Blake Bassett, Vice-President of Product at streaming service Tubi, will be among the panellists for the IBC conference session ‘Mythbusting AI: Demonstrating the Impact on the Bottom Line’, on 14 September.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Like it or not, we are potentially only months away from the first AI-generated feature film, and Jason Zada of Secret Level could be the one to deliver it.
AI adoption, skills and training, systems integration and sustainability were just a handful of the issues that experts from the media and entertainment industry felt we should be talking about more.
Rohit Nagarajan, CEO at Vizrt points to cloud and AI as two technologies leading the charge in terms of both innovation and adoption. “Cloud is one that has really come of age,” he says. “All of the underlying technical challenges are being ironed out and we see more and more customers of ours looking to adopt cloud, and I think it’s a good coming together of maturity and cost.”
There’s no escaping the fact that AI is transforming many business verticals, and the media and entertainment industry is no exception. Experts agree that some applications are not yet mature, but there is much transformative opportunity, especially in general automation and AI enhanced metadata and subtitle generation. However, cloud and hybrid cloud economics are also a key theme, with increased cloud adoption driving broadcast workflows, as is the ongoing transition to IP.
