Making Sense of Big Data in the Blink of an Eye
With consumer viewing habits changing rapidly, traditional methods of labelling and logging metadata no longer seem to be keeping pace.
With consumer viewing habits changing rapidly, traditional methods of labelling and logging metadata no longer seem to be keeping pace.
While the upgrade across MBN's facilities is ongoing, Alhurra's Dubai office was among the first to be transformed.The first thing that catches your eye as you...
Simon Trudelle is Senior Director Product Marketing at NAGRA.As industries across the globe harness the power of data and AI, the pay-TV industry has until now...
Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2019, held in Las Vegas, served as the launch site for a series of transformative technologies and drew a huge audience from around the world. With...
More than 250 buyers from 35 countries attended the market, and engaged in 845 meetings with the exhibitors.The Dubai International Content Market (DICM), formerly called MYCONTENT,...
With per capita consumption of social media across the MENA among the highest in the globe, the second panel discussion on OTT and social media made for compelling listening at...
The IP DiagramAs media operations continue their migration from baseband SDI to packet-based Internet Protocol (IP) workflows, operators and system engineers are rethinking their approach to...
A lively exchange on cloud adoption and the deployment of AI in broadcast workflows ensured that the post-lunch tech panel had the rapt attention of attendees at the 2018 ASBU...
From having a fleet of sports cars in the studio to placing the presenter at the heart of a raging tornado, studios are not restricted by space or geography. Solutions...
From left: Stephen Hart Dyke, Professional Imaging/B2B Product Marketing Manager with Paul Atkinson, European Product Specialist, Professional Video, Imaging Technologies & Communications Group for Canon Europe,...
Jon Morgan is CEO of Object Matrix.AI search will monetise archives in new ways and AI data management will move data and data processing algorithms to...
From full-frame to anamorphic and vintage looks, cinematographers have the widest choice in format, equipment and lens to tell a story, writes Les Zellan of Cooke Optics.In the early part of...
The show will be hosted by Cyrus Sahukar.Distribution company for TV18 and Viacom18, IndiaCast, is launching a family quiz show Brain Wagon in the Middle East....
Chairman and Founder of Shock ME, Raed Zidan.Raed Zidan entered the radio scene at a time when critics were questioning the industrys future. The Chairman of...
Salloum El Dahdaah, CTO, ITWorksME.Lebanon-headquartered OTT solutions provider ITWorksME speaks to BroadcastPro ME on designing, customising and deploying an online platform for Saudi Broadcasting Corporation in...
Abdelrahim Suleiman (second from right), Director General of ASBU accompanies the Minister at the opening of the exhibition floor.The Arab States Broadcasting Union demonstrated unprecedented cloud...
From left: Aditya Verma, Senior Legal Counsel at OSN; Omar Obeidat, Partner and Head of Intellectual Property at law firm Al Tamimi & Co; Waleed Mahboub,...
From left: Alex Borland, Head of Media Sales EMEA at Ericsson; Dr Naser Refaat, CTO of Rotana Media Group; Petr Peterka, CTO of Verimatrix; and Mike Barley,...
Ron Downey, CEO, Massive Interactive.Ron Downey, CEO at Massive, identifies the stand-out OTT trends in the market and urges operators to deliver a tailored experience to...
German-based Turkish channel YOL TV has chosen media services provider MX1 as its distribution service provider from June 1. MX1 delivers the channel via an SES satellite and provides the...
Glodina Lostanlen, CMO, Imagine Communications.New artificial intelligence capabilities will dig deeper into the decision-making realm freeing the industry to create engaging content, writes Glodina Lostanlen of...
Will Waters is Senior Director for IP Workflow Strategy at NewTek.Large investments in SDI core routers and other edge devices serve a legitimate function, writes Will...
Dr Eng Umberto Asti, Vice President of ARET Video and Audio Engineering.BroadcastPro ME speaks to the team at systems integrator ARET that custom-built the 3G HD...
Raed Zidan, the founder and co-owner of Shock Middle East.Shock Middle East based in Dubais Media City, has launched its third radio station.Hala 95.6 FM, Shock...
Anthonypillai Stanislous, Technical Manager MEA at Rohde & Schwarz.Transitioning from a traditional AVC workflow may seem daunting for video providers streaming in multiple formats, but the...
"Diamond Bou Abboud, who plays a defence lawyer in the film, has beautiful fair skin that caught bounce from everywhere," recalls Belal Hibri who used DaVinci...
Award-winning filmmakers and a celebrity YouTuber join the Canon panel to discuss factors that determine their choice of camera.An estimated 28% of the Middle East population is aged between 15...
While security issues linger and the fear of job losses lurks outside boardrooms, participants at a roundtable hosted by BroadcastPro ME in conjunction with cloud specialist Amagi, agreed that cloud...
Keith Lissak is Senior Director, M&ESolutions Marketing at Quantum.Current data management technology has made multipoint content synchronisation a set-and-forget convenience, writes Keith Lissak, Senior Director, M&E Solutions...
BroadcastPro ME visited the Shure headquarters in Chicago recently and came back with a deeper understanding of what goes into the making of wireless systems, and the new spectrum challenges...
Organised by BroadcastPro ME in conjunction with Rohde & Schwarz, the roundtable was titled: IP-based broadcast contribution revolution or evolution?IP has been around for a...
Hasan Sayed Hasan, MD and Founder of Master Media and Chairman of the Arab HDTV and Beyond Group making opening remarks.The annual Arab HDTV and Beyond...
Robert Lakos, Founder of Deleel TVA $7 set-top box has enough logging and reporting capabilities via 3G modem or QR code to offer insights into the...
Nick Fitzgerald is Chairman of TV2UMoving beyond the IP address as a means of identifying a viewer or their location is now possible. In addition to...
OSN has announced a lineup of television series and films for the new year.On OSN First HBO HD, The X-Files returns with the newly reinstated FBI agents Mulder and Scully continuing the...
The ballroom at Habtoor Grand was packed as industry professionals gathered to hear some of the most distinguished voices on the MENA broadcast landscape come together for the ASBU BroadcastPro...
The panel discussion on internet video at the annual ASBU BroadcastPro ME Selevision Summit 2017 focused on profitability, partnerships, premium content and the scourge of piracy.Since the pre-YouTube era of...
We were promised a revolution, opened Peter Ennis, Senior Vice President, Global Services, Delivery and Customer Support, Avid. The 20-year broadcast industry veteran had flown in from New Zealand to...
In cooperation with Turkish company Polimeks, Broadcast Solutions GmbH has delivered a fleet to Turkmenistan TV, consisting of 16 vehicles (4 sets) in two phases of construction. Each set of...
Glodina Lostanlen, CMO, Imagine Communications.There is growing understanding across the industry that we are on the brink of a massive change, a huge disruption in the...
Over-the-top (OTT) distribution, which is of course IP-based, is quickly becoming the preferred video delivery method for millions of consumers, and a state-of-the-art OTT distribution operation is now a business...
Roger Franklin.The secret to better personalisation and ad insertion for OTT platforms lies in the implementation of an efficient metadata management system that provides accurate viewing...
Glodina Lostanlen, CMO, Imagine Communications.Terms like cloud-native and cloud-enabled are being used increasingly within broadcast and often interchanged by people who assume they mean the same thing....
Goran Appelquist, Chief Technology officer at Edgeware.Does a dedicated TV CDN deliver the best value when serving regional TV markets like the Middle East, or is...
With growing content, there is a growing need to store these assets safely. Sony's Nabil El Madbak says optical discs are a cost-effective and safe storage optionWe all know content...
Adam Nightingale isVP Sales EMEA at Accedo.A dynamic user experience can increase conversion, engage the user, reduce churn and ultimately increase revenue, says Adam Nightingale TV service...
Rodrigo Fernandes.Operators worldwide have recognised the need to build an OTT service, and have started down that road. Rodrigo Fernandes of Irdeto has some dos and don'ts...
Samir Zehani.In the current highly competitive and complex media landscape, media service providers can help broadcasters find their audience by providing them with technical, marketing and communication...
As the broadcast landscape continues to evolve, infrastructural needs of broadcast facilities have changed drastically. A critical part of this infrastructure is the cable. Josh Simons takes us through what...
Onur Ozdemir is Azure Media and Apps Lead for Microsoft Middle East & Africa.Multi-device delivery allows content owners to build audiences, but how do you protect ownership?Audiences...
Dr Glodina Connan.Live production facilities, despite representing the final touches of an all-IP overhaul, will make the move to what is widely seen as a more agile...
Tim Felstead.Although there have been one-off events produced in 4K, the technology is still far from ready to be adopted for mainstream broadcast. Tim Felstead discusses...
Adam Lewis, CEO of Voddler Group.A key aspect of online video streaming is the Quality of Experience (QoE), which is not governed by a single entity...
Andrew Wajs.There needs to be greater awareness that cybercrime has evolved in recent years. In essence, the attack surface is now much bigger, making platform security...
The broadcast industry has changed dramatically over the last decade, even just over the last few years. While the viewer has certainly had a lot to do with it ...
Todays IP technology offers a best-of-all-worlds combination of increasing performance with decreasing costs, says Brad PriceWhile the transition from analogue to digital is nearly complete in all realms of professional audio,...
Tape is almost obsolete and the move to tapeless workflows is urgent and compelling in today's fast-changing broadcast ecosystem Technology in the broadcast industry is undergoing a transformation in a number...
Ken Tankel is Product Manager at Linear Acoustic.Embracing scalable technology like AoIP will become increasingly critical if organisations want to seamlessly accommodate emerging audio requirements and...
Paul Wallis, Director of Sales, Middle East, Imagine Communications.The IT industry is massive compared with the broadcast industry broadcasters would be foolish not to take...
Understanding the dynamics of the media player, and how to efficiently integrate metadata into live streams, will help broadcasters elevate the streaming radio experience and remain competitiveThe proliferation of digital...