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Twitter inks sports
content deals in Asia
SINGAPORE – Twitter has an-
nounced nine new sports content
partnerships in Asia-Pacific, which
will see content from the likes of
Astro Malaysia and Eleven Sports
Singapore featured on its social
media platform.
BT Sport trials HD HDR
LONDON – For a recent UEFA
Champions League football match
at London’s Wembley Stadium, BT
Sports showcased what it calls the
“world’s first” HD HDR broadcast
to mobile, via a 4G network. HD
HDR is said to provide a better
mobile experience and is less
data intensive for both the mobile
network and the user’s data con-
sumption than 4K/Ultra HD.
‘Word of mouth’ key to
content discovery
LOS ANGELES – A new report
from data analytics firm Parrot
Analytics has revealed that ‘word
of mouth’ recommendations are
still the predominant way new
content is discovered, on both
offline and online platforms.
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Stay resolute in fight to
preserve C-band for FSS
BY SHAWN LIEW
WASHINGTON – Satel-
lite service providers
Intelsat and SES have
announced an align-
ment on a proposal
to the US Federal
Communications
Commission (FCC),
which seeks to
“protect the wide
array of established
satellite services in the
3700-4200MHz C-band
downlink spectrum while
opening a specified portion
of that spectrum for terrestrial
mobile use.”
As 5G networks
The proposal, announced
are being
readied for
earlier this year, builds on an
roll-out around
initial proposal put forth by
the world, there have been calls to allocate
Intelsat and Intel last Octo-
more spectrum for mobile services, including
C-band spectrum. However, in regions such as ber, and sets a commercial
and technical framework
Asia-Pacific, C-band satellite services remain
vital in reaching out to large populations.
that would enable wireless
operators to quickly access ap-
proximately 100MHz of nationwide
C-band downlink spectrum in the
US, thus speeding the deployment
of next-generation 5G services, said
Intelsat and SES.
It is widely expected that by
2020 a number of 5G networks
will be launched globally — and
they will require more spectrum
to operate in.
What this new proposal entails
is the voluntary clearing of satel-
lite users from the 3700-3800MHz
in order to accommodate ter-
restrial mobile services, an APSCC
spokesperson told APB. “Under
this proposal, the remaining 3800-
4200MHz of the C-band would be
secured for satellite use, and fair
compensation would be paid to
the affected parties.
“This ensures that most of the
standard C-band can still be used
to support the thousands of US
cable and broadcast channels be-
ing distributed via C-band satellites
today.”
The proposals from Intel, Intel-
sat and SES are a respond to spe-
cific conditions in the US, highlights
John Mederios, chief policy officer,
CASBAA. These conditions, he ex-
plained, include huge geographic
scope covered by a single regulator,
and across temperate zones that
predominately do not experience
tropical rains.
“While other regulators will no
doubt study the US model when it
is fully implemented, it is not a tem-
plate for solutions that could be
imported to the rest of the world,”
Mederios said. “More specifically, it
is not a scheme that could be used
successfully in the tropical zones of
Asia-Pacific.”
In this region, C-band satellites
continue to play an “irreplaceable
role” in ensuring video distribution
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Is IP for real-time media right for you?
SINGAPORE – The transition to 100% IP infra-
structure in media facilities is certainly inevitable,
said Michel Proulx, media industry technologist
and ex-CTO of Miranda Technologies.
This transition, he told APB, is being driven
by several factors, including systems used in
TV production and playout becoming increas-
ingly software-based. “In some instances, the
software systems are being virtualised so that
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easier to transition to software and virtualised
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He also identified the emergence of
“economically priced” 25/100GE, and soon
100/200GE networking products, which make it
possible for broadcasters to build signal routing
infrastructure that supports both HD and 4K/
Ultra HD (UHD) signals economically.
“The idea of any infrastructure that is format-
agnostic and future-proof is of great interest for
most broadcasters as the transition to 4K/UHD
is likely to occur slowly over the next five to10
years,” said Proulx, while acknowledging that
the transition to IP for uncompressed media
transport is “still very young”.
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