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Monitoring innovations in post-production, head-end, streaming, OTT, second-screen, UHDTV, multiscreen strategies & tools
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Sochi Games to Set Record for Live and VOD Streaming

Sochi Games to Set Record for Live and VOD Streaming | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

Adobe, NBCU, Elemental, Deltatre, LiveU, and more are readying streaming platforms that will deliver coverage to desktops and mobile devices around the globe.


Four years ago according to the IOC there was a defining moment in Olympic broadcasting history. Vancouver was the first Winter Games to be fully embraced on digital media platforms where digital coverage accounted for around half of the overall broadcast output.


Globally, on official rights-holding broadcasters’ internet and mobile platforms, there were more than 265 million video views and in excess of 1.2 billion page views during the games. There were also approximately 6,000 hours of 2010 coverage on mobile phone platforms.


Digital coverage from Sochi will surpass this, with many more broadcasters drawing on the clear consumer demand from London 2012 for any time, any device viewing.


The IOC places such draconian restraints on rights holders and anyone working for them to report involvement in the Olympics, which extends to technology contractors, that it's tricky to unearth details on this story. With that caveat, here are some of the large-scale video streaming activities set to go live from Sochi at the end of this week.

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Ericsson demonstrates live UHDTV contribution at EBU technical seminar

Ericsson demonstrates live UHDTV contribution at EBU technical seminar | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

Ericsson recently demonstrated how live UHDTV could be enabled via a next-generation delivery system during the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Production Technology Seminar in Geneva, Switzerland. The demo, focused on interoperability and using Ericsson technology to receive an off-air feed of a 4:2:0 file-based system and receive and decode as 4K UHDTV, showed how high quality fast moving images can be captured for sports and live action broadcasting, which are seen as a key driver for the uptake of UHDTV.

 

Central to both parts of the 4K UHDTV demo was the ‘Simulsync' synchronisation technique, the technology used by Ericsson to accurately synchronise the left and right channels of 3D contribution feeds. In this case, the UHDTV 4Kp25 content feed was split into four 1080p25 quadrants, synchronously encoded into MPEG-4 AVC and transmitted. Four receivers, in phase lock, decoded the received bitstream to reproduce the 4Kp25 content feed.

Nicolas Weil's insight:

4:2:2 + 10 bit needed

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NTT Products information in 2013 NAB SHOW : 4K/HD HEVC CODEC for Video Streaming and more [PR]

NTT Products information in 2013 NAB SHOW : 4K/HD HEVC CODEC for Video Streaming and more [PR] | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

4K/HD HEVC CODEC for Video Streaming :

We exhibit some types of our HEVC Encoder. These achieve UHD Video Streaming, HD mobile video streaming, and live streaming also, because of high compression efficiency and stable CBR of our HEVC encoders.

- High Quality and Stable CBR Software HEVC Encoder SDK responded up to 4K

- HD Real-time Software HEVC Encoder

- Real-time FPGA HEVC Encoder, this is the first step to the ASIC Encoder

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Interesting demos in perspective !

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