The Mobile Revolution is Underway

Recent research has revealed something extraordinary in the broadcasting world. Over the past five years the consumption of video on mobile devices and other handhelds has risen by an enormous 2084%, with no signs of slowing down. The spike in the last quarter of 2015 was an impressive 35% and it has brought the cumulative bump to 170% since 2013.

The millennials, the first real ‘mobile generation’, are driving the popularity of live and recorded video streaming on devices that fit in their pockets. This segment is always on the move and prefers to stay in the know by catching up with global events and important trends not only through videos on YouTube and other websites, or through branded visual content created by companies as part of their marketing outreach, but by watching live breaking news made available by local stations or national networks.

These tendencies give rise to a unique set of challenges for video marketers: 

• The devices preferred by millennials vary vastly. Some like to stick to the 5 inch screen on their mobile phone, while others enjoy the greater size and resolution available on an iPad or other tablet. Videos should satisfy a spectrum of resolution requirements to serve different users and their handhelds of choice.
• Internet and Wi-Fi connectivity varies greatly from place to place, and even from time to time in the same place. Metropolitan areas will typically have much better bandwidth and download speeds than more rural areas. A video that stutters and lags is likely to be counter-productive, destroying not only the entertainment value but any commercial value the video may have. This problem is especially acute for real-time video, which must be encoded dynamically either with best quality in a least common denominator format, or simultaneously encoded in multiple formats for multiple client devices.

Telairity Mobile Encoders are the Future: 

With its three encoding systems, namely the BE8600 contributions encoders , the SES3200 dense encoding system, and the multichannel BE8700 distribution encoder, Telairity provides powerful solutions for real-time mobile video.

• The compact “go anywhere” single-channel BE8600 encoder is easy to deploy anywhere needed to capture live camera output for redistribution. With a choice of resolution standards and audio codecs, it can always provide the right combination of picture and sound for mobile devices. 
• Video feeds passed through the cloud to the SES3200 can be simultaneously rendered in up to 32 formats and resolutions to simultaneously service both fixed and mobile screens of all types and sizes. 
• Less extensive formatting requirements can be satisfied by direct or cloud-based feeds to the BE8700 for simultaneous 4-way rendering, using Telairity’s optimized distribution encoding for the highest quality real-time images at low bitrates.

If need reliable, real-time equipment able to service mobile in addition to standard broadcast needs, the streamlined Telairity video encoders tick all the checkboxes. Please contact us here for more information. 

Telairity’s NAB Show

We’re heading back to the NAB Show next weekend in Vegas. We certainly mean it to seem like a victory lap, but it was only last year we emerged from the same event as the reigning, award-winning champion innovators. Our SES3200 encoder, then only in prototype, transfixed more than one set of eyebrows with its high-performing speed, pictorial quality, and extraordinarily high compression. Built on the ATCA chassis, a container application intended for the Telecommunications industry, and using a 48V power supply, the digital encoder was revolutionary in its cost-effectiveness, reliability, and performance quality, and rightfully garnered TV Technology’s NAB 2011 STAR“Prestigious Technology” award. Even at the prototype level, experts in the field recognized the SES3200 for what it was – a game-changer for digital compression.

With the advent of bandwidth-hogging, high-quality multimedia wireless devices such as Google Android and Apple’s iPhone, the battle for high-speed bandwidth has grown intense, with many powerful computer, telecommunications, and media broadcasting companies vying for a limited amount of bandwidth. While the largest companies in the industry have sought to buy up as much bandwidth from smaller companies (as well as from lucrative government bandwidth auctions), there is still an ever-growing need to meet the inevitable constraints on capacity. The only solution to get beyond those constraints is to reduce the bit rate of digital encoders while still maintaining the quality.

That’s exactly what we managed to pull off last year in Vegas, and that was only with a prototype. Now that our SES3200 encoders are set to hit the market, we’re convinced the technology will revolutionize (in a very practical manner) the means by which encoding gets implemented. The fact is, we managed to build HDTV encoders that have the in-built high-quality broadcasting standards of the telecommunications industry. Just like the telco industry, our ATCA chassis-based encoders have a 99.999% of connectivity. That’s a high rate of success. That’s the rate of success we plan on distributing worldwide. Here’s to another great year for Telairity at NAB.