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A music performance is something you listen to, sure. But it′s also something you watch. And there are more and more ways now to use video to bring musical acts big and small right to fans – in the case of virtural reality, bringing fans right into the musical act. In this issue we look at some of the innovative ways of using new technology to get music fans that front row seat. This is also our cloud issue. Cloud is so ubiquitous now that to say a technology uses the cloud doesn′t tell you very much – it′s almost like saying that a technology uses electricity. All cloud really means is computing power that isn′t under your roof. It′s computing power as utility, not as discrete process. We′ll take a look at microservices in the cloud, which are allowing media companies of all types and all sizes to implement complex workflows that only big broadcasters could afford five years ago, and we′ll investigate how AI and cloud are combining to turn content creation and distribution on their heads. Finally, you may have heard the news about the closure of FilmStruck, Turner′s streaming platform that was an outlet for Turner Classic Movies content and for the universally revered Criterion Collection. It somehow doesn′t seem right that the on-demand access to such a culturally and historically rich vein of content should suddenly vanish. But that's what happens when all your eggs go into one online basket... VIDEO AT THE VENUE
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