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Greenland’s national broadcaster Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (KNR) has signed a new strategic agreement with Nxtedition, continuing its partnership for another five years. Serving an audience of 56,000, KNR produces high-quality TV and radio content with limited resources. Nxtedition provides services from pre-production and ingest to graphics and automation. NXTEDITION SUPPLIES GREENLAND
Agile Content attacks piracy SECURITY
Agile Content has launched its anti-piracy solution Agile CDN Director, at Telenor Sweden, allowing the telco company to block thousands of invalid requests per day. Piracy is on the rise in the OTT sector, with television piracy representing 48% of access to infringing sites in the EU in 2022 alone, so solutions like Agile’s come at a critical moment. Agile Content’s CDN Director is an evolution of its previous product, introducing new features like real-time caching, network switching and experience
monitoring. The solution also blocks hackers, transmitting content only to authorised users: a perk noted by Telenor Sweden. The CDN Director thus adds an extra security layer, protecting Telenor’s own CDN and its authorised users in turn. Furthermore, Agile’s CDN Director improves Telenor Sweden’s efficiency, delivering its television services more swiftly by offloading its capacity to sister company Telenor Norway’s CDN. This ensures that customers will not experience any interruptions.
INDUSTRY DOMESTIC WIN FOR PARAMOUNT
After Warner Bros Discovery failed to acquire it, Paramount has finally regained its domestic profitability thanks in large part to streaming service Paramount+. Rather than focusing on local-language programming, the streamer is relying on Hollywood films – and integration of Showtime – to maintain its consumer appeal.
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CBS19 CHOOSES BLACKBIRD
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In light of Apple launching its Vision Pro headset, Adobe has announced that various tools and technologies will be compatible with the XR goggles. Supported applications include Adobe Firefly, Lightroom, Fresco and Behance, allowing VisionOS users to enjoy a more immersive creative experience. VR ADOBE TOOLS FOR APPLE VISION PRO CBS19, a TV station located in Charlottesville, VA, has chosen the browser-based editing platform Blackbird for its broadcast and digital workflows. The CBS19 team will have remote access to field footage, wire packages and IP/ SDI feeds via Blackbird’s edit suite, allowing them to collaborate on projects and publish content in real time.
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EU passes Digital Markets Act
Ateliere Creative Technologies has recently announced Ignition, its latest media workflow engine that handles title/media ingest, order processing, packaging, transcoding, quality control, packaging, distribution and more. The engine is included in Ateliere’s Connect platform subscription. Ignition comes with three key features: Manager, Designer and Monitor. Manager includes built-in best practices, automating several elements of a user’s workflow. Designer is a drag-and-drop editor which allows users to create visual representations of their workflows. The platform’s dashboard, or Monitor, allows them to view these representations and track progress in real time. Ateliere unveils Ignition workflow
In the interest of demonopolisation and net neutrality, the EU has passed the Digital Markets Act (DMA), targeted at big tech ‘gatekeepers.’ The Act will force companies open, allowing users to use rival services – for example, a non-Microsoft default search engine on Microsoft Windows or non-Apple app store on an iPhone. The legislation limits data sharing between services owned by one company (such as Meta-owned Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp). If these companies don’t comply, the EU can fine them up to 20% of global sales revenue, or take a more aggressive approach, forcing the companies to pawn off sections of their business. Apple, Meta and the Bytedance-owned TikTok have pushed back against the DMA, claiming it places an unfair target on their services. For EU residents, it won’t be simpler. Users may be spoilt for choice, losing the convenience of default settings.
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