All posts by Chris Tribbey

SMPTE Audience Hears Trusted Partner Network Details

The sheer amount of content being created today isn’t just putting stress on content creators, it’s also pushing the vendors servicing that content to their limits. And that me... More

EIDR Adds American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI), the nonprofit educational arts organization dedicated to preserving the heritage of motion pictures, has joined the Entertainment Identifier Regi... More

ThinkAnalytics Gives Tata Sky a Recommendations Boost (SCN)

Content discovery specialists ThinkAnalytics has announced a new partnership with Indian distributor Tata Sky, with the broadcast satellite TV provider using ThinkAnalytics to enab... More

PIX System Acquires Codex (MESA)

Entertainment collaboration tech firm PIX System announced April 25 that it’s acquiring production technology developer Codex, a move that allow the combined company to deliver �... More

RCN Looks to TiVo’s Next-Gen Platform (MESA)

Northeastern cable operator RCN Telecom Services announced April 24 that it will use TiVo’s Next-Gen Platform video solution for its digital TV customers, and expand that solutio... More

EY Launches Tech-Driven Wavespace Center

Ernst & Young (EY) has launched a new, immersive innovation experience in Atlanta, one geared toward helping companies transform their digital businesses, via design-based thinking... More

NAB 2019: Gracenote Digs Deep into Metadata

LAS VEGAS — Kamran Lotfi, director of product, search and discovery, for Gracenote, spends a lot of time thinking about how metadata can make content — and the user experience ... More

NAB 2019: Making the Case for M&E as ‘Critical Infrastructure’

LAS VEGAS — Nearly 100,000 people attended this month’s NAB Show. And every single day, approximately the same number of people in places like Russia, Iran, China and elsewhere... More

NAB 2019: MSI Touts New Watermarking Solution (CDSA)

James Whitebread, CTO for MarcoPolo Learning, a children’s STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) educational media company, was faced with a dilemma: how to pro... More

NAB 2019: MSI Touts New Watermarking Solution

LAS VEGAS — James Whitebread, CTO for MarcoPolo Learning, a children’s STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) educational media company, was faced with a dilem... More

NAB 2019: TiVo Eyes ATSC 3.0; Deluxe One: Automation Made Easy

LAS VEGAS — ATSC 3.0, the next-gen, over-the-air digital broadcast standard, is still in its early days. But already TiVo is looking at how to give owners of its hardware access ... More

NAB 2019: SHIFT Sees Uptake; Prime Focus Debuts Micro Services (SSN)

LAS VEGAS — Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) used the NAB Show to debut a suite of AI-led micro services, all custom-made for media and entertainment enterprises. (more…)... More

NAB 2019: Google Cloud Makes AI Deployment Easier, Partners with Viacom (SSN)

LAS VEGAS — Google Cloud announced both new partnerships and new tech advances at the NAB Show, with Viacom looking to Google to automated content tagging, discovery and intellig... More

NAB 2019: Google Cloud Makes AI Deployment Easier, Partners with Viacom

LAS VEGAS — Google Cloud announced both new partnerships and new tech advances at the NAB Show, with Viacom looking to Google to automated content tagging, discovery and intellig... More

NAB 2019: SHIFT Sees Uptake; Prime Focus Debuts Micro Services

LAS VEGAS — Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) used the NAB Show to debut a suite of AI-led micro services, all custom-made for media and entertainment enterprises. “Our AI-led ... More

NAB 2019: ThinkAnalytics, VDMS, Teradici, and More Show Off DAM Offerings

LAS VEGAS — Content workflows migrated to the cloud, automated metadata using artificial intelligence and machine learning, better recommendation engines geared toward attracting... More

NAB 2019: New Partners for Verizon Digital Media Services; Adobe Celebrates Content-Aware Fill for Video (SCN)

LAS VEGAS — Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) made two partnership announcements, with THEO Technologies and Iris.TV both sharing that they’ll integrate their technologies ... More

NAB 2019: Veritone Makes Connections; RSG Media Sees Value in Data; NAGRA Has a (Good) Problem (SCN)

The Veritone team enjoyed a week that saw NAB attendees watch how top media and entertainment companies (content creators, rights holders, producers, broadcasters, you name it) are... More

HITS Spring Returns to L.A. May 23, with ‘Tech Takes Talent’ Theme

Hollywood’s technology community is in a seismic state of change. New tech giant arrivals are filling their local talent pools while traditional studios are transforming and retr... More