The Project Entangle EX
Project Entangle – our platform for exploring ways of obtaining and consuming media – was developed on PCs and up until now Entangle platforms have largely been laptops or NUCs. They make great development environments and have a plethora of tools often missing from embedded platforms. But even “thin and light” laptops are big …
Koherence’s response to FCC Docket 16-142 and ATSC 3.0 DRM
As broadcasters have started turning on DRM for their services, viewers using HDHomeruns and other devices have started to lose access to those services. Here in the SF Bay Area, CBS, NBC, and Univision stations have encrypted their services while ABC, FOX, and the independent KRON remain in the clear. On a recent trip to …
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North Korea Rolls Out Next-Generation Television to Captive Audience
Not to be outdone by their neighbors to the south, North Korea has taken its first steps in rolling out the next-generation television standard KTSC 3.0. Based on ATSC 3.0, KTSC 3.0 modifies the standard, for example by replacing COFDM with TEADM, so that compliant televisions are unable to receive the ATSC 3.0 broadcasts from South …
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Amazon CEO: Prime Video to Reinvent the NFL Viewing Experience
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy lauded the ecommerce behemoth’s Prime Video platform in his annual shareholder letter covering the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 2021.
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Nielsen study shows most streaming viewers spend $30 or less
A new Nielsen report suggests that monthly streaming budgets remain well below the ever-increasing r
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Cord cutting is sending TV networks to the cloud
Many ground rules for Internet anonymity are set not by courts or legislators, but by the private platforms that are the gateways to the Internet. Social media sites, online discussion forums, and other platforms are private companies that are not restricted by the First Amendment.
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Nexstar CEO says Next Gen TV revenue could rival retrans take by 2030
As the pay TV universe shrinks, Nexstar Media Group Inc. is eyeing major revenue opportunities tied to the adoption of new broadcast technology. Chairman and CEO Perry Sook told investors at a March 14 conference that by the end of the decade, the Advance Television Systems Committee 3.
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Research: Gen Z favour both TV and short-form video
While the media lifestyles of Gen Z – a generation that has never known a world without Internet – are dominated by social media and music streaming, this diverse audience of streamers view long-form TV content with as much frequency as short-form video content, according to Horowitz Research’
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