HEVC Royalties Reconsidered, Sprint Bows Out, $4.1 Billion Play

TV TECHNOLOGY NEWSBYTES   Trouble seeing this email?       Serving the Broadcast, Production, Broadband, Satellite and Mobile Markets     TODAY'S TOP STORIES - 09.28.15     Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor   Quote of the Day: "If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything." ~ Bill Lyon On this Day: In 2008, Falcon 1, the first privately developed spacecraft, was launched into orbit.   HEVC Advance Reconsiders Royalty Structure HEVC Advance, the patent pool formed to administer licenses for the High Efficiency Video Codec, is rethinking its controversial fee structure. Sprint Will Sit Out Broadcast Spectrum Auction Sprint will not participate in the upcoming FCC broadcaster incentive auction, the company announced Saturday... Media General to Consider Nexstar's $4.1 Billion Bid Media General this morning confirmed the unolicited $4.1 billion acquisition offer from Nexstar Broadcasting, and said it would think about it and get back to shareholders.     Netflix to Spend $6 Billion Annually on Content Ampere predicts Netflix will begin to spend less on acquired content in 2017, but expects Netflix and Amazon to spend $9 billion per year on content by 2020. Register Now for the News Technology Summit in Atlanta Join us at the Sheraton Atlanta Oct. 7-8 for this fall's annual News Technology Summit. Apply here for an exclusive invitation, and bring your questions! Registration Now Open for Government Video Expo & National Drone Show Registration is open for the 2015 Government Video Expo and National Drone Show, Dec. 1-3 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. more news »     NEWS & TECHNOLOGY     TEAMWORK: BroadStream and Bannister Lake Team Up With SuperTicker 4KTV: ActonTV Adds 4K Cameras to PEG Channel Production 4KTV: Rohde & Schwarz Aids UHD Transmission FCC: Wheeler Names Weiner as New Senior Legal Advisor NAB2016: Registration Opens for 2016 NAB Show   Industry Roundup     Facebook's Oculus Says Gaming Is Just One Thing You'll Do in Virtual Reality (MIT Technology Review) FCC's O'Rielly to Speak at Radio Show (Radio World) House Media Ownership Hearing to Be Continued (B&C) Cinema Staff to Patrol Screenings With Night-Vision Goggles to Combat Movie Piracy (International Business Times) Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to Debate in Virtual Reality, Courtesy of CNN (Ad Age)   TV Technology Resource Center White Papers     "Myth and Reality of Auto-Correction in File-based Workflows" from Interra Systems attempts to shed light on auto-QC tools. "Video Dropouts and the Challenges they Pose to Video Quality Assessment" from Interra Systems explores various kinds of video dropouts, the source of these errors, and the challenges encountered in detection of these errors. "High Speed Bridge to Cloud Storage" is a new ebook from Signiant that introduces Signiant Flight (previously known as SkyDrop), a SaaS solution for accelerated transfer of content to and from cloud storage. "Controlling and Monitoring Studio Displays" from Orad describes the implementation of the Orad TD Control studio display in The Weather Channel's new Atlanta studio. TV Technology and Broadcast Engineering Publish IP Transition Study with Grass Valley The results indicated a strong current level of IP technology deployment and a trend toward increasing utilization.   News Expertise Opinions Equipment Show News Resources Subscribe   Advertise Contact Us Send this to a friend       ©2015 NewBay Media, LLC

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