Tag: OTT

Mar302013March 30, 2013August 31, 20212Commentsby Nicolas Weil

EBU BroadThinking 2013 – the state of the art rendezvous for OTT and Hybrid TV // DAY 1 Report

Posted in Broadcast, CDN, Curations, DRM, Encoding, OTT, Repackaging, Second-Screen, Workflow

Geneva in late March doesn’t feel as wild as a Las Vegas boulevard, but still there was a reasonable amount of gaming excitement at the EBU headquarters, where several events were following each other, beginning with a #dash Interoperability Forum meeting which was closely followed by the BroadThinking event, where industry actors and broadcasters come to show off their latest implementations advances and/or share the results of their real-life deployments or research studies. A good way of managing the transition between TV Connect and NAB…
Where Broadcast meets Broadband : that’s the promise of the EBU’s hybrid event which flies between industry competition, standardization efforts and broadcasters’ realpolitik – all wrapped in a warm and funny ambiance provided by the various speakers and the EBU team. The 2013 edition was a major success because it allowed the participants to get a rather good idea of the general trends of the industry, and at the same time to go deep in technology when needed, while having opportunities to discover edge tech demos on the lobby attending the conference room.


Feb032013February 3, 2013June 24, 20210Commentby Nicolas Weil

Player, encoding & repackaging strategies for multiscreen OTT projects

Posted in DRM, Encoding, OTT, Repackaging, Streaming, Workflow

Last December, I was speaking (in French – did my best for the English subtitles) during a webinar organized by DBee, which topic was “How to address the challenges of #multiscreen diffusion”…


Nov232012November 23, 2012January 18, 20151Commentby Nicolas Weil

OTT Video Services : Trends and Technologies [slide deck]

Posted in DRM, Encoding, OTT, Repackaging, Second-Screen, Streaming, Workflow

This study aims at isolating the main OTT Video Services trends (End-user driven & Production driven) and at pointing out relevant technologies with their maturity estimation and corresponding Vendor + Technology offer tuples.


Jun162012June 16, 2012August 28, 202115Commentsby Nicolas Weil

How to build a Netflix-like multiscreen OTT service (part 2)

Posted in OTT

As multiscreen OTT/TV Everywhere offers do proliferate while each video tradeshow approaches and connected devices multiply, it’s difficult to monitor all of them and get a 100% accurate idea on who’s got the best offer. Basically your ideal technical partner will most likely be a unique target depending on your background (telco/content owner/TV channel…), your needs (target devices, business models, time to market…), your workflow constraints (CMS, billing, deployed transcoding engines, already deployed apps…) and your budget. Nevertheless, what I tried to do first is to isolate a list of actors whose offer is end-to-end and sufficiently versatile to cover the most common use cases and devices, then provide a complementary list with actors who provide less information but are also known in this market, and then wrap up the post with a bunch of ideas on how you could DoItYourself with less integrated/locking-in solutions. This way, you will end-up with a complete panorama of available technical solutions in mind.


May062012May 6, 2012January 18, 20151Commentby Nicolas Weil

NAB 2012 OTT Advancements & Doubts

Posted in DRM, Encoding, OTT, Repackaging, Streaming, Workflow

NAB 2012 closed its doors two weeks ago, so it’s a good time to draw an appraisal on various themes concerning OTT issues, and especially premium OTT issues, that have been handled through industry technology offer during the tradeshow. Here we’ll go from production to distribution and examine the salient NAB facts and products, at least the ones which have a potential influence on OTT workflows evolution in the coming months (or years ?).


Feb132012February 13, 2012August 28, 20217Commentsby Nicolas Weil

How to build a Netflix-like multiscreen OTT service (part 1)

Posted in OTT

With the fall of Megaupload, legal VOD sites are quickly gaining back popularity as consumers are eager to watch fresh video contents on all their connected devices. If you are a content owner, a TV channel or a telco, it may be the right time to (re)launch you Multiscreen OTT VOD offer. This post intends to start from the reference tech choices in this game – Netflix’s ones – explain the major challenges of such type of service and the associated DRM issues, and finally drive you throughout the different market options you have to setup your own service on a close basis. Everything would have been easier if Netflix did sell its solution as a white label platform, but it’s not (yet) the case, so this leaves fun territories to explore !