The growth of OTT delivery is beyond doubt, but less clear are the comparative advantages of the solutions on offer. This jargon-busting and practical session will look at the most important devices beyond desktop and mobile, and compare the advantages of native app development with a more generic HTML5 approach. It will conclude by asking how far you should expect your online video platform to go in providing the solution you need.

Operators adding HEVC to their delivery pipeline will have plenty of codec options, but who has the time to evaluate their features, output quality, and performance? No worries – codec specialist Jan Ozer has done the work for you, evaluating leading contenders like x265 and MainConcept, and sharing his results. You’ll walk away from this session with a much clearer picture of the strengths and weaknesses of your HEVC encoding options.

This session will explore why a publisher’s video delivery ecosystem partners need a holistic view of consumers’ Quality of Experience (QoE) in today’s open and unpredictable internet environment. Learn how top-tier media companies and OTT video broadcasters and operators are using data to adapt to the changing entertainment landscape and how correlations can be made across the video delivery workflow to understand the impact of experience as it pertains to the engagement of your audience.

As HTML5 video gains widespread adoption, we have seen significant advances in a short period of time. EME and WebRTC get a lot of attention, but they’re not the only tools with the potential to change the way we stream video. This presentation looks at some of the new browser APIs that could usher in the next generation of HTML5 video, from the browser Fetch API to Service Workers to network-side improvements such as HTTP 2.0 and QUIC. We discuss what these new APIs can do, as well as their advantages and potential drawbacks, and examine the state of the art and adoption obstacles to give you a glimpse of what the future holds.

General purpose CDNs are often ill-equipped to deliver high-quality OTT services like live-to-VOD, cloud DVR, and catch-up TV to multiple devices. This presentation will show how broadcasters, content owners, and OTT operators can benefit from the flexibility of using their own ‘TV CDN’ to deliver amazing live and VOD OTT to consumers without buffering or delays, and how such a CDN can give publishers unique insights into consumer behaviour.

Until content publishers pay more attention to network quality of service (QoS) and viewer quality of experience (QoE), OTT will never truly compete with broadcast. What are the smartest approaches to QoS and QoE? What’s getting in the way of achieving broadcast quality in OTT? Share your thoughts and experiences and ask questions of your peers in this no-holds-barred roundtable session.

How people watch television is changing. They’re no longer tied to their couches or an arbitrary programming guide. They are watching video from wherever they want, whenever they want, and on whatever device they want via OTT. In this session, we’ll explore the generational shift between traditional broadcast and streaming video, predict what television might be like in 5 years, and address what needs to happen for technology providers and content publishers to take advantage of this sea change in video distribution.

OTT does many things that broadcast can't, but it still lags behind in one crucial area: latency There's nothing worse for a viewer than to find out about a crucial goal or key play on Twitter before they see it on their screen. How can OTT solve the latency problem? Join this unique roundtable to share your thoughts, learn from your peers and better understand the latency challenge.