Quality of experience for video viewing is critical for today’s brands trying to make the most of their content. That’s why, as the 4K TV market is expected to reach $380.9 billion by 2025, many broadcasters are looking to stream their video in 4K, HDR, and Dolby Vision. The problem is that many brands find…
LIVE: IBC Edition – VidTech sessions for all in the OTT industry Bitmovin’s next Virtual Event Series Live: IBC Edition, which includes content applicable to all regions across the world, is taking place between September 8th – 24th. This content-rich virtual event will focus on how to innovatively reduce the cost of video distribution, app…
By Joshua Shulman, Alan Ogilvie, Ali Hodjat This article and video series, presented by Bitmovin, Friend MTS, and Intertrust, covers how to secure the delivery of your OTT Service content from origination all the way through to the end user via browser-based players. Following the best practices we outline, will ensure that you are protecting your content and revenue…
The OTT and video streaming industry is a fast-paced environment with countless variables that can and will affect your performance, viewer experience, and bottom-line. Perhaps most commonly – a video streaming platform might get hit with an unexpectedly viral piece of content, from breaking news to user-generated content (consider any trending “video challenge”) to a…
Streaming Wars: Someone’s bound to win…right? The search term “Streaming Wars” took off in late 2015 with the near-simultaneous announcements that Hulu (currently owned by The Walt Disney Company) was under consideration for purchase by Time Warner (now owned by WarnerMedia and operating the name WarnerMedia) – who was also investing heavily in the development…
How to gain maximum operational flexibility As most people already know, a strategy based on “on the fly” or “just-in-time” releases is one of the first stepping stones to a failing business model. Successful organizations aim to create repeatable, measurable, and (somewhat) flexible strategies. As video technology engineers will tell you – this is even…
Super-Resolution: What’s the buzz and why does it matter? Super-resolution has been gaining steam recently. Many companies, secretly and not-so-secretly, have been incorporating this technology into their workflow. Most notably: Samsung has started advertising this feature in their latest flagship phone camera’s – boasting 64MP cameras that use super-resolution for zooming in during the photo…
This post is a follow-up to our Video Technology Trends 2020 blog post from early February. View the original post here The early months of 2020 have quickly faded into a blur behind the reality-shattering global crisis that was (and continues to be) the COVID-19 pandemic. In January, very few individuals would have predicted how…
When it comes to back-end video app management, there are five primary metrics that can make or break your business at any stage once your service has launched: Today we’re covering the only metric that everyone in the video streaming industry will agree is A) the most important metric you need to monitor at all…
Where our journey to Encoding Excellence began Many of the basic concepts of video coding such as transform-coding (transcoding), motion estimation and compensation were developed in the 1970s and 1980s. MPEG-1, the base coding standard was developed and implemented industry-wide in the early 1990s. Today, compression and decompression mechanisms are the drivers behind the delivery…
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