Recent Posts by Jason Dachman

IBC Q&A: SES’s Wrede Throws Support Behind HLG for HDR UHD, Looks to the Power of VR

Looking toward the future, SES is providing demos of Ultra HD (UHD) with high dynamic range (HDR) on the exhibit floor and a demonstration of brand-new virtual-reality R&D via satellite in conjunction with Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) Berlin. The first UHD demo offered a test channel with content produced by LG Electronics (launched in […]  More

IBC Q&A: Akamai’s Bishop on Rio 2016 streaming, future of live 4K, VR streaming

Akamai Technologies arrived at IBC 2016 fresh off a historic effort at Rio 2016, where NBC Olympics leveraged the company’s content-delivery network (CDN) and technology to support a monumental streaming operation, which comprises 3.3 billion total streaming minutes, 2.71 billion of them live. Also, 100 million unique users tuned in to NBC Olympics’ digital coverage over […]  More

IBC Q&A: SES’s Wrede Throws Support Behind HLG for HDR UHD, Looks to the Power of VR

Looking toward the future, SES is providing demos of Ultra HD (UHD) with high dynamic range (HDR) on the exhibit floor and a demonstration of brand-new virtual-reality R&D via satellite in conjunction with Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) Berlin. The first UHD demo offered a test channel with content produced by LG Electronics (launched in […]  More

IBC Q&A: IBM Cloud Video’s David Clevinger Explains How Watson Is Auto Closed Captioning the U.S. Open

Over the past year, IBM has made building out its cloud-video technology platform a top priority, acquiring live-streaming outlet UStream in January, video-management startup ClearLeap in December 2015, and object-storage service Cleversafe in October. Earlier this year IBM combined those three entities with high-speed file-transfer provider Aspera, which IBM bought in late 2013, to form IBM Cloud […]  More

IBC Q&A: IBM Cloud Video’s David Clevinger Explains How Watson Is Auto Closed Captioning the U.S. Open

Over the past year, IBM has made building out its cloud-video technology platform a top priority, acquiring live-streaming outlet UStream in January, video-management startup ClearLeap in December 2015, and object-storage service Cleversafe in October. Earlier this year IBM combined those three entities with high-speed file-transfer provider Aspera, which IBM bought in late 2013, to form IBM Cloud […]  More

IBC Q&A: IBM Cloud Video’s Clevinger explains how Watson automates closed captioning at US Open

Over the past year, IBM has made building out its cloud-video technology platform a top priority, acquiring object-storage service Cleversafe in October 2015 (now known as IBM Cloud Object Storage), video-management startup ClearLeap in December 2015, and live-streaming outlet UStream in January of this year. In conjunction with the Ustream acquisition, IBM combined Ustream and Clearleap to create the IBC Cloud Video […]  More

IBC Q&A: IBM Cloud Video’s Clevinger explains how Watson automates closed captioning at US Open

Over the past year, IBM has made building out its cloud-video technology platform a top priority, acquiring object-storage service Cleversafe in October 2015 (now known as IBM Cloud Object Storage), video-management startup ClearLeap in December 2015, and live-streaming outlet UStream in January of this year. In conjunction with the Ustream acquisition, IBM combined Ustream and Clearleap to create the IBC Cloud Video […]  More

IBC Spotlight: Scale Logic CEO Bob Herzan Commits to NDI for IP, Forecasts Future of Object Storage

Scale Logic firmly planted its flag on the IP landscape at IBC this week, announcing that will now support software-driven IP workflows using NewTek’s Network Device Interface. SLI will integrate NDI into both SYNERGY and the Genesis product line, making them recognizable as a source by any other NDI-enabled applications and devices connected to a […]  More

IBC Spotlight: Scale Logic CEO Herzan commits to NDI for IP, forecasts future of object storage

Scale Logic firmly planted its flag on the IP landscape at IBC this week, announcing that it will now support software-driven IP workflows using NewTek’s Network Device Interface. SLI will integrate NDI into both SYNERGY and the Genesis product line, making them recognizable as a source by any other NDI-enabled applications and devices connected to […]  More

IBC Spotlight: Scale Logic CEO Herzan commits to NDI for IP, forecasts future of object storage

Scale Logic firmly planted its flag on the IP landscape at IBC this week, announcing that it will now support software-driven IP workflows using NewTek’s Network Device Interface. SLI will integrate NDI into both SYNERGY and the Genesis product line, making them recognizable as a source by any other NDI-enabled applications and devices connected to […]  More