Full Name
Paul Briscoe
Job Title
Other
Company
TAG Video Systems
Speaker Bio
Joining the industry 1980 in the Engineering department of CBC Television and specializing in the emerging domains of digital television and CGI, he was a lead infrastructure and facility designer of the Toronto Broadcast Center, utilizing the then-new SDI infrastructure. He joined Leitch Technology (today Imagine Communications) in 1994 and over his 19 years he managed product R&D and led Standards activities. He went on to several years of consulting and continuation of Standards work including the 2059 and 2110 interop projects. Since mid-2019, he’s been Chief Architect at TAG Video Systems, a leading innovator in software-based media processing. He is a member of the SMTPE and IEEE, a SMPTE Fellow, is an active participant on many Standards committees, and longtime participant in SMPTE Board and Section activities. He is a deep expert in timing and synchronization and the SMPTE 2110 and 2059 technology suites. Through his career, he has delivered many technical presentations to conference audiences and has developed and taught technology courses at several local colleges and for SMPTE. Paul is an active Radio Amateur (VE3KU), avid maker of many things, an animal lover, curler in the winter and cyclist and gardener in the summer.
Speaking At
TTC 2021 Speaker Type
Presenter, Roundtable
Topic and Description
Opening Comments:
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Presentation Topic: An OTT Primer
Description: The media distribution industries have been rocked in recent years as the internet has become a viable and growing means of delivering TV and movie content through Over-The-Top (OTT) technologies. Based on web-centric, browser-friendly methods, it offers the ability to deliver live and various flavours of VOD content over a wide array of internet connection types and accommodates a vast range of screen sizes. Initially appearing as the viewing method for Subscription VOD based on content libraries, it has grown to include Advertising-driven VOD as well as Transactional VOD, and today embraces live broadcast-type streaming television as well as live event-based coverage. Beyond a single channel of transmission, it can offer multi-screen viewing, consumer-driven viewpoints and opens the door to future things such as volumetric camera synthesis. Its source is content in traditional formats, but everything downstream of that is completely different as compared to the flowing live-stream based methods of OTA, cable and satellite.
This presentation is a 101-level introduction to OTT. It focuses primarily on the technical aspects of how it works, beginning with well-known SMPTE standards and formats in their usual habitats and expands onwards into the world of OTT. Topic covered include an end-to-end view of the distribution architecture, how the mechanisms of OTT work, how content is packaged for OTT distribution, how the system offers dynamic response to viewing environment and connection speeds and how encryption, program guide and other ancillary services are handled. Specific topics addressed will include HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-DASH (MPEG-Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP), Microsoft Smooth Streaming (MSS), as well as the relevant SMPTE standards which underpin it.
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Roundtable Topic: Can a hardware company become a software company? and an OTT Prime
Description: There is an obvious and unstoppable movement from dedicated hardware solutions to software solutions in our industry. This round table will explore the ever-growing capability of software to provide solutions for media facilities. Also, the challenge facing hardware companies as they work to transform themselves to software companies will be discussed. Radio facilities executed this migration from hardware solutions to software solutions some time ago. What can Television facilities learn from that migration? How does this migration affect the vendor landscape? In addition, the traits of hardware companies vs software companies in the larger technology space will be presented and examined.
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Gold Showcase Topic: Clouds Eat Silos for Breakfast
Description: As media companies move to the cloud, the silos between live production, playout, transport and OTT are being removed. End-to-end workflows are being created. What does that look like and what is needed to make these really work?
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Presentation Topic: An OTT Primer
Description: The media distribution industries have been rocked in recent years as the internet has become a viable and growing means of delivering TV and movie content through Over-The-Top (OTT) technologies. Based on web-centric, browser-friendly methods, it offers the ability to deliver live and various flavours of VOD content over a wide array of internet connection types and accommodates a vast range of screen sizes. Initially appearing as the viewing method for Subscription VOD based on content libraries, it has grown to include Advertising-driven VOD as well as Transactional VOD, and today embraces live broadcast-type streaming television as well as live event-based coverage. Beyond a single channel of transmission, it can offer multi-screen viewing, consumer-driven viewpoints and opens the door to future things such as volumetric camera synthesis. Its source is content in traditional formats, but everything downstream of that is completely different as compared to the flowing live-stream based methods of OTA, cable and satellite.
This presentation is a 101-level introduction to OTT. It focuses primarily on the technical aspects of how it works, beginning with well-known SMPTE standards and formats in their usual habitats and expands onwards into the world of OTT. Topic covered include an end-to-end view of the distribution architecture, how the mechanisms of OTT work, how content is packaged for OTT distribution, how the system offers dynamic response to viewing environment and connection speeds and how encryption, program guide and other ancillary services are handled. Specific topics addressed will include HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-DASH (MPEG-Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP), Microsoft Smooth Streaming (MSS), as well as the relevant SMPTE standards which underpin it.
and
Roundtable Topic: Can a hardware company become a software company? and an OTT Prime
Description: There is an obvious and unstoppable movement from dedicated hardware solutions to software solutions in our industry. This round table will explore the ever-growing capability of software to provide solutions for media facilities. Also, the challenge facing hardware companies as they work to transform themselves to software companies will be discussed. Radio facilities executed this migration from hardware solutions to software solutions some time ago. What can Television facilities learn from that migration? How does this migration affect the vendor landscape? In addition, the traits of hardware companies vs software companies in the larger technology space will be presented and examined.
and
Gold Showcase Topic: Clouds Eat Silos for Breakfast
Description: As media companies move to the cloud, the silos between live production, playout, transport and OTT are being removed. End-to-end workflows are being created. What does that look like and what is needed to make these really work?
