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.
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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.
Secret Level: Storyboard to screen without ever picking up a camera
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.
