All posts by Chris Tribbey
NAB Show: MESA Members to Showcase Connected TV, OTT and App Solutions
Globecast will be touting its new Cloud Channel Playout solution for 4K Ultra High-Definition (UHD), HD and standard-definition (SD) channels at NAB. The new media management servi... More
NAGRA, MTM Gear Up for ‘Pay-TV Innovation Forum’ (SCN)
Starting this month and running through September, content protection and multiscreen TV solutions firm NAGRA and research firm MTM will produce their third annual “Pay-TV Innova... More
NAB Show 2018: Cyber Security & Content Protection Summit Hits Las Vegas April 8
The Cyber Security & Content Protection Summit, produced by the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) and the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA), c... More
TiVo: Price Remains a Pay TV Problem
Nearly 87% of consumers who cut the pay TV cord during the fourth quarter of 2017 did because of price, a 6.6% year-over-year increase and the highest rate of price dissatisfaction... More
Digital Bedrock to Archive, Preserve Soderbergh’s ‘Logan Lucky,’ ‘Unsane’
Los Angeles-based digital preservation service Digital Bedrock has announced an agreement with director Steven Soderbergh and his company Fingerprint Releasing, which will see Digi... More
Kroll Acquired by Advisory Firm Duff & Phelps (CDSA)
Risk management and cybersecurity solutions firm Kroll has been acquired by global advisory firm Duff & Phelps, the companies announced March 13, with Duff & Phelps picking up Krol... More
NAGRA, MTM Gear Up for ‘Pay-TV Innovation Forum’
Starting this month and running through September, content protection and multiscreen TV solutions firm NAGRA and research firm MTM will produce their third annual “Pay-TV Innova... More
Kroll Acquired by Advisory Firm Duff & Phelps
Risk management and cybersecurity solutions firm Kroll has been acquired by global advisory firm Duff & Phelps, the companies announced March 13, with Duff & Phelps picking up Krol... More
Smart Content West: MarkLogic’s Turner Links Data to Smart Content
LOS ANGELES — For Matt Turner, CTO of MarkLogic, the advances of smart content have come more quickly than he could have dreamed, with more and more media and entertainment firms... More
Smart Content West: NeuLion’s Crawford Stresses Streaming Data
LOS ANGELES — In 2017, NeuLion managed video for 63,000 live events, delivering more than 300 live linear channels, covering everything from ingest and encoding, to monetization,... More
Smart Content West: The Power of Azure AI
LOS ANGELES — For Martin Wahl, principal program manager for Microsoft’s Azure Media Services, a big part of his job is speaking to both audiences and customers about how to us... More
WiTH Workshop: Tackling Unconscious Bias
LOS ANGELES — Kelly Watson, co-founder and managing partner of Orange Grove Consulting, which specializes in women’s leadership programs, sees a two-fold problem when it comes ... More
HBO, NeuLion to Bring Data Insights to Smart Content East
The Media & Entertainment Services Alliances (MESA) Smart Content Summit to the Microsoft Technology Center in New York City March 8, offering the latest industry data initiati... More
Elegant Workflow: Helping Creatives Confront Technological Hurdles
Dave Ginsberg, host and principal of Elegant Workflow Consulting, started the company with a simple mantra: technology needs to “get out of the way” in order to empower creativ... More
Smart Content West: Data Experts Tackle AI Integration
LOS ANGELES — At the Feb. 27 Smart Content Summit Martin Wahl, Principal Program Manager, Azure Media Services, Microsoft, was beyond pleased that his presentation — “Microso... More
NAGRA: From Portable Recorders to a Content Protection Powerhouse
Switzerland-based NAGRA — the digital TV division of the Kudelski Group — got its start nearly 70 years ago as the brand name of portable professional audio recorders. Today it... More
Smart Content West: AWS, Azure Share AI Successes
LOS ANGELES — With the sheer amount of video being produced today, extracting meaningful metadata out of the content may seem like a daunting task. That’s where machine lear... More
Media Data, Asset Management Topics Headline Smart Content Summit East
The Media & Entertainment Services Alliances (MESA) Smart Content Summit to the Microsoft Technology Center in New York City March 8, offering the latest industry data initiatives ... More
Smart Content West: Metadata Gurus Share State of Standards
LOS ANGELES — When it comes to metadata and the standards around it for the media and entertainment industry, 2018 could mark a major sea-change for the industry, according to Ki... More
