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Re-think on the cards for Asia-Pacific’s pay-TV industry

2018 Asia-Pacific Pay-TV Innovation examines key challenges facing pay-TV industry in the region and how these challenges can be addressed Driven by the proliferation of high-quality over-the-top (OTT) services and widespread piracy, the pay-TV industry in Asia-Pacific is experiencing significant challenges, said the 2018 Asia-Pacific Pay-TV Innovation Forum.

News & Events

A record World Cup, in more ways than one

While millions of fans around the world glued themselves to their TV sets for the 2008 FIFA World Cup, many also enjoyed the live action from Russia via mobile streaming BY SHAWN LIEW While England eventually failed in a valiant attempt to win the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the Three Lions’ — as the England football team is known — performance in the semi-finals thrilled UK audiences, keeping them glued to their screens.

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Surge in OTT traffic highlights importance of CDN infrastructure

For streaming of live events such as the 2018 FIFA World Cup on OTT services, TV delivery networks have to be equipped with a scalable content delivery network (CDN) workflow to manage peaks in their streaming traffic, suggests Edgeware Edgeware has reported that many of its customers have experienced a doubling of their peak CDN streaming traffic on match days during the 2018 FIFA World Cup football tournament.

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Bitmovin enhances content delivery for iflix

The Malaysia-headquartered VoD service has adopted Bitmovin’s encoding technology for its video delivery iflix, a subscription video-on-demand (VoD) service, is using Bitmovin’s encoding technology to enable the delivery of TV shows, movies and sports in HD over low-bandwidth mobile networks across the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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Harmonic collaborates with Veygo to accelerate OTT video delivery

The joint software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution has been deployed by AMTV, an Indonesian streaming service provider Harmonic has teamed up with Veygo, a provider of multi-screen user experience software solutions for the media industry, to create an end-to-end software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for over-the-top (OTT) video delivery.

IABM releases Supply Trends Report

The 2018 report covers six months leading to December 2017, and points out financial data on the broadcast and media supply sector drawn from public and private sources Year-on-year sales in the broadcast and media technology market grew by 1.

News & Events

Nifty Fox leaping over fragmenting TV landscape

Fragmented TV landscape calls for new content creation and distribution methods Consumers today do not care how they get their favourite content, as long as they can enjoy high-quality productions, compelling narratives, and their favourite user-generated content in a way that is convenient and cost-effective to access.

Cloud

Harmonic’s VOS SW Cluster accelerates OTT and IPTV delivery

As the newest member to Harmonic’s VOS family, VOS SW Cluster leverages advancements in software and cloud technology, enhancing media companies’ OTT and IPTV workflows Harmonic has developed VOS SW Cluster, a software application that is aimed at addressing the need for increased agility and adaptability for over-the-top (OTT) and IPTV deployments.

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Mediacorp expands China presence with Youku partnership

Some Mediacorp’s titles — including Patisserie Fighting, The Dream Makers 2, and When Duty Calls — will be available on the Chinese OTT service platform starting this second quarter The content distribution division of Mediacorp, Singapore’s terrestrial broadcaster, has sealed a digital rights deal for its dramas with Youku, an online video and streaming service platform based in China.

VIEWS & INTERVIEWS

When is a broadcaster not a broadcaster?

By Peter MacAvock A less attractive way of asking the same question might be: “When is an over-the-top (OTT) provider a broadcaster?

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Alchimie and Unified Streaming team up to enhance video streaming

Having worked with Alchimie since 2015, Unified Streaming’s Unified Origin webserver plug-in has enabled Alchimie to provide streaming services to its customers Alchimie, a digital content distributor headquartered in Paris, has extended its partnership with Unified Streaming, a company that provides creation of video streaming technologies for multiple platforms and devices.

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TV Everywhere for today’s disparate viewers

As the shift away from linear TV viewing continues unabated, TV operators need to ensure that their content reaches their audiences anywhere and everywhere.

Distribution

Monarch HD streams FIU’s events to Facebook Live

The installation of Matrox’s Monarch AVC/H.

VIEWS & INTERVIEWS

A time for reflection

By Dr Ahmad Zaki Mohd Salleh, group general manager, engineering, Media Prima Everyone is talking about staying relevant nowadays.

Cloud

Net neutrality no more

The FCC’s decision to repeal net neutrality in the US has re-opened debate on fair competition and access to content and services on the Internet We were not living in a digital dystopia in the years leading up to 2015, wrote Aji Pai, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in a Twitter post last April.