TV channels are not broadcast to all locations – not to your office, not to your hotel room abroad, not to the bus station you’re waiting in, and not to your uncle who recently left the country. But Internet is everywhere.
That’s exactly why commercial firms offer TV-to-Web services; so that local channels and on-demand video content can be viewed anywhere. In setting up such an operation, the following challenges must be addressed:
- Exhausting ingest of content
- On-demand transcoding and resizing of long-tail video content
- Bit-rate adaptation to overcome the behavior of the "breathing" Internet
- Monetizing the video using individually-tailored real-time video enrichment
- Affordable transmission costs
- Reasonable service CapEx and OpEx
