The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) ended off the year with a series of virtual conferences attended by over 1600 delegates across Asia Pacific, and its first in-person industry conference and dinner in over two years, Resilience 100, at the Grand Hyatt Singapore. The Asia Video Summit which was supported by Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as the Lead Sponsor was honoured to have Mr. Edward Yau, GBS, JP, Secretary for Commerce and … [Read more...] about Asia Video Summit wraps up a week of events highlighting the resilience of the industry
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Asia Video Summit returns with five component events to wrap up the year
The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA)’s marquee event of the year for the video industry, the Asia Video Summit, returns with a bang to wrap up a tumultuous year for media with five component events spread over two weeks and running the gamut of virtual, physical and hybrid. Kicking off this year’s Asia Video Summit will be the annual Policy Roundtable to be held on 11 November, which brings industry legal and policy experts together with regulatory officials from jurisdictions across the … [Read more...] about Asia Video Summit returns with five component events to wrap up the year
Axom goes live with Synamedia’s video processing solutions to add new channels and optimize bandwidth
Synamedia, the world’s largest independent video software provider announced that Axom Communication & Cable has gone live with Synamedia Converged Headend and software-based Digital Content Manager (DCM) to enhance its video services in the northeast region of India, including adding 177 new channels. Axom chose Synamedia’s DCM encoding solution because of its ability to maximize picture quality with the smallest hardware footprint using Synamedia’s industry-leading VIVID compression and … [Read more...] about Axom goes live with Synamedia’s video processing solutions to add new channels and optimize bandwidth
Synamedia acquires ContentArmor to strengthen its video security portfolio with edge and 5G watermarking
Synamedia, the world’s largest independent video software provider, announced it has acquired ContentArmor, a leading privately-held developer of forensic watermarking solutions for the media and entertainment industry. By adding ContentArmor’s technology, patents and expertise to its broad portfolio of security offerings, including its Synamedia EverGuard anti-piracy services, Synamedia is now uniquely placed to meet video service providers’ edge and 5G security demands. Additionally, it … [Read more...] about Synamedia acquires ContentArmor to strengthen its video security portfolio with edge and 5G watermarking
Moving the media and entertainment industry to the cloud
This story appears in the March-April 2021 issue of Television Asia Plus. Amazon Web Services (AWS) CTO, Werner Vogels recently predicted that this year, the cloud would become ubiquitous. In the media and entertainment (M&E) industry, as demand for content increases and consumers shift between platforms faster than ever, businesses have already embraced cloud technology, including the use of AI and machine learning, to enable remote production and distribution of content, providing an … [Read more...] about Moving the media and entertainment industry to the cloud
Synamedia Go unlocks value from platforms to boost subscriber loyalty
Synamedia unveiled Synamedia Go, a modular suite of data-driven SaaS services that provide a frictionless way for pay-TV operators and OTT/D2C streaming providers to rapidly augment and create value from their technology platforms. Based on a flexible, ‘add and go’ architecture, each service is designed to achieve a significant return on investment with minimal effort. The first services out of the blocks are Go.Aggregate and Go.Experiment. Targeted at commercial, product and editorial teams, … [Read more...] about Synamedia Go unlocks value from platforms to boost subscriber loyalty