by Thomas Wrede
Luxembourg, September 5, 2022--In many countries satellite video broadcasting is a major means of linear TV and radio delivery. But consumers today expect the convenience of watching linear and on-demand content on portable devices such as tablets, notebooks and mobile phones. Consequently, most video content providers now have dual-platform operations: a legacy (satellite) broadcast head-end, using MPEG Transport Stream delivery that serves integrated digital TVs or set-top boxes connected to consumers’ main room TV screens, and in addition an OTT streaming platform supporting live and on-demand content distribution, using unicast adaptive bit rate (ABR) streaming to mobile devices.