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Tech market analysts Omdia reveal their latest findings that show a significant shift in the connected TV (CTV) market with hardware manufacturers increasingly capitalising on platform revenues rather than hardware sales. Companies such as Roku and Vizio are even accepting losses on hardware to focus on more lucrative revenue streams from their platforms.
In the two-part session titled “Mobile TV - Finally?”, Peter Siebert of IEEE BTS, Jordi Gimenez of 5G MAG and Thomas Stockhammer of Qualcomm explored the potential of 5G Broadcast technology in transforming media consumption.
We can now do the imaginative things that were once only fantasy by blending creativity with huge amounts of data and AI, according to Andy Hood, VP Emerging Technologies at WPP. Presenting at the IBC Conference, Hood described how WPP has integrated AI and generative AI into the very fabric of the company, via its cross-company WPP Open video platform, to enable people at every level of the organisation do what they need to do.
The latest version of Qvest’s clipbox is the first studio server to fully support a new renderless workflow powered by Web Render Engine (WRE) from Vidispine (Stand 7.A15). For newsroom editors and operators, this promises improved collaboration and reduced production delays.
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.
