Video Piracy: Separating Fact from Fiction
For those in doubt about what constitutes piracy, Avi Wachtfogel, Senior Director of Security Strategy at Synamedia, lays it out in black and white and suggests ways to keep one...
For those in doubt about what constitutes piracy, Avi Wachtfogel, Senior Director of Security Strategy at Synamedia, lays it out in black and white and suggests ways to keep one...
Manufacturers are pushing 8K sets, but are we ready? Do we have the content, infrastructure and standards to take this format forward? Thierry Fautier explores the challenges and solutions for...
With revenue from AR-generated ads estimated to hit $15bn by 2022, media houses are looking to leverage 5G-connected wearable technologies to secure a piece of the pie, especially within sports,...
From playing professional football to developing unique software-based technologies that have taken the world of sports broadcasting by storm, Mohammad Ali Abbaspour, founder and CEO of Sponix Tech, has come...
Cineom has concluded more than $2.7m of business in the region, with close to 70% of it being related to ARRI, said Deo, Cineom founder and Director.
Watching esports and game video content is becoming as important as actually playing, says Ricardo Rodrigues, Head of Business Development – Americas at Telstra Broadcast Services.
The rise in OTT platforms and IP delivery has diminished the relevance of legacy CAS technology, which was optimised for one-way broadcast networks. The future lies in solutions that secure...
Tech speakers at the BroadcastPro Summit shared their views on current cloud trends, the region’s status quo and some of the factors to keep in mind when considering cloud solutions.
Disguise’s pre-visualisation service which allows customers to see how their content will look to the display environment, will help Evolve in providing services to live event industry.
Once reserved purely for the emerging technologies sections at trade shows, new content with ever more pixels, higher frame rates and wider colour gamuts is having a transformative effect on...
Lack of exposure and incentive are major factors that contribute to unequal representation of women engineers in the broadcast field.
In keeping with the rising demand for film projects in the UAE, Icon Art has revamped its kit and studio facilities as part of a $4m investment. CEO Zakir Hussain...
With this agreement, Viacom will host Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and the World of Nickelodeon in the United Arab Emirates for the next five years.
VR offers enormous flexibility to change the look andfeel of sets, offering endless possibilities in news presentation. Sky News Arabia has employed the latest virtual...
Subscribers can now access programming, which features trending topics and behind-the-scenes stories against a backdrop of locations from across the world.
Our legal panel brought together high-profile lawyers representing media houses from the UAE, Egypt, India and the UK to address some of the key issues that plague the industry.
Titled Fighting Back: Using Technology to Shield Media Assets, the second panel discussion, moderated by Ahmed Abbas of DigiSay, addressed the need to shield media assets using technology.
Owned by Meraas and operated by AEG Ogden, the facility will host international artists, sports events, and more.
Subscribers will now be able to watch Insight HD TV via the Jawwy set-top box or the Jawwy TV app starting this April.
The Demand for More Coverage By 2025 there will be 5.9 billion unique mobile subscribers, with mobile internet and smartphones driving most of the growth. In addition to mobile subscribers,...
The renewed agreement will see Turner Broadcasting Systems news channel, CNN International, continue broadcasting to Yahlives viewers across South West Asia and the Middle East.
With consumer viewing habits changing rapidly, traditional methods of labelling and logging metadata no longer seem to be keeping pace.
While the upgrade across MBN's facilities is ongoing, Alhurra's Dubai office was among the first to be transformed.The first thing that catches your eye as you...
Simon Trudelle is Senior Director Product Marketing at NAGRA.As industries across the globe harness the power of data and AI, the pay-TV industry has until now...
Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2019, held in Las Vegas, served as the launch site for a series of transformative technologies and drew a huge audience from around the world. With...
More than 250 buyers from 35 countries attended the market, and engaged in 845 meetings with the exhibitors.The Dubai International Content Market (DICM), formerly called MYCONTENT,...
With per capita consumption of social media across the MENA among the highest in the globe, the second panel discussion on OTT and social media made for compelling listening at...
The IP DiagramAs media operations continue their migration from baseband SDI to packet-based Internet Protocol (IP) workflows, operators and system engineers are rethinking their approach to...
A lively exchange on cloud adoption and the deployment of AI in broadcast workflows ensured that the post-lunch tech panel had the rapt attention of attendees at the 2018 ASBU...
From having a fleet of sports cars in the studio to placing the presenter at the heart of a raging tornado, studios are not restricted by space or geography. Solutions...
From left: Stephen Hart Dyke, Professional Imaging/B2B Product Marketing Manager with Paul Atkinson, European Product Specialist, Professional Video, Imaging Technologies & Communications Group for Canon Europe,...
Jon Morgan is CEO of Object Matrix.AI search will monetise archives in new ways and AI data management will move data and data processing algorithms to...
From full-frame to anamorphic and vintage looks, cinematographers have the widest choice in format, equipment and lens to tell a story, writes Les Zellan of Cooke Optics.In the early part of...
The show will be hosted by Cyrus Sahukar.Distribution company for TV18 and Viacom18, IndiaCast, is launching a family quiz show Brain Wagon in the Middle East....
Chairman and Founder of Shock ME, Raed Zidan.Raed Zidan entered the radio scene at a time when critics were questioning the industrys future. The Chairman of...
Salloum El Dahdaah, CTO, ITWorksME.Lebanon-headquartered OTT solutions provider ITWorksME speaks to BroadcastPro ME on designing, customising and deploying an online platform for Saudi Broadcasting Corporation in...
Abdelrahim Suleiman (second from right), Director General of ASBU accompanies the Minister at the opening of the exhibition floor.The Arab States Broadcasting Union demonstrated unprecedented cloud...
From left: Aditya Verma, Senior Legal Counsel at OSN; Omar Obeidat, Partner and Head of Intellectual Property at law firm Al Tamimi & Co; Waleed Mahboub,...
From left: Alex Borland, Head of Media Sales EMEA at Ericsson; Dr Naser Refaat, CTO of Rotana Media Group; Petr Peterka, CTO of Verimatrix; and Mike Barley,...
Ron Downey, CEO, Massive Interactive.Ron Downey, CEO at Massive, identifies the stand-out OTT trends in the market and urges operators to deliver a tailored experience to...
German-based Turkish channel YOL TV has chosen media services provider MX1 as its distribution service provider from June 1. MX1 delivers the channel via an SES satellite and provides the...
Glodina Lostanlen, CMO, Imagine Communications.New artificial intelligence capabilities will dig deeper into the decision-making realm freeing the industry to create engaging content, writes Glodina Lostanlen of...
Will Waters is Senior Director for IP Workflow Strategy at NewTek.Large investments in SDI core routers and other edge devices serve a legitimate function, writes Will...
Dr Eng Umberto Asti, Vice President of ARET Video and Audio Engineering.BroadcastPro ME speaks to the team at systems integrator ARET that custom-built the 3G HD...
Raed Zidan, the founder and co-owner of Shock Middle East.Shock Middle East based in Dubais Media City, has launched its third radio station.Hala 95.6 FM, Shock...
Anthonypillai Stanislous, Technical Manager MEA at Rohde & Schwarz.Transitioning from a traditional AVC workflow may seem daunting for video providers streaming in multiple formats, but the...
"Diamond Bou Abboud, who plays a defence lawyer in the film, has beautiful fair skin that caught bounce from everywhere," recalls Belal Hibri who used DaVinci...
Award-winning filmmakers and a celebrity YouTuber join the Canon panel to discuss factors that determine their choice of camera.An estimated 28% of the Middle East population is aged between 15...
While security issues linger and the fear of job losses lurks outside boardrooms, participants at a roundtable hosted by BroadcastPro ME in conjunction with cloud specialist Amagi, agreed that cloud...
Keith Lissak is Senior Director, M&ESolutions Marketing at Quantum.Current data management technology has made multipoint content synchronisation a set-and-forget convenience, writes Keith Lissak, Senior Director, M&E Solutions...
BroadcastPro ME visited the Shure headquarters in Chicago recently and came back with a deeper understanding of what goes into the making of wireless systems, and the new spectrum challenges...
Organised by BroadcastPro ME in conjunction with Rohde & Schwarz, the roundtable was titled: IP-based broadcast contribution revolution or evolution?IP has been around for a...
Hasan Sayed Hasan, MD and Founder of Master Media and Chairman of the Arab HDTV and Beyond Group making opening remarks.The annual Arab HDTV and Beyond...
Robert Lakos, Founder of Deleel TVA $7 set-top box has enough logging and reporting capabilities via 3G modem or QR code to offer insights into the...
Nick Fitzgerald is Chairman of TV2UMoving beyond the IP address as a means of identifying a viewer or their location is now possible. In addition to...
OSN has announced a lineup of television series and films for the new year.On OSN First HBO HD, The X-Files returns with the newly reinstated FBI agents Mulder and Scully continuing the...
The ballroom at Habtoor Grand was packed as industry professionals gathered to hear some of the most distinguished voices on the MENA broadcast landscape come together for the ASBU BroadcastPro...
The panel discussion on internet video at the annual ASBU BroadcastPro ME Selevision Summit 2017 focused on profitability, partnerships, premium content and the scourge of piracy.Since the pre-YouTube era of...
We were promised a revolution, opened Peter Ennis, Senior Vice President, Global Services, Delivery and Customer Support, Avid. The 20-year broadcast industry veteran had flown in from New Zealand to...
In cooperation with Turkish company Polimeks, Broadcast Solutions GmbH has delivered a fleet to Turkmenistan TV, consisting of 16 vehicles (4 sets) in two phases of construction. Each set of...