Tech Features

May 13, 2021

As augmented reality and virtual reality gain more respect in the sports realm, there are some issues to iron out, says Thierry Fautier.

All fired up to use the Red Komodo

April 25, 2021

The RED Komodo is one of the year’s most anticipated products – it promises 6K, is a small form factor cinema camera, and is the most costeffective piece of kit...

Hyper convergence is here to stay

April 19, 2021

With an unprecedented number of people at home seeking entertainment, the appetite for visual content has never been higher and the challenges of providing that have been even greater. A...

From Adversity to Prosperity – CEO Panel

March 25, 2021

During Covid-19, have some media entities had great success even outside the OTT environment? They have, as we learned during the CEO panel at the ASBU BroadcastPro Summit last month.

Back to the future – Tech Panel

March 19, 2021

With no handbook on how to get through a long-term lockdown, CTOs had to come up with quick measures to ensure seamless business continuity while also undertaking infrastructural upgrades to...

What to expect in 2021 for broadcast industry! The experts speak

February 20, 2021

2020 brought a lot of unexpected change that will perhaps continue into 2021 – but some solution providers and broadcasters have had time to take stock of the situation and...

Piracy – Unravelling the maze

December 18, 2020

OTT and pay-TV companies are reported to have lost around $9.1bn in revenue due to piracy and account sharing in 2019 alone. Experts convened for a virtual meet last month...

Strategies to win the OTT race

December 14, 2020

With a plethora of streaming services vying for eyeballs, panellists at the MENA OTT Conference debated on some core issues that could potentially make or break a streaming service.

The OTT journey – Learning from the experts

December 10, 2020

The MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy Virtual Week, hosted by BroadcastPro ME last month, rounded up some of the stakeholders to explore how the narrative for OTT has evolved in recent...

Vox Pop Part One: Visualising the AR roadmap

Vox Pop Part Two: Visualising the AR roadmap

November 22, 2020

BroadcastPro ME asks industry professionals to share their vision of how they foresee AR changing the face of broadcasting in various scenarios and how their own respective solutions can enhance...

Vox Pop Part One: Visualising the AR roadmap

November 20, 2020

BroadcastPro ME asks industry professionals to share their vision of how they foresee AR changing the face of broadcasting in various scenarios and how their own respective solutions can enhance...

Premier League scraps pay-per-view model following backlash

November 17, 2020

Under this model, viewers were asked to pay nearly $20 to watch games not selected for broadcast by Sky Sports or BT Sport in October.

Shaping audio for broadcast

November 12, 2020

With social distancing measures in place, there is an increasing demand within broadcast for high-quality audio capture and wireless transmission that is both stable and efficient in its use of...

Video Piracy: Separating Fact from Fiction

August 14, 2020

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...

How to establish an 8K Future

April 12, 2020

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...

Demystifying the technology of AR for sports

March 15, 2020

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,...

Sponix Tech – Getting Ahead of the Game

February 8, 2020

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 strengthens position in MENA as ARRI distributor

February 2, 2020

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.

The Future of Esports: Convergence, Interactivity and Monetisation

January 27, 2020

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 of unified content protection

January 24, 2020

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...

Clearing misconceptions about the Cloud

December 11, 2019

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 and Evolve Media Group announce new partnership

November 20, 2019

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.

Transitioning to UHD HDR production in the MENA region

October 15, 2019

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...

Pauline Hunter of OSN shares insights on her engineering role at OSN

September 14, 2019

Lack of exposure and incentive are major factors that contribute to unequal representation of women engineers in the broadcast field.

Tour Icon Art’s $4m upgraded kit and studio facilities

August 11, 2019

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...

DCT Abu Dhabi inks partnership with Viacom International Media Networks

August 1, 2019

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.

Sky News Arabia revisits news with AR and VR technologies

July 12, 2019

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...

SAWA Rights Management launches Insight TV on My-HD in MENA

June 19, 2019

Subscribers can now access programming, which features trending topics and behind-the-scenes stories against a backdrop of locations from across the world.

A legal panel on countering piracy in the MENA region

June 11, 2019

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.

A tech and ops debate at the MENA Anti-Piracy Conference

June 11, 2019

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.

Dubai’s Coca-Cola Arena prepares to host inaugural live event

June 5, 2019

Owned by Meraas and operated by AEG Ogden, the facility will host international artists, sports events, and more.

Insight TV launches in MENA on Jawwy TV platform

March 21, 2019

Subscribers will now be able to watch Insight HD TV via the Jawwy set-top box or the Jawwy TV app starting this April.

Connect More People, Places and Things Everywhere

March 7, 2019

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,...

Yahlive renews partnership with Turner Broadcasting Systems

February 13, 2019

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.

Making Sense of Big Data in the Blink of an Eye

February 12, 2019

With consumer viewing habits changing rapidly, traditional methods of labelling and logging metadata no longer seem to be keeping pace.

Alhurra: Blazing a news trail

February 5, 2019

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...

The many benefits AI can bring to pay TV

February 4, 2019

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...

Tech highlights from CES 2019

by Garima Rawat

January 26, 2019

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...

Dubai International Content Market hosts 700 visitors over two-day event

by Garima Rawat

January 8, 2019

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,...

OTT, social media drive video entertainment: The 2018 panel debates

December 31, 2018

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 Revolution: Ushering in a New Era of Intelligent Prompting

December 17, 2018

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...

New broadcast ecosystem: Tech panel debates at the ASBU BroadcastPro Summit

December 17, 2018

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...

Why broadcast solutions providers have integrated Unreal Engine

November 5, 2018

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...

Revisiting storytelling in 4K and HDR with Canon

October 31, 2018

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,...

Mining the AI potential: Jon Morgan of Object Matrix

October 30, 2018

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...

Choosing the lens to tell the story: Les Zellan of Cooke Optics

September 30, 2018

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...

Colors TV Middle East to launch family quiz show

September 10, 2018

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....

Three radio stations and counting – In conversation with Raed Zidan of Shock Middle East

August 28, 2018

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...

ITWorksME designs and deploys OTT platform for Saudi Broadcasting Corporation

July 30, 2018

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...

ASBU’s new cloud of hope for the Arab world

July 30, 2018

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...

Fighting the legal battle against piracy: Experts at Anti-Piracy Conference

July 1, 2018

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,...

Content piracy: A tech and ops debate at the MENA Anti-piracy Conference

June 23, 2018

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,...

Consumer experience is the new king of OTT: Ron Downey of Massive

June 10, 2018

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...

Turkish channel YOL TV launches on Astra with MX1

June 4, 2018

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...

2018 is the year of machine learning: Glodina Lostanlen of Imagine Communications

May 10, 2018

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...

Creating a viable path to IP-based workflows: Will Waters of NewTek

May 8, 2018

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...

ARET builds OB van for Sharjah TV

April 26, 2018

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...

Dubai’s Shock Middle East launches third radio station

April 15, 2018

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...

HEVC migration: Anthonypillai Stanislous of Rohde & Schwarz outlines benefits

April 5, 2018

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...

Grading “The Insult”, Lebanon’s Oscar debut