Category: Broadcast

Media and entertainment (M&E) customers continue to face challenges in creating more content, more quickly, and distributing it to more endpoints than ever before in their quest to delight viewers globally. Amazon Web Services (AWS), along with AWS Partners, have showcased the rapid evolution of M&E solutions for years at industry events like the National […]

Warner Bros. Discovery delivered innovative and expansive coverage of the Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 Olympic Games to millions of viewers. Using flexible and scalable compute services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Warner Bros. Discovery streamed over 1.3 billion minutes of Tokyo 2020 content and 1 billion minutes of Beijing 2022 content. For Tokyo 2020, […]

AWS is pleased to announce expanded feature support for Key-Length-Value (KLV) metadata processing in AWS Media Services and AWS Elemental Appliances & Software. While KLV has long been supported in AWS Elemental products and services, we’ve recently added new ways to carry KLV information in video workflows. If you are not already familiar with KLV, […]

Take your business to the next level with the help of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partners as they demonstrate new solutions for media and entertainment built on AWS at IBC 2023. From 15 to 18 September at the RAI: Amsterdam, learn more about these media and entertainment solutions designed to simplify how industry […]

Demonstrations, customer presentations, and a variety of panel discussions illustrate the power of the cloud in creating, delivering, and monetizing compelling content experiences As professionals across the global media and entertainment (M&E) industry prepare for the annual International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) 2023 in Amsterdam September 15–18, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is unveiling an exciting lineup […]

This blog was coauthored by Michael Prendergast, CTO and Co-Founder, Spalk. Introduction A compelling sports broadcast is built on storytelling and commentators are the guides to these stories, helping viewers experience the narratives playing out on screen. Only recently have commentators enjoyed the flexibility of working remotely, allowing them to broadcast for leagues around the world […]

Introduction RTMP stands for Real-Time Messaging Protocol. It’s a live video streaming technology that lets you transfer data over the internet and is a widely used protocol for streaming video. Customers may want to create interactive experiences with video originating from specialized live cameras or drones that do not support RTMP streaming. A workaround is […]

This post was co-authored by Giovanni Galvez, VP of Business Development and Strategy, SyncWords. Introduction Adding captions to live streaming events is not something new to the industry. There are well-established workflows to add captions to video feeds by using specialized hardware encoders to embed the captions. These workflows can create challenges for live event […]

The need for resilient technology workloads transcends all industries. It is particularly important for the media and entertainment (M&E) industry because disruption of media workloads may lead to customer churn or brand tarnish. A misunderstanding of resilience as a concept can lead to workloads that may not have resilient architecture or workloads that are over-engineered. […]

In April 2022, AWS introduced the Live Cloud Production Initiative (formerly known as the Virtual Live Remote Production Initiative) to bridge technology gaps and expand our broadcast solution portfolio in collaboration with AWS partners. The aim is to deliver outcomes that benefit our current and future partners, customers, and the M&E community. Because of the […]