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The magazine for global video www.csimagazine.com TV Broadcast • Streaming • Satellite • Cable • Hybrid The leading media for video delivery technology April 2019 8K TV Interactive Interactive storytelling ATSC 3.0 ATSC Apple SVOD analysis SVOD Apple Streaming is entering a new phase June 2016 • OTT, VoD, Cloud TV, Cable, Satellite, IPTV, DTT, IoT • The latest news, views and features 1_Cover.indd 1 19/03/2019 10:59:19 EXHIBITION & CONFERENCE 4 - 6 JUNE 2019 WHERE BROADBAND Cologne / Germany MEETS www.angacom.de CONTENT REGISTER ONLINE NOW! 21,700 2,300 500 PARTICIPANTS CONFERENCE EXHIBITORS 47 % INTERNATIONAL ATTENDEES FROM 37 COUNTRIES BROADBAND TELEVISION ONLINE ANGA Services GmbH Nibelungenweg 2 · 50996 Köln / Germany www.angacom.de Tel. +49 (0)221 / 99 80 81-0 · [email protected] Contents TV Broadcast • Streaming • Satellite • Cable • Hybrid 20 Interactive TV The leading media for video delivery technology The magazine for global video Will Bandersnatch popularise branching www.csimagazine.com TV Broadcast • Streaming • Satellite • Cable • Hybrid The leading media for video delivery technology April 2019 narratives and storytelling? 8K TV Interactive Interactive storytelling 21 Live OTT sports Editor ATSC 3.0 ATSC How to improve the Quality of Experience Goran Nastic Apple SVOD analysis Apple Commercial 27 Blockchain in DRM Streaming is entering a new phase Camilla Capece June 2016 • OTT, VoD, Cloud TV, Cable, Satellite, IPTV, DTT, IoT • The latest news, views and features The role it can play in future digital rights 1_Cover.indd 1 19/03/2019 10:59:19 Daniel Torelli 05 News & analysis 28 ATSC 3.0 Design and production Is it in danger of missing the boat? Matt Mills (Manager) 06 Data corner: Apple SVOD Jessica Harrington Assessing Apple’s video streaming service 32 Building live OTT Regular contributors 08 COVER STORY: DTC Live content distribution over the internet Adrian Pennington, Philip Hunter, David Adams, Stephen Cousins, Get ready for the next wave of (mega) Anna Tobin direct-to-consumer services 34 CSI Awards 2019 All the categories in full Circulation 12 Low latency streaming Joel Whitefoot A CDN mechanism for reducing latency 35 Media in the cloud Accelerating file transfer in the cloud Accounts Marilou Tait, Mohamad Saidani 13 Machine Learning 41 Industry column: 8K TV From ingest and metadata to Editorial recommendations, discover how media The DTG zooms in on 8K television tel +44(0)20 7562 2401 companies are increasingly relying on ML [email protected] 43 Connected entertainment Towards a more connected world Advertising 19 VPNs and geolocation tel +44(0)20 7562 4382 IP intelligence and geo-location is growing [email protected] 50 Technology corner: IMF in importance tel +44(0)20 7562 2438 The DPP on the progress of the standard [email protected] Subscriptions tel +44 (0) 20 1635 588 861 Editor’s report: [email protected] Circulation manager: joel.whitefoot@ As OTT approaches maturity, the streaming market is entering the next phase in perspectivepublishing.com its evolution. On the one hand, this will involve increasing business model diversification, including experimentation with ad-supported tiers. DAZN is the Subscription rates most recent platform to go down this route, and even Netflix is thinking about it Per year: Europe £88; UK £68; Rest of World £98. Cheques payable to in some shape or form. At the same time, a new wave of direct-to-consumer Perspective Publishing services is coming, led by some of the world’s largest media & entertainment brands that will Limited and addressed to the further shake up the market. The two developments are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Circulation Department Interestingly, these trends are coinciding with the launch of Apple’s long-rumoured and long- awaited video streaming service, more thoughts on which can be seen on page 8 in the Printed by Buxton Press analysis by Ampere’s Guy Bisson. Goran Nastic Managing Director John Woods Perspective Publishing Publishing Director 3 London Wall Buildings London Mark Evans 2019 EC2M 5PD www.perspectivepublishing.com ISSN 1467-5935 www.csimagazine.com April 2019 03 03_Contents.indd 1 21/03/2019 11:31:38 News news in brief How do broadcasters approach AV1? JP Morgan forecasts Much has been written about Stockhammer of Qualcomm “I’ve been talking to 160m Disney+ subs how the AOMedia grouping at the DVB World 2019, a broadcasters to understand Disney’s direct-to- could ruffle feathers with its gathering of the global DVB- what their needs are and I consumer streaming new AV1 codec whose spec based broadcaster community think the companies we had service could accumulate was frozen around NAB 2018 “With MPEG it was very come together work on AV1 as many as 160 million time. While the FAANGs are clear, there were go-to people. included profiles that are subscribers globally, thinks committed to deploying it, But here, who is doing the important for broadcasters. JP Morgan. Analyst Alexia and the four main browser legwork, where do I go to, So when I talk to Quadrani reckons Disney+ vendors are on-board, the big who supports me in all broadcasters, those looking at will ultimately be able to question is how AV1 might be these detailed issues? If I upgrading to a next-gen attract 45m subscribers adopted by traditional non- have a user case or a codec, this becomes an domestically in the US and internet/OTT players. problem how do I get into attractive path for them, even 115 internationally for a “There needs to be an this, how can I be heard? if it’s just in the back end. total of 160m subscribers, effort to support the Are things controlled or is it “There are companies who depending on when Disney ecosystem, because if really open?” have invested significant gets some of its content something gets broadly In reply, Nathan Egge of resources in building this and rights back. “We view adopted you need to work on Mozilla said that the process they have committed to streaming services as a maintenance and addressing of becoming a member of the deploy and those people will positive addition to additional use cases. And Alliance is very much open. be there throughout the Disney’s ecosystem,” someone needs to put “I think we have been as lifecycle of this format.” Quadrani said. Previously, forward the resources and forthcoming as possible to Egge noted that the large Moffett- Nathanson make sure these things are bring people in who have real streaming players chose AV1 estimated Disney+ could executed all the way to the concerns and make the not because it is royalty-free attract about 2.4m integration, support those format cover as many use but because it is technically members in the US by the who want to use the cases as possible, I think superior to alternatives, end of its first year. technology,” argued Thomas there is an openness to that. though this is up for debate. Bx-WiFi targets hotspot video congestion SYFY and Sky to debut ambitious new VR A new technology called Broadcast WiFi could offer and AR experience a way of solving the The SYFY is bringing a new devices. It will blend problems of wireless science fiction experience, elements of theatre, reception and transmission Eleven Eleven, in late May gaming and cinema in high-traffic venues like 2019, in a project influenced with immersive sports stadiums and music by immersive theatre, technologies. festivals. Global Invacom using storytelling techniques Tethered VR is partnering with that enable users to headsets will launch Edgewater Wireless view the action from on Oculus Rift, HTC Systems for the further multiple perspectives. Vive/ Vive Pro and development of Bx-WiFi, a Launching on various PlayStation VR, with technology they claim virtual reality platforms and a length over 90 enables live, high quality AR devices, the story is set minutes. Mobile VR and large-scale event video to test the consumer appetite devices (70 minute duration) interconnected characters streaming over an 802.11 for long-form scripted will launch on Oculus Go and and their stories, with over network. “This partnership content in VR and Samsung Gear VR. The AR 90 minutes of content could set a new record AR environments. version (also 70 minutes to explore. number for video Eleven Eleven will launch long) is developed for iOS Sky VR will partner with streaming to a device on with three custom devices using ARKit. SYFY in Sky territories in the each hotspot,” they said. experiences designed for Users will have the ability UK and Europe (Germany, Tested by the BBC, it tethered VR headsets, to control their experience by Spain and Italy) on the could compliment 5G. mobile VR headsets and AR following a group of release of Eleven Eleven. 04 April 2019 www.csimagazine.com 4-5_News.indd 2 19/03/2019 11:51:02 News Sky continues OTT-focused evolution and news in brief service integration with Comcast LTE-over-satellite Chipmaker Sequans UK-based satellite and Communications and broadband provider Sky has aerospace giant Lockheed long been one of the world’s Martin are enabling LTE most innovative technology end-user devices to companies and this track connect directly to GEO record is continuing in 2019 in what they describe as with the launch of the Sky X being the world’s first streaming service in Austria “Sky X is not just a more solutions within AdSmart LTE-over-satellite solution. and deeper integration with expensive version of Now TV, brings together For this purpose, Sequans Comcast under the ownership nor is Sky X a poor man’s NBCUniversal’s Audience engineers modified their of the US cable network.