Why is it hard to spot the initial ripples of revolutionary change – change that can disrupt markets and create entirely new business sectors? Why do some innovation ripples peter out, while others go on to become waves? Which technologies and innovations are likely to revolutionise the future of television, and what do we need to do to prepare for this? Our international keynote speaker – a tech visionary and accomplished expert on the Web-based media standards that are transforming the broadcast industry – answers these fundamental questions as he considers the significance of innovation shifts we’ve witnessed in recent decades, and those we’re about to see.

8th FOKUS Media Web Symposium Impressions (May 21-22, 2019) - Fraunhofer FOKUS organized the 8th FOKUS Media Web Symposium under the slogan “Deep Media – Personalized Media Services, Content and Information”. More than 200 international participants met to learn more about the latest developments in media technologies. The conference was accompanied by tutorials and workshops and various face-to-face meetings. The FOKUS Media Web Symposium has been taking place since 2010 and has developed into an expert meeting for all topics related to video technologies. With this year's number of participants, 56 speakers, three tutorials and workshops as well as 16 event partners, the event was particularly successful. During the two symposium days, new technologies, trends and economic aspects of media technologies were discussed. The event focused on the latest developments in areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science for next-generation Media, Advanced Streaming Technologies, 5G, VR / AR / 360° Video, Dynamic Ad Insertion, Addressable TV, SmartTV and HbbTV. Another major topic was the standardization and market development of new media technologies. The conference was accompanied by an exhibition in which the participants could inform themselves about the latest developments and solutions from Fraunhofer FOKUS as well as from event partners on the subject of "Deep Media". Special thanks goes to the supporters of the event: Bitmovin, Amazon Web Services, Google Ad Manager, Nowtilus, BitTubes, Nanocosmos, Norigin Media, Anixe HD, Berlin Partner, DASH-IF, WAVE, HbbTV, VR Industry Forum, W3C, Vaunet and Bitkom. Around the 8th FOKUS Media Web Symposium, Fraunhofer FOKUS also hosted face-to-face meetings for working groups of DASH-IF, dash.js, VR-IF and W3C. In addition, the "Berlin Video Tech Meetup" was hosted after the conference on May 22nd. Would you like to find out more about upcoming events, such as the 9th FOKUS Media Web Symposium 2020 or our FAME business unit? Subscribe here to our newsletter: https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/mws

Speaker: John Simmons Date: September 22, 2015 Title: SFO15-200K3 : The Web and Digital Rights Management – the technical solution to the Web-DRM paradox and its disruptive implications ★ Session Description ★ ABSTRACT: The Internet poses a fascinating technical challenge for commercial media distribution. As noted in a 2003 United Nations WIPO report, the principle purpose of DRM is to create an element of scarcity on behalf of a rights holder; but doing so raises a fundamental paradox - the business of the publisher lies in providing access rather than preventing it. The report went on to state: “Nevertheless, unless copyright is to be abandoned as a mechanism for trading in intellectual property entirely, it will be essential to find an answer to this paradox.” The introduction in 2011 of a global standard for DRM-interoperable encoding and the 2012 Microsoft-Netflix-Google proposal for HTML5 Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) provided a partial answer to this paradox. What remained was to extend this capability to open source applications, thus providing a complete answer to the Web-DRM paradox while enabling open, interoperable media applications with access to enhanced content protection. This talk will cover the technical underpinnings of this highly disruptive, strategic inflection point, the interplay between open source and enhanced content protection and the implications for both commercial video and the Internet. John’s bio: John Simmons is the visionary who inspired Microsoft to play a leadership role in the creation of international media standards. In a 2008 internal memo John envisioned a RESTful, interoperable commercial media stack, predicting its impact on the Web. His efforts resulted in Microsoft publishing specs for DRM-interoperable encoding and adaptive streaming, which in turn culminated in the ISO MPEG standards for Common Encryption and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH). He led the creation of an OAuth 2.0 TV Everywhere authorization standard, initiated the Google-Microsoft-Netflix contributions to W3C for HTML5 Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and Media Source Extensions (MSE) and authored an open spec to enable embedded browsers to implement EME without the use of proprietary software. At present John is the Media Platform Architect for Microsoft’s Operating System Group. ★ Resources ★ Google Event to Watch Live: https://plus.google.com/u/1/events/cpd8iven7d60tidsvd7ntcnjl4k Pathable: https://sfo15.pathable.com/meetings/302830 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14YnkW6ZsI0 Presentation: Etherpad: pad.linaro.org/p/sfo15-200k3 ★ Event Details ★ Linaro Connect San Francisco 2015 - #SFO15 September 21-25, 2015 Hyatt Regency Hotel http://www.linaro.org http://connect.linaro.org

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Microsoft?s John Simmons: Standardization Of Web Video Will Lead To An Explosion Of Content from Beet.TV. Like this? Watch the latest episode of Beet.TV on Blip! http://blip.tv/beettv/watch AMSTERDAM ? Microsoft sees the new video streaming standard MPEG-Dash, and the standardization of web video as a whole, as a stepping-stone into the next era of commercial web video discovery. At the IBC show, Media Platform Architect John Simmons told us that he believes "that by creating a standard for commercial web video receivers, we?ll go from the walled garden era? of online video ?to a model where the long-tail and mid-tier vertical niche markets for web video will explode." Simmons talks about need for a "standard receiver for the reception of live and on-demand commercial video on the web," as well as the different technologies that Microsoft has been working on going back to 2009, and likens web video standardization to the standardization of web pages in the 90?s. In the same way that Mosaic enabled web content to explode from 26 web pages in 1992 to over a million by 1997, he believes that the standardization of web video delivery will allow content to thrive and web video discovery to become increasingly important. Megan O?Neill See all episodes of Beet.TV http://blip.tv/beettv#EpisodeArchive Visit Beet.TV's series page http://blip.tv/beettv