Kilar on Streaming�s Future, YouTube on NFT�s, State of Codecs 2022



	News Roundup The Future of Streaming According to Jason Kilar
What you don’t know is who acquires who, and then who’s the acquirer and who’s the acquiree. But I do think you’re going to see changes. I think some of those companies could become production entities, like Sony Pictures Entertainment is.

	Tubefilter YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Discussed Dislikes, Shorts, Content ID, and NFTs on Ludwig’s Podcast
So if someone tries to sell another creator’s video as an NFT, YouTube has the tools to intervene. “We are in the best position to verify which assets belong to which creators,” So if someone tries to sell another creator’s video as an NFT, YouTube has the tools to intervene. “We are in the best position to verify which assets belong to which creators,”

	Videonet Major Channel Owners Made “strategically Very Wrong Move” By Jumping Into SVOD Arena, Says Analyst
The decline of the SVOD model – and increasing attractiveness of the ad-supported services – is reflected also in the fact that “global addressable markets for streamers are smaller than you think”.

	Techcrunch Study of Apple’s ATT Impact Highlights Competition Concerns
The paper may add fuel to arguments that try to pitch competition law against privacy rights as the paper’s authors suggests their findings back the view that Apple and other large companies have been able to increase their market power as a result of implementing measures like ATT which give users more agency over their privacy.

	TV Technology Upconversion Today: what Does Resolution Really Mean?
I was asked recently why HDTV content (1080i, 720p) looks so good on 4KTV’s. Shouldn’t HDTV appear as soft on 4KTV’s as SDTV looks soft on HDTV’s? That is a good question and to start we have to go back in history (not too far) to begin to unravel this conundrum.

	Cord Cutters News Hub Research: 76% of TV Households Now Own a Smart TV
But while most people are using Smart TVs correctly, there’s still 1 in 7 (14%) of homes that own Smart TV but aren’t using them to stream TV or movies.

	Streaming Media Magazine The State of Video Codecs 2022
In this 2022 codec update, I'll identify the most significant announcements from the last year relating to H.264, VP9, HEVC, AV1, Versatile Video Coding (VVC), Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC), and Essential Video Coding (EVC).