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techMEDIA TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION -iISSUE 24 • JUNE 2015 Hybrid is here to stay Plus • HBBTV APPLICATION DISCOVERY OVER BROADBAND • EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NETFLIX • WHAT’S IN THE SANDBOX? and more... tech.ebu.ch Is that the tech Global Village I issue 24 • june 2015-i • contents see before me? 2 Editorial Simon Fell, Director, EBU Technology & Innovation 3 What's the buzz? 4 Digital Radio Summit 5 RadioHack BroadThinking 6 NAB CPM 7 RTVE starts UHD-1 trials over different platforms re we now living in the “Global about ten followers live and it was quite an 8-9 HbbTV application discovery Village” postulated by Marshall exciting moment, showing the promise of McLuhan in his book the future. We were using Qik in those over broadband ‘Understanding Media’ in the days which I understand was closed down 10 Everything you need to know A1960s? He described how “the globe has by Skype when they purchased it in 2014. been contracted into a village by electric It is now Skype Qik focused on short video about Netflix technology and the instantaneous messages between users. You might ask 11 What’s in the Sandbox? movement of information from every whether the old Qik should have quarter to every point at the same time. In continued given the recent explosion in 12 New open source community bringing all social and political functions popularity of the new apps. Subtitle distribution at BBC together in a sudden implosion, electric What we are seeing is improved speed heightened human awareness of bandwidths leading to an acceptable 13 Understanding young audiences responsibility to an intense degree.” service and creating a new paradigm (to I write this as we approach election use a current buzzword) – hence public 14 Opening up hybrid TV for all season in my home country, the UK, and I adoption. It may be just a fad, but a few am reminded how ‘Virtual Sets’ and news minutes spent with both new apps today 15 The importance of 5G technology – now extending to elicited the following gems. Live from the In my opinion Augmented Reality and the extensive use Queen Mary Hospital in London where a of social media – are constantly innovating new princess was born we had professional 16 Using spectrum for PPDR as each election approaches. As well as the users such as Sky News and approximately arsenal of technologies deployed by 225 live viewers all the way to a new 17 LRT launches remote studio broadcasters in the studio, we now have Periscope user who was trying out his new micro social media apps such as Periscope skills as a street reporter in the same 18 Making EBU-TT flow and Meerkat capturing the zeitgeist of location. The social media aspect showed Project Logo popular opinion and turning the world users encouraging him to carry on and into news reporters or commentators. giving tips with a stream of hearts floating 19 In the spotlight What does this mean for the coverage of by. I’m not sure that the live tweets news and events in the future? Is it all over? superimposed over the video add value in Should we hand the keys to the news studio all cases but it certainly changes ones over to the public and leave them to it? perspective. This was quickly followed by a A few minutes of experimentation with visit courtesy of Meerkat to the Brewood both apps taught me that as social media versus Bridgnorth cricket match in the Editor-in-Chief: Simon Fell sites such as Twitter integrate your rain where one helpful viewer (from 10 Managing Editor: Shannon Frame followers with extensions such as live viewers) suggested tea and crumpets? Email: [email protected] Periscope, this leads to new trends that test Then over to a live concert in Tel. +41 22 717 27 45 our understanding of what live reporting Johannesburg, a rooftop bar in Istanbul, Design: Louise Tait can be. blossom on the trees in Central Park, New Printed on FSC certified paper by New Goff n.v. When I picked up that these apps were York, and some guys presenting from a bar becoming popular recently, I thought back in Taipei. Yes, some streams drop out, but © European Broadcasting Union to 2008 when one of the young many were surprisingly good. technologists in my Future Technology In the year of the digital elections are we All rights reserved. The reproduction of articles in tech-i team went to a demonstration in London seeing the emergence of the Global Village is authorized only with the written permission of the publishers. The responsibility for views expressed in and began streaming live over what was before our very eyes? Food for thought, tech-i rests solely with the authors. then 3G or still 2G. There was not much and be careful with that record button – frame rate as I recall – but, he quickly had you never know who may be watching! 2 tech-i | tech.ebu.ch | june 2015 What's the buzz? EBU @ IBC 10-14 September, RAI Amsterdam IBC is Europe’s largest annual conference and exhibition dedicated to broadcast media technology. As usual, the EBU will be present with demonstrations, presentations and sessions at the stand to ensure that public service media remains at the forefront of technology and innovation. https://tech.ebu.ch/events/ibc2015 FORECAST 20-21 October, EBU, Geneva Our annual seminar dealing with broadcast technologies, spectrum management and related topics attracts more than 100 broadcasters, policymakers, and other industry stakeholders each year. https://tech.ebu.ch/events/forecast15 DEVCON 2015 06-07 October, EBU, Geneva In today’s media world, it’s all about being agile. Join us at our 3rd EBU Developers Conference and get hands on with current software development and deployment tools, share best practice and learn from the pros. https://tech.ebu.ch/events/devcon15 The way people consume media has completely changed. I asked our audience this month, how can we create a new foundation for our stories? Here are some of their replies… @skframe “The only way Public Service “No one knows what Media can protect our vision of the media habits of the society is by creating free digital digital generation will services that are respectful of be in later life - I doubt the privacy and habits of their “The way things are it will be playing candy citizens and ensuring actual changing greatly crush. If it is, the world marketing neutrality.” – BRUNO depends on cultural is in trouble. I suspect TÉZENAS DU MONTCEL factors, the nature of it will be watching the content and the television broadcasts - development of what’s silently saying as we do #JoinUs on Twitter: EBU_TECH, Facebook: on offer in other areas” today: 'go on - surprise EBU Technology & Innovation, or – GEORGES BERY me'.” – DAVID WOOD Linkedin: EBU Technology & Innovation tech-i | tech.ebu.ch | june 2015 3 Unifying the radio experience This year’s Digital Radio Summit marked the 8th anniversary of such d a s hb o ard .” an event. With over a 110 participants from 25 different countries Digital radio is not so much about platforms anymore but as far as Australia and the United States, the event showed that rather about offering a simple and attractive listening experience discussions around the future of digital radio are still at the top of the to audiences. Often, the digital radio experience in cars is too agenda in many organizations. complicated compared to newer applications and services. For digital EBU Director of Technology & Innovation, Simon Fell, opened radio to work and maintain its attractiveness, it must be seamless the event with remarks on the many exciting developments showing and automatically select the best way to receive services (i.e. service the promise of digital radio in today’s crowded consumer electronics following). marketplace. He pointed to the example of visual radio coming into Frank Nowack, Ford’s Function Owner for Broadcast Media and its own, with the EBU currently supplying visual radio to at least Reception, noted that the car industry (Ford) is dedicated to going 20 radio stations and websites for the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski forward with digital radio, but that more coverage of European roads Championships in Colorado. “We need to ensure that radio has a must be achieved to do so. There is no doubt that connected cars are bright future by continuing to develop and push the boundaries of coming but, streamed radio in cars won’t replace broadcast radio. what is possible,” he said. Other key topics of the day included digital migration, smart Michael Hill, Founder and Managing Director of UK Radioplayer and hybrid radio, and radio in smartphones. The development of Ltd, set the scene by focusing on how broadcast and internet radio will interactivity and personalisation in radio also seems inevitable. To offer an attractive listener experience in the future. In particular, he achieve this, BBC has worked within the EBU framework to help urged participants to take on three tasks to bring hybrid radio to the create a Cross Platform Authentication Protocol which allows user next level: “Launch your own shared player platform; help solve the devices to pair with apps and avoids one having complicated logins data-jigsaw and commit to RadioDNS, if you haven’t already; and, help foron every device and for every station. This is just the start. For more fight back against the companies that want to steal our place on the information, see: https://tech.ebu.ch/events/drs2015 4 tech-i | tech.ebu.ch | june 2015 Out of chaos comes brilliance The phrase above was only one of the many mantras of this year’s EBU RadioHack.