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Five years ago this week… FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced that he would be stepping down on the day of President Trump’s inauguration, dealing a big blow to consumers with regards to net neutrality and the open set top initiative. And so began four years of Faultline fuming at practically every decision taken by Wheeler’s successor, Ajit Pai.   — Kaltura has squeezed another deal into the dying days of 2021, delivering its multiscreen platform to thematic channel producer Dreamia – a joint venture between AMC Networks International Southern Europe and Portuguese operator NOS. Dreamia has used the Kaltura TV Platform to launch kids OTT service Panda+ within four months, which has been made available to Portugal’s operators to offer…

Much of Faultline’s video technology audience may not have heard of bulk acoustic wave (BAW) technology, but as wireless communications creep ever higher up the spectrum bands, it is going to be increasingly important. The rise of WiFi 6E and 5G mean that this new, pricier form of radio frequency (RF) filter is going to be integral to future communications infrastructure. If we look at the relatively small pool of vendors producing BAW RF filters, one seems to be climbing the ranks fast. New York-based Akoustis has its eyes set on toppling Broadcom and Qorvo to become the new face of American BAW filters as it moves into mobile handsets, that is, if it can grow its production facility fast…

Haivision’s ‘Ultimate Guide to SRT’ landed in Faultline’s inbox with a splash, but it quickly became apparent that nothing is new with the Secure Reliable Transport low-latency streaming protocol, or ultimate for that matter. What we did learn from the glorified sales pitch is that an overwhelming 53% of the world’s broadcasters have now adopted SRT, according to Haivision’s own Broadcast IP Transformation survey, which is hardly a going to be an unbiased sample size. However, while emphasis is – as always – on the free and open-source code base of SRT, with no royalties or hidden subscription fees, this opportunity at 47% of broadcasters still to adopt SRT could be worth $billions to the SRT community. This is why…

A routine webinar on OTT challenges through four different vendor lenses seemed like a suitable way to sign off 2021, before it quickly escalated into a live love affair between 3SS and NPAW. The two video software specialists were a little too keen to showcase their flourishing lovechild, leaving the remaining two panelists from castLabs and Unified Streaming looking like spare wheels at times. Innuendos aside, there were some valuable takeaways from the discussion – particularly as panelists pooled their collective frustration into a missile fired directly towards the territories of smart TV manufacturers. Before we elaborate on the 3SS/NPAW relationship, the catalyst for this smart TV ire came from Bojan Jovanovic, Media Solutions Specialist at castLabs, who lambasted smart…

Norwegian broadcast technology vendor Appear was planning for IBC to be the stage on which it would unveil its new Neo line of server-based products – an evolution from the bespoke appliance offerings that have served its remote broadcast customer base for so many years. It was to be a big stage, festooned with the new corporate branding, to announce Neo to the world. But, alas, as we know, IBC did not go ahead, and so Appear did not get the chance to introduce some 30 new hires, swelling the count to some 170, to the rest of the industry. Appear’s CEO Thomas Jørgensen tells Faultline that the cancellation hurt, and when flipping the interview dynamic to ask us if…

When Synamedia announced a fortnight ago that Astro had launched the first addressable TV advertising service in South East Asia (excluding South Korea), what it really meant to say is that the this is the first customer for the Synamedia Iris product since it launched in August 2020. That is obviously significant for the vendor, although that should not distract us from the more important takeaways here in the broader context of addressable. Faultline caught up with Scott Kewley this week, Synamedia’s VP of Commercial Product Management, who helped forge the Synamedia Iris advertising business from the fires of the technology that formed Sky Ad Smart, and there was an early mutual decision during our call that the two should…

French software house Dotscreen has been a linchpin in video and audio UX development for more than a decade and yet somehow the name has featured only fleetingly in Faultline. One excuse is that Dotscreen has simply been too “busy” by its own accord focusing on being a front-end specialist and nothing else, according to co-founder Stanislas Leridon, which is a comment that instantly sparked a healthy discussion about Dotscreen’s product expansion roadmap – or more like a dead end. Most front-end vendor experts we speak with have either already diversified their product portfolio or have a roadmap to expand into areas like data-driven marketing, or CMS, or business intelligence, or ad insertion, or any back-end extension feature that might…

While RDK has achieved a lot of great things in 2021, the RDK Central community probably won’t thank us for summarizing this as the year the open source RDK video ecosystem became a lot more like Android TV. We have reached that consensus despite being deprived of a single physical demo from either camp this year (and last, for that matter), instead collating conversations with countless technology vendors of all flavors. Oh, and how could we forget Faultline’s infamous “hacking” scandal of an online RDK event earlier this year, as the panicked PR team worded it in an accusation, despite sending an invite straight to our inbox. That was certainly a 2021 highlight on our part. As for what’s new…