The video processing, storage, playout and advertising vendor has been demonstrating the impact AI can have for TV content providers. The technology can be used to automate FAST channel scheduling. AI will automatically detect live sport highlights and create clips for a highlights timeline. It can also be used to clone commentator voices in multiple…
Creating subtitles (translated speech-to-text intended for overseas audiences without hearing impediments), closed-captions (accessible speech-to-text for people who are deaf or hard of hearing) or subtitles suitable for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, is getting easier for media owners thanks to AI. Interra Systems, one of the companies driving advances in captioning (the…
Ateme has been showing how Pay TV providers can reduce cost and carbon from unicast streaming with a solution that automatically increases compression on popular programming by taking CPU capacity away from channels that currently have small audiences – with the result that the lower-audience shows are compressed more lightly. Picture quality is not affected.…
Viaccess-Orca is field-testing an AI model that can scan the next two weeks of a programme guide, predict the CPU loads needed for the video processing across the shows, and provision sufficient cloud capacity to cope with peak workloads, then provide the operations team with a guide to what they can expect or automatically provision…
Interactive graphical overlays that enrich sports with team line-ups, match and player statistics, instant video highlights, polls and much more can boost viewing times. They also create new opportunities for sponsorship and advertising. This value has been recognized by the creation of a new rights category for LALIGA football coverage, with that innovation contributing to…
Demanding 4K television and live streaming were two factors that drove Comcast to create a CDN that uses Qwilt’s Open Edge platform with Open Caching. The U.S. giant joins 180+ service providers who are part of a federated global CDN model that slashes bandwidth demands between the service provider core and consumers. Content owners can…
A test at one major U.S. service provider showed that 70-80% of the streaming video produced, covering all channels and all bit rate profiles for those channels, was not being watched. This waste of CPU resource can be removed with just-in-time video processing, while the cost of streaming from the cloud can be reduced by…
Streaming tech provider Deltatre says media companies in the early stages of their OTT journey can now have access to software previously available only to the largest and most well-funded industry players, following the launch of its Core, Professional and Enterprise packages for the D3 VOLT OTT platform. This all-in-one streaming solution features end-user apps,…
A report from technology analysts Caretta Research says video companies can reduce the cost of interactive live streaming (ILS) by 74% through distributed streaming infrastructure. The study argues that established streamers need to deploy ILS as part of their strategy to create new revenue, but says regular cloud video solutions and centralized streaming infrastructure fail…
As part of its new Watch Prompts dataset to help video service providers improve content discovery, Gracenote can offer analogies based on thematically similar content. An example offered is for ‘Barbie’, which could be described as “Legally Blonde meets The Lego Movie”. This simple yet potentially powerful idea can harness either human editors, machine learning…
Comcast is leveraging edge compute technology to put more computing power closer to consumers to deliver a better Internet experience for applications like streaming and gaming. The service provider is also looking to develop a standardized platform for providers to distribute their content across its network. This development harnesses Qwilt’s Open Edge platform, with the…
Michelle Munson, CEO and Co-Founder at Eluvio, has given a cost reduction figure for BVOD streaming, when using the Eluvio Content Fabric, that screams ‘industry inflection point’. As the company focuses more on the D2C streaming market, we await the deals that could act as supporting evidence for her assertion that it is a no-brainer…
