XtremeHD IPTV, Necro IPTV, 6IPTV, Krooz TV…these are just some of the more popular IPTV platforms available for use today. That list of names is sure to continue growing as consumers continue to recognize the benefits of transmitting TV programs and videos through the Internet, such as easy smart home integration, video call support, and online conferencing and gaming.
How are companies like VidOvation tackling the increasing popularity of enterprise IPTV installations and bridging the gap between broadcasting and proAV services?
On today’s episode of Signal Flow presented by Avixa, host Ben Thomas is joined by Jim Jachetta, EVP & CTO at VidOvation, to discuss what VidOvation does in the IPTV installation space to facilitate effective mass streaming services for enterprises.
Thomas and Jachetta also discussed…
What IPTV is and the challenges it will help enterprises overcome
The difference between unicast and multicast and how multicast improves streaming efficiency
Digital rights management (DRM) implications inside of IPTV systems
Jachetta described how VidOvation creates fluidity between broadcasting and proAV. “We will bridge the IPTV system to the master control router. Master control router is a big routing switcher in every television station. They’ve got hundreds of thousands of feeds coming in, they’ve got a multi-viewer in the front of the room. What show do we need to re-transmit or we need to air the feed from London to New York now? Or the feed from London is going to go live on the news now. Or the tennis channel—a lot of the tournaments in Europe happen, you know, three o’clock, two o’clock in the morning. So, they’ve got to bring them in, delay them, record them, re-broadcast them and marrying that work flow into the IPTV workflow is part of what we do…we can bridge our video on demand or our video playback infrastructure into the television infrastructure and vice versa.”
Jim Jachetta has been EVP & CTO of VidOvation since 2010. Jachetta began his career as a Project Engineer at Micra Corporation and then served as Senior VP of Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Principal at MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems prior to his current role at VidOvation. Jachetta earned a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from New York University. He also holds two patents for systems for communication of video signals and has eight conference, corporation, and association publications in the IPTV industry.
