actus Digital to the LiveU family is expected to enhance AI innovation, increase appeal to “mission critical” environments, and assist with customers’ digital transformation, writes David Davies.

Winning combination: How cost and reliability still dictate the future of playout
Red Bee’s Richard Kydd discusses the future of television playout, finding the right tech stack, and the fundamental importance of reliability, cost and delivery.

Diversity in streaming: Time to progress beyond surface-level efforts
While the media industry’s commitment to diversity is growing, too many efforts remain ‘surface level’, limiting the pace of progress, says Deepali Narsiker of Women in Streaming Media.

ProAV and broadcast: When worlds collide
Vizrt’s Jeremy Morris takes a stroll down memory lane to discuss some of the crucial events that helped accelerate the convergence of broadcast and proAV. John Maxwell Hobbs reports.