The magazine for global video www.csimagazine.com April 2018 AR vs VR video AR vs Cyber security Voice interfaces Voice encoding AV1, HEVC & future of & future HEVC AV1, Sports streaming special June 2016 • OTT, VoD, Cloud TV, Cable, Satellite, IPTV, DTT, IoT • The latest news, views and features Coveer2018-April-v2.indd 1 21/03/2018 17:20:23 2018 12- 14 June 2018 EXHIBITION & CONFERENCE REGISTER NOW! BROADBAND REGISTER EXHIBITION & CONFERENCE FOR TELEVISION BROADBAND, CABLE & SATELLITE • 12 - 14 June 2018 • Cologne / Germany ONLINE • www.angacom.de 19,000 2,300 460 PARTICIPANTS CONFERENCE EXHIBITORS 50 % INTERNATIONAL ATTENDEES FROM 37 COUNTRIES ANGA Services GmbH Nibelungenweg 2 · 50996 Köln / Germany Kindly supported by www.angacom.de Tel. +49 (0)221 / 99 80 81-0 · [email protected] Untitled-6 1 23/03/2018 15:38:21 Contents The magazine for global video 17 Voice interfaces Operators globally are finally deploying www.csimagazine.com April 2018 voice control, starting with better content AR vs VR video search and discovery. Two features in this Cyber security section examine the latest trends and what Editor Voice interfaces Voice lies in store Goran Nastic encoding AV1, HEVC & future of & future HEVC AV1, Commercial Sports streaming special 24 Next-gen compression Camilla Capece June 2016 • OTT, VoD, Cloud TV, Cable, Satellite, IPTV, DTT, IoT • The latest news, views and features Coveer2018-April-v2.indd 1 21/03/2018 17:20:23 AOM’s AV1 codec is emerging as a major Pallavi Pandey 05 News alternative family to the MPEG/ISO community, putting pressure on HEVC. Design and production The latest video news, views and analysis Matt Mills (Manager) What does it mean for the future of OTT Jessica Harrington and broadcast delivery? 08 Data corner: OTT sports Regular contributors Niche sports offer a low-cost way for global 28 Cyber security Adrian Pennington, Philip Hunter, David Adams, Stephen Cousins, streaming services to enter competitive An update on the Digital Production Anna Tobin sports bidding, while out-of-country rights Partnership’s new programme that tackles present the opportunity to scale globally security practices in broadcast Circulation Joel Whitefoot 10 COVER STORY 30 AR vs VR Accounts Assessing how digital giants are poised to A comparative look at the relative merits of Marilou Tait, Lynta Kamaray disrupt the status quo of live sports augmented and virtual reality formats as broadcasting they relate to television content Editorial tel +44(0)20 7562 2401 14 Q&A: ESL UK 32 CSI Awards [email protected] The final part of our sports special features All the categories in this year’s awards, a chat with the COO and executive producer Advertising which are now open for entries tel +44(0)20 7562 2435 of esports company ESL UK about [email protected] production technology in the esports world 34 Events diary tel +44(0)20 7562 2438 and what TV can bring to the table from a [email protected] content perspective Key industry events taking place in 2018 Subscriptions tel +44 (0) 20 1635 588 861 Editor’s report: [email protected] Circulation manager: joel.whitefoot@ The days of live sports being the last bastion of traditional payTV subscriptions perspectivepublishing.com have come to an end. Sports are already one of the key drivers for the increase in linear OTT services and channels. Thanks mainly to sport, Dataxis estimates there Subscription rates are over 7m European linear subs paying for streaming TV services. Disruption is Per year: Europe £88; UK £68; coming not just from digital giants but sports-centric OTT aggregators and sports Rest of World £98. Cheques payable to federations going direct-to-consumer, an especially appealing route for Tier 2 sports that have Perspective Publishing Limited and addressed to the a dedicated fan base globally. So while there is growing evidence that viewing of live scheduled Circulation Department sports is in decline, streaming formats have become the new engine for growth. As the old saying goes, in every threat there is an opportunity. The same goes for voice interfaces, where Printed by Buxton Press operators have found a new confidence on the back of smart assistants’ adoption. GN Managing Director John Woods Perspective Publishing Publishing Director 3 London Wall Buildings London Mark Evans EC2M 5PD www.perspectivepublishing.com ISSN 1467-5935 www.csimagazine.com April 2018 03 3-contentsSep.indd 1 23/03/2018 14:34:32 CSI Awards 2018 14 September 2018, Amsterdam 16th annual CSI Awards Deadline for entries: 18 June 2018 @CSI_Magazine #CSIAwards In association with www.csimagazine.com/awards CSIAWards2018.indd 1 15/03/2018 10:01:50 News What does Telstra’s experience with news in brief Ooyala mean for the future of OVPs? Swiss operator launches 10Gig internet When Ooyala’s owner, and 4K HDR Apple TV Telstra, announced in early Salt has entered the Swiss February it would write down fixed line market with one some $500 million of its of the first commercial 10 investment, it led to questions Gbps broadband services of what exactly went wrong. anywhere in the world, and The Australian telco a promise to undercut its pumped hundreds of millions local triple-play rivals. Salt into Ooyala in three years to said it will offer the tap into the growing trend for 10Gbps internet product, online video. Ooyala also had 300 television channels designs to become a and unlimited telephony in YouTube-type platform for the Switzerland for 49.95 enterprise video space, an Swiss francs (EUR40) a ambition it has since month. The service also downscaled. Telstra is still Kaltura itself recognises technology providers such comes with a 2.2Gbps looking for a buyer for and admits that the world has as Ericsson have not been WiFi router and a new 4K Ooyala’s struggling ad-tech changed since the launch of able to make the necessary HDR Apple TV box. business, but is keeping its the first OVPs more than a shifts - from hardware to These speeds across 30 online video platform (OVP) decade ago. “All manner of software, and from on-prem cities and regions in and automated workflow- service providers have started to cloud and SaaS models.” Switzerland come courtesy management system units. looking at OTT and IP video These new software-driven of the FTTH network of Ooyala’s core OVP business streaming platforms not just cloud TV platforms need to Swiss Fiber Network, a helps companies launch OTT as a side car to their primary match the availability and joint venture comprised of services fast with ‘data-driven broadcast distribution scalability of broadcast TV; energy providers. insights’. But the OVP space business but as the offer the personalisation is a crowded one, with the cornerstone of their future and interactivity inherent in Digital payTV subs pass 1bn likes of Kaltura, NeuLion and growth strategy [Ed: Disney OTT technologies on the but OTT sets the pace Brightcove vying for a share being a good case in point]. big screen; support myriad There were over one of global deployments, on top They are making the move to business models, and a mix billion digital pay TV of larger players like Nokia, a cloud TV-shaped reality in of live, VoD and time-shift subscriptions across cable, IBM, Verizon and Comcast. which an OTT video platform services; among many satellite and IPTV Rethink Research puts the provides the core video other requirements. platforms even though blame partly on the wider platform for delivering all of There will arguably always OTT net-subscriber move to the cloud: “Vendors these next-generation TV be room to partner with additions outstripped net similar to Ooyala are now services,” says Gideon Gilboa third party providers to help pay TV subs by 3 to 1 in essentially worthless, ravaged of Kaltura. deliver a complete solution most regions. Western by the commoditisation of “From a vendor perspective for those who don’t have Europe added eight OTT video technologies inside the industry’s tilt to IP, cloud resources to launch multi- subscriptions for every pay cloud technology titans like and software creates a screen apps and other video TV net addition. Digital AWS. A shift in the video fantastic market opportunity. products. Perhaps one pay TV subscriptions in market has been approaching But the flip side is that it also lesson is that companies North America continued for some time.” throws up some rather large should focus on what they to decline, losing 3m While the doomsday technological, operational are best at and there will homes in 2017, while OTT hyperbole is perhaps and organisational hurdles. always be room for best-of- subscriptions increased by overstated, there is the real For many of the OVP breed technologies - storage, nearly 30m. Digital payTV question of where cloud vendors, the bar was set too encryption, encoding, has Asia-Pac to thank for giants leave OVPs and are high and they couldn’t clear analytics and so on – in its growth, with the region these platforms now the hurdles cleanly,” he says. dedicated platforms, even in accounting for 83% of net a commodity? “Even large legacy pay-TV a cloud-based world. adds, according to IHS. www.csimagazine.com April 2018 05 05news.indd 1 23/03/2018 14:42:24 News news in brief All US TV stations to stream by 2022 MediaFirst on Amlogic SoCs As streaming video continues Ericsson’s MediaFirst to gather pace, a new report middleware is being ported suggests that every major US directly onto Amlogic’s TV network will introduce a chipsets. The integration direct to consumer OTT of Amlogic’s S905X service in the next five years.