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VR 2016: Sport in the Driving Seat

Mon, Oct 24, 2016 | by Nardit Mosacho

In the companion article to this piece, we’ve charted how VR is breaking through to the mass market this year, with sales of head-mounted displays in particular forecast to suppress even the more optimistic projections from earlier this year. With the potentially game-changing PlayStation VR due out in October, just in time to hit the holiday season gift-buying sweet spot, there is even the potential for further acceleration too.

Fri, Oct 21, 2016 | by Nardit Mosacho

2016 has long been billed as the year that VR hits the mainstream, by us as well as others, and so far it seems that matters are unfolding much as predicted. In fact, sales in some sectors are ahead o...

Tue, Oct 18, 2016 | by Andy Stout

One of the latest reports looking at the potential for the VR market predicts it could be worth as much as $50bn by 2021. Growth in sports rights meanwhile is set to be more modest as rights holders s...

Wed, Jul 13, 2016 | by Andy Stout

One of the most significant developments in the future history of Virtual Reality, at least as far as the broadcast aspects of it go, has been the confirmation from Olympic Broadcast Services (OBS) th...

Wed, Apr 6, 2016 | by Merav Cunningham

Live event television, and sports, in particular, remains crucial to the broadcast industry. A recent analysis of the US market showed that 93% of the top 100 live TV programs in 2015 were sports, whi...

Sun, Dec 27, 2015 | by Henk Van Meerkerk

It’s really hard to make a prediction of the future in our very fast changing world. But looking at the TV Industry, maybe influenced by my always present sports goggles, I dare to make the following ...

Fri, Oct 30, 2015 | by Efrat Fenigson

One of the main problems that broadcasters and service operators face in the current climate is that shifts in piracy over the past handful of years have seen it move from a post-event process to a li...

Fri, Oct 9, 2015 | by Merav Cunningham

With the value of premium sports rights spiralling upwards every year, it has never been more urgent for operators to secure their content against the ever-present — and ever-evolving — threat of pira...

Tue, Sep 22, 2015 | by Merav Cunningham

Over the course of IBC2015 we ran two panels on our stand investigating some of the most pressing issues the industry faces. The second panel, ‘Protect and Serve: Securing content and satisfying custo...