4 TVBEurope
www.tvbeurope.com January 2015
In this issue
35 Mobile TV Heather McLean looks at the growth in video streaming and the importance of LTE Broadcast for mobile TV
Feature
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Melanie Dayasena-Lowe talks to QuickPlay Media’s Mark Hyland on the latest innovations in mobile video content, monetisation opportunities and trends in mobile content
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12-17 TVBEverywhere
Miles Weaver, Piksel’s innovation programme strategist, takes a look back at the predictions he made for 2014, gives his verdict on their accuracy, and recaps on the industry’s important developments
6-10 Opinion & Analysis
42 Robotics Forum
Sue Thexton, senior vice president of Brightcove in EMEA, assesses the landscape for women in broadcast, and asks why there remains an imbalance in the ratio of males and females across the sector
Robotic systems have been around for some time, but the technology is ever improving as demands increase from broadcasters. Philip Stevens moderates this month’s discussion
Presenting parliamentary proceedings To commemorate 25 years of broadcasting the UK parliament, Philip Stevens traces the history and reviews the challenges
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38 Feature
50 Data Centre
The question taxing the minds of broadcast CTOs is whether virtualised playout is as secure, as highly available, and as cost effective right now as existing hardware-based provision. Adrian Pennington reports
Abigail Cruz of SNL Kagan puts the spotlight on Poland’s burgeoning OTT market where domestic broadcasters have started leveraging online catch-up TV services to increase and diversify viewership