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IP Production IBC Preview Cloud Playout AMC/Sundance Q&A IP production www.csimagazine.com IBC preview Cloud playout AMC/Sundance Q&A Welcome to High Dynamic Range television September 2015 cover.indd 1 19/08/2015 12:33:55 Expect More. AMOS Satellites. Meet us at More Coverage. More Throughput. More Services. IBC September 11-15, 2015 Across the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia. Amsterdam Hall 1, Booth C.65 Spacecom’s AMOS satellite constellation, consisting of AMOS-2 and AMOS-3 co-located at 4°W, AMOS-4 at 65°E and AMOS-5 at 17°E provides high-quality broadcast and communications services across Europe, Africa, Russia, Asia and the Middle East. With the upcoming launch of AMOS-6, Spacecom is expanding its coverage over Europe and Africa. The result: greater capacity, high-throughput Ka multibeam capabilities and affordable end-to-end satellite services. Spacecom. Expect More. EXPECT MORE www.amos-spacecom.com Untitled-2 1 10/08/2015 12:00:19 Contents IP production www.csimagazine.com IBC preview Cloud playout AMC/Sundance Q&A 30 Online piracy Editor Goran Nastic A new way of thinking about connected revenue security Commercial Welcome to High Dynamic Range television John Woods, Hammad Uddin September 2015 cover.indd 1 19/08/2015 12:33:55 36 Data corner A closer look at SVoD customers Design and production Matt Mills (Manager) 10 Analyst corner Jason Tucker With the first 4k channels launching in Europe, 40 IP production Matleena Lilja-Pelling an assessment of early services and the future It has its pros and cons, which broadcasters would do well to start preparing for Regular contributors 12 COVER STORY - HDR special Adrian Pennington, Philip Hunter, 44 Smart home David Adams, Stephen Cousins, High Dynamic Range really will take TV up a Anna Tobin level but it is not without challenges. Our special How is the market evolving and what role can ZigBee play? focus also features insight from DTG and DVB Circulation Joel Whitefoot 20 Set-top box evolution 50 Cloud playout STBs are downsizing but not yet down and out Making some proper inroads but not yet ready Accounts for all aspects of playout functions Marilou Tait, Lynta Kamaray 26 Q&A: AMC/Sundance Editorial Bruce Tuchman of AMC Networks/Sundance 54 Recommendations/analytics tel +44(0)20 7562 2401 Channel on Millennial viewing habits, UHD, View the results of our survey, highlighting the [email protected] direct-to-consumer OTT and other hot topics value they hold for payTV operators Advertising 29 Opinion 58 IBC 2015 preview tel +44(0)20 7562 2421 The economics of online distribution don’t quite Some of the highlights worth discovering on the [email protected] tel +44(0)20 7562 2422 add up yet, argues DVB’s Phil Laven show floor and the conference tracks [email protected] Subscriptions tel +44 (0) 20 1635 588 861 Editor’s report: [email protected] Circulation manager: joel.whitefoot@ The industry loves talking up new technologies, so will High Dynamic Range live up to the perspectivepublishing.com hype? Seeing is believing as they say, and HDR really does have the ‘wow’ factor that will take television to a higher level. Together with wider colour gamut, HDR is not so much 50 Subscription rates shades of grey as 1,024 shades of colour. Already standardised for UHD Blu-ray, HDR is Per year: Europe £88; UK £68; now going through a standardisation process in the broadcast industry (via SMPTE, Rest of World £98. Cheques payable MPEG, DVB, ATSC, ARIB and ITU-R) for traditional broadcast and IP delivery. Having seen a BBC to Perspective Publishing demo, the difference in images is extremely noticeable and once the standards are resolved it may well be Limited and addressed to the the catalyst for accelerating 4k/Ultra HD. But like any new technology there are hurdles, with the DTG Circulation Department warning about mixed messages to consumers with HDR and UHD. To this end, the group aim to run an HDR plugfest as soon as possible, while DVB’s David Wood’ urges you to make your mind up about the Printed by Buxton Press would-be standards out there. This and much more in our HDR special from p12 on. Goran Nastic, editor Managing Director John Woods Perspective Publishing Publishing Director 3 London Wall Buildings Mark Evans London 2015 EC2M 5PD www.perspectivepublishing.com ISSN 1467-5935 www.csimagazine.com September 2015 03 contents.indd 3 08/09/2015 15:27:02 RAI Amsterdam Conference 10-14 September : Exhibition 11-15 September Experience IBC Attracting over 55,000 attendees from more than 170 different countries, IBC’s annual Conference and Exhibition provide an essential guide to the current and future direction of the electronic media and entertainment industry. IBC Conference IBC Content Everywhere Europe • 6 streams over 5 themed days Featuring: • 300+ speakers • IBC Content Everywhere Hub • Over 80 sessions • IBC Content Everywhere Applied Tech Theatre IBC Exhibition Plus: • 1,700+ key industry suppliers • IBC Awards • Fourteen themed and easy to navigate halls • IBC Leaders’ Summit • Touch & Connect networking technology • IBC Rising Stars • IBC Future Zone • IBC Big Screen Experience Register now to take advantage of our Early Bird rates at www.ibc.org/register www.ibc.org IBC, Third Floor, 10 Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1BR, UK t. +44 (0) 20 7832 4100 f. +44 (0) 20 7832 4130 e. [email protected] 204x271_ExperienceIBC.inddUntitled-1 1 1 13/05/201512/05/2015 10:29:33 20:48 News Netflix starts its Japan odyssey news in brief Netflix will look to crack the with Netflix’s monthly fee added to Restart option for Sky Movies Japanese market, starting on 2 their bill. The telco will begin pre- Sky is rolling out its third September with a three-tier structure installing the Netflix app on its software update to its Sky+ and partnership with mobile operator smartphones for sale after October. platform this year, including SoftBank. However, nScreen Media analyst Watch From Start. Reacting to The basic plan offers single-stream Colin Dixon warns of a ‘long, tough’ Web and traditional competitors, standard definition for YEN650 for Netflix in the country. Sky has upped the pace of ($5.40) plus tax per month; a two- While broadband penetration it could take a very long time to development on its Sky+ platform stream HD package is a monthly stands at over 70% and the Japanese build to a meaningful market and and is now rolling out software YEN950 plus tax; and a premium enjoy watching video on smaller revenue shares,” said Dixon. updates every three to four plan of four-stream 4k ultra-HD, devices, they are reluctant to pay for Netflix is also reportedly set to months. The latest, Watch From family plan is ¥1,450 plus tax. television service, and are happy to enter the Indian market in 2016. Start, allows Sky Movies Moreover, SoftBank will exist on a large diet of traditional free Meanwhile, its Australian service customers to watch a film from exclusively offer a fully integrated broadcast TV. Indeed, Tokyo’s FTA has accumulated a market leading the start even if they missed the Netflix experience, including billing. TV networks are set to launch their 1.6m users in the country, and is beginning of the programme. This It may also be involved in local own service this October, one of now in 8% of households. It is enabled through a click of the content. The Netflix Japan service many to rival Netflix. launched down under in March green button which then starts will roll out with a selection of “With many SVOD services in since but already has 900,000 downloading the film from the on Japanese TV series and films, as well market and more launching in paying customers and a further demand library. Watch from Start as original content like Marco Polo. advance of Netflix arrival, it could be 700,000 who are still on free trials, was inspired by some “very SoftBank users will be able to sign the company’s longest haul to according to Citi Research analyst similar” technology that was up for Netflix through different ways, meaningful revenue yet. It looks like Justin Diddams. popular at Sky Italia, Sky said. news_05.indd 1 26/08/2015 14:06:36 News news in brief First losses for Dutch cable as YouSee Telefonica embarks on major reacts to viewing habits transformed by IP transformation project Alcatel-Lucent will deliver its IP streaming routing technology as part of Telefónica’s three-year ‘Fusión The number of cable broadband loss of about 11,000 broadband changing times and many are Red IP’ global transformation connections in The Netherlands fell customers during the second quarter bleeding broadband and, especially, project. The project, which is during the second quarter of 2015, to end June 2015 with 46.3% of the TV customers. expected to get underway in the its first ever drop, as a result of broadband market, down by 0.3%. The company said it is no longer coming months in Murcia, will telco fibre deployments. The cablenet is still the largest feasible to operate as a traditional replace older routers within Broadband via cable connections broadband provider. TV provider now that streaming has Telefonica’s network, using IP fell by 0.3%, for the first time since KPN had a market share of 40.4%, transformed viewing habits. As a routing to perform core routing cable broadband was introduced in after gaining 0.3% during the quarter. result, it claims to be launching and layer two and three edge the country, leading to a drop in The operator added 31,000 Denmark’s largest entertainment routing functions and act as a cable’s market share to just over broadband customers during the universe, offering all its new TV broadband network gateway for 46%, according to the latest second quarter, driven by growth in customers who have broadband with the provision of residential research from Telecompaper.
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