AWS for M&E Blog
Author: Laura Barber
Laura leads global market relations and PR for AWS emerging tech.
San Francisco Opera makes beautiful music with Elk LIVE, AWS edge computing, and 5G
Demonstration shows the power of AWS edge computing for a distributed performance Music is built on a framework of time. To maintain the beat, tempo, swing, groove, and storyline, musicians depend on reliable and consistent timing. Opera is one of the most precise artforms in the music world and relies on ultra-low latencies for real-time […]
2020 Technology and Engineering Emmy® Awards Recognize AWS as Video Streaming Skyrockets
Amidst the chaos of 2020, millions more people sought their news, information, sports, and entertainment via online video. This was evidenced by on-demand subscriptions up a record-setting 39% to 770 million viewers around the world. Overall video streaming increased in all regions, with Conviva reporting that time spent streaming in the fourth quarter of 2020 […]
Zixi live streams 4K content on the 5G Edge with AWS Wavelength
Sports fans and entertainment buffs have a high bar for their live streaming experiences, demanding outstanding performances on any device, quick start times, and no buffering. Viewers also want more live streamed content than ever, and, increasingly, in vivid 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD) resolution. These applications require ultra-low latencies in order to deliver high-quality […]
Animation Research uses AWS to virtualize remote sports production
AWS also helps ARL’s Virtual Eye production arm to reduce its carbon footprint while delivering high-profile sports events to fans around the world Virtual Eye is the sports division of New Zealand-based Animation Research, LTD, which is one of Australasia’s leading 3D computer graphics production houses. For more than 25 years, Emmy® Award-winning Virtual Eye […]
The Cloud Media Supply Chain Technology and Engineering Emmy Award® goes to…
… Discovery and FOX NE&O (Walt Disney Television), along with AWS and AWS partners SDVI Corporation and Evertz Technologies! With the 2020 awards season in full swing, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) today released the much-anticipated list of Technology and Engineering Emmy Award recipients. Among those receiving the 71st Technology and […]
Expanded cloud media workflow for live streaming from space successfully tested during SMPTE 2019
Proof-of-concept developed in collaboration with AWS marks first use of cloud resources for data storage and video origination for streaming from space LOS ANGELES and WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Oct. 24, 2019 — Today at SMPTE 2019, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) successfully tested a workflow that marks the first use […]