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ENTERTAINING FRANCE Among the many negatives and problems for businesses caused by the coronavirus, there have been a select few businesses that have thrived because of a market stuck at home. One of these is French Altnet, Videofutur. With millions of French people under strict lockdown, internet usage has increased dramatically to offer access to information and entertainment. Since the start of the lockdown period, Videofutur has been working around the clock to offer more content to its customers – predominantly education, information and entertainment. Videofutur ’s CEO, Mathias Hautefort, VIDEOFUTUR lafibrevideofutur.fr
said: “All our teams are determined to help our customers at home – through Safe@home programme of work.” Videofutur has seen usage increase by up to 50%, which has most likely been caused by the launch of the live and on-demand kids content service from France.TV, new channels from broadcaster Turner, and special ‘Cinema at home’ offers from Dreamworks and many other studios. “Our content selection and choices are driven directly by employees of Videofutur who share exactly the same challenges as our customers, as well as their desires during this difficult crisis for everyone.” added Hautefort.
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FIGHTING THE PIRATES TV platform and OTT provider Viaccess- Orca (VO) has revealed a new ebook, Fighting piracy across the globe: spotlight on Spain . VO is a self-confessed expert on anti-piracy and the ebook is an interesting read for providers suffering from mass-piracy. But why the focus on Spain? According to EUIPO, the agency
responsible for registering and upholding intellectual property rights, more than 6% of the Spanish population (2.16 million people) use unauthorised IPTV to watch their favourite video content. With a long history of combatting video piracy, VO’s security technologies help operators fight digital piracy and recently passed Cartesian’s rigorous
Farncombe Security Watermark process. The ebook also identifies how operators and broadcasters in Spain can decrease revenue loss to piracy by implementing end-to-end DRM content protection solutions for connected devices. Viaccess-Orca’s ebook is available to download at viaccess-orca.com/fighting- piracy-across-the-globe-ebook-olp
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SCISYS BECOMES CGI Last month, SCISYS Media Solutions (formerly Annova Systems and SCISYS Deutschland) transformed into CGI. The new brand will continue to support the global broadcast community with its newsroom and radio experience, combined with global IT capabilities. CGI’s news and radio production solutions support remote working, helping journalists research, structure and plan deliveries, optimising broadcaster efforts around the world. “Now more than ever, with the fluctuation of the global economy and the ongoing health pandemic,
broadcasters are under extreme pressures both editorially and financially, while users are experiencing rapid digitisation as TV meets radio and merges with online and social,” said Michael Thielen, VP Media – Radio Solutions at CGI. The newsroom system, OpenMedia, is a tool for cross-media research, planning and creation of daily news, magazines and sports publications globally, and has been upgraded to include integrations into third- party systems, such as Avid MediaCentral Platform, Grass Valley Go! and more. For radio journalism, the dira! product family covers the whole production workflow and sees the introduction of two new features in the dira! Onair Player.
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