“The video industry is taking the ‘green initiative’ seriously,” said Thierry Fautier, vice president of strategy for Harmonic.
Real Companies, Tangible Actions Across the M&E industry, specific companies and organizations are taking tangible steps to make themselves and the industry as a whole more sustainable.
“The largest source of power consumption for video services is the device, followed by the network and then the data center,” Fautier said.
The company is also asking OTT content providers to consider using power-efficient multicasting in place of unicasting, bearing in mind that doing so would reduce delivery flexibility for consumers.
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“In addition to moving to HD+ HVO, NEP is eliminating single-use plastics in all of our OB productions,” said Marie Ellis, NEP Groups’ head of marketing for the U.K.
“While carbon offsets are one option for mitigating impact, reducing emissions in the first place should be our focus,” he added.
To motivate media companies to become more sustainable sooner, “regulators have to step up—similar to what’s been done before in the broadband industry—by incentivizing operators to deploy green networks,” said Fautier.
First, the media companies are taking real action to address climate change by moving to more sustainable products and practices.
He has covered HDTV from the days of the six competing HDTV formats that led to the 1993 Grand Alliance, and onwards through ATSC 3.0 and OTT.