In this issue...

• It’s time for business in the multiscreen world
• Ensuring how quality is ensured on multiple platforms
• Beating the path from hardware to software
• Why broadcasters can cash in from analytics
• Quality takes a further step up

Rapid TV Everywhere: Inaugural edition

• The New Generation of Multiscreen Television
• Balancing content protection and usability
• Meetings today’s priorities for today’s multiscreen viewer
• OTT - The European over the top shop window opens
• On-screen graphics - Vision On for multiscreen

Content:

• Is software still eating broadcast technology?
• The long and winding road to UltraHD 2
• How can operators deal with the mobile video revolution?
• TV everywhere: from experimentation to expectation and execution
• Limiting latency, the potential hidden killer of online video
• Social TV is here to stay
• How content providers can drive value from data
• Plugging security leaks in the 9 4K age
• Breaking down the barriers to digital ad insertion
• Content and engineering: the driving force behind internet video

With the intent to revolutionize their touch point within subscribers' homes, television service providers are aiming to deliver richer and more compelling connected video experiences across any IP device...

We’ll look at the general trends and market dynamics of the key enableonig technology and services for TV and broadcasting. Drawing on NAB 2014, we look at how 4K is developing and inspiring even higher standards of image quality; software designed video processing; content protection content; distribution, delivery; over the top services; and, most crucially monetisation.

Mobile networks around the world are about to deliver on their promises for TV and video. Download this preview on Mobile World Congress 2014 to see just how the latest industry developments will affect business opportunities and shape future consumer expectations for mobile TV and video.

Click here to check out our special view of the TV and video industry in 2014. Drawing on CES 2014, we’ll look at what’s likely to inspire the TV and broadcast industry in the next twelve months, focusing on issues such as UltraHD, second-screen and potential winning business models. We hope we can provide a good roadmap for the year ahead.

The 4K/UltraHD industry is making a faster than anticipated transition towards the next step change in broadcasting. Further evidence of this comes in the 2013 SMPTE Symposium featuring what the association calls the largest collection of 4K/UltraHD equipment yet presented in a single room. Click here to read a special insight into the business of 4K.

The general dynamics of the 4KTV market and why the grounds for optimism are realistic. We look at 4K image acquisition, content, delivery and in-home distribution; how advances in compression standards, most notably HEVC, will open up the telco and IPTV markets for 4K and examine what the likely business challenges to 4KTV will be.