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Independent analysis, technical explainers, and practical insights into the technologies and challenges shaping live media.
TV Globo's experimental TV 3.0 broadcasts exposed a physical-layer capacity failure. Five service-quality checks for next-generation broadcast operations.
Kyle Suess
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MS NOW launched its live linear feed on five connected-TV platforms before the midterms. Five operational checks for authentication, playback and election-night reliability.
Kyle Suess
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After Bundesliga's Playmobil Bayern-Dortmund broadcast, sports operators should test tracking freshness, audio sync, graphics, fallback and regional delivery.
Kyle Suess
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Ampere says 65% of Netflix's acquired titles come from non-English-speaking markets. Five localization QC checks help OTT teams verify every release.
Kyle Suess
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The ITU's 2026 timing handbook and 2027 UTC change put broadcast PTP resilience in focus. Test grandmasters, holdover, network paths and logs.
Kyle Suess
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ATSC 3.0 encryption is raising EAS receiver-access questions ahead of November 17. Check the station-to-receiver evidence chain and FCC filing deadlines.
Kyle Suess
Read the articleThe agentic AI and DMF sessions worth your badge at IBC 2026, the five questions to ask vendors on the floor, and the Amsterdam logistics nobody tells you.
Kyle Suess
Read the articleA practical guide to local AI for video, covering bandwidth, latency, privacy, resilience, capacity planning and the workloads better left in the cloud.
Kyle Suess
Read the articleLearn how live video agents observe broadcast feeds, ground decisions in evidence, hand actions to production tools and remain under operator control.
Kyle Suess
Read the articleA field-ready scorecard for testing live production agents at IBC 2026, covering latency, failure handling, human control and operational fit.
Kyle Suess
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Build a managed playout acceptance plan for feed handoffs, schedule changes, regional versions, incidents, recovery and independent evidence.
Kyle Suess
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Build an SSAI and SGAI verification plan that reconciles cues, ad decisions, playback, slate, programme return and measurement across real devices.
Kyle Suess
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Test live vertical sports video for framing, scorebugs, captions, sponsors, latency and fallback before approving automated 9:16 delivery.
Kyle Suess
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Build a broadcast AI ROI case with a measured baseline, full-cost model and clear scale, extend or stop gates for an operations pilot.
Kyle Suess
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Evaluate AI video search for broadcasters with source checks, timecodes, access controls and an archive test plan that measures usable clips, not demos.
Kyle Suess
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Multilingual live sports need more than translation. Check language, meaning, audio tracks, captions, delay and fallback before adding another live output.
Kyle Suess
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Evaluate AI broadcast monitoring before you buy. Test wrong feeds, caption errors, alert delays and operator workload with a practical IBC buyer's checklist.
Kyle Suess
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Cloud repatriation for media: select workloads, test savings, check exit costs and migrate with production safeguards, acceptance gates and a rollback plan.
Kyle Suess
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Small LLMs for the newsroom can draft metadata, summaries and headlines locally. Compare current models, source checks and the pilot metrics that matter.
Kyle Suess
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Compare the broadcast inference stack: vLLM, SGLang and TensorRT-LLM under sustained load. Test concurrency, queues and deadlines before approving production.
Kyle Suess
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