For some time, many people in the media industry have been wondering how much longer satellite could remain a major player now that the era of 4K is upon us and there is such a rapid proliferation of channels. There just isn’t the throughput for these new services on the current generation of satellites, so…
The past few years have seen the rise of many new industries – many of them recognising that “one size fits all” is no longer a workable marketing approach. Increasingly, we want those who supply us to recognise us as individuals with needs that are unique to us. We want bespoke holidays. We want customised…
The radical change in viewing habits that has overtaken the media industry means that fewer and fewer people are watching scheduled broadcast TV together at home in small groups of friends or family. In fact the downward curve in this kind of ‘traditional’ viewing is so sharp that it’s possible to imagine it disappearing…
For many years before MPEG-DASH came on to the scene, there was a three-way tussle between Smooth Streaming, Apple HLS and Adobe HDS, all of which are very similar in technology, and all of which use http as the protocol. But despite the similarities, three standards meant that there had to be three different players.…
Bergen, Norway, 22 June 2016 Vimond today announced that it had been selected by Australia’s second-largest telecommunications company, Optus, to build and deliver the technical infrastructure – including content ingestion, preparation and distribution – which will enable Optus customers to view English Premier League (EPL) football games over the coming three seasons. Optus’…
BERGEN, Norway ― 13 June 2016 As European football fans wait in anticipation for the start of Euro 2016, many broadcasters covering the event are gearing up to deliver the most intensive online coverage of the action that the tournament has ever enjoyed. As the most advanced solution for extracting content for online distribution…
The fundamental premise of technology is that it gives us leverage. A tool gives us more power, more effectiveness, more precision, more time. But there are few tools or technologies that do this for us without some effort on our part. Just buying a lathe doesn’t make a man a good woodworker. Buying an…
ANGACOM 2016 Bridge Technologies Co AS Booth V20 (Hall 10.1) Bridge Technologies to Focus on QoE, QoS at ANGA COM OSLO, Norway — 30 May 2016 At this year’s ANGA COM (Hall 10.1 – Booth V20) Bridge Technologies is focusing on the company’s award-winning Objective QoE with QoS monitoring technology,…
Vienna, Austria — May 30 2016 At the Archives at Risk conference (Dublin: 1-3 June) Jean-Christophe Kummer, managing partner of NOA, will present a paper on the work his company has been doing with the Austrian government to secure funding for media archiving initiatives in developing countries. NOA is the leading global provider…
By Simen Frostad, Chairman of Bridge Technologies If anyone has written a history of work, it will no doubt have a prominent theme: the way machines have allowed people to do progressively more and be more productive. The human race isn’t the only species to use tools, but we are the only species that…