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Kicking off: IBC Content Everywhere Hub Panel Sessions
IBC2016 is approaching and the line-up for the IBC Content Everywhere Hub panel sessions is coming together. This year the Hub will look at...
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IBC2016 Conference: Advanced Technology Stream
Saturday 10 September will be dedicated to IP and Cloud at the IBC2016 conference ‘Transformation in the Digital Era’. In this video, executive producer...
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IBC2016 Best Conference Paper announced
The IBC2016 Best Conference Paper award goes to a paper entitled 'WIB: A New System Concept for Digital Terrestrial Television'. Authors of the paper...
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IBC2016 Conference: Platform Futures Stream
Platform Futures is about the aggregation and distribution of content by device manufacturers, pay TV operators, broadcasters, traditional physical media outlets, telcos and new...
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IBC2016 Conference: The Big Screen Experience
Julian Pinn, executive producer of the IBC Big Screen Experience, explains why this year's conference is an unmissable event for executive level motion-picture professionals
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Alex Mahon to discuss the journey from TV to VR
Alex Mahon, ex-CEO of Shine Group and now CEO of The Foundry, will talk attendees through her journey from traditional TV to the new...
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Dr Manuel Cubero to present agenda-setting Keynote
IBC has announced that Dr Manuel Cubero, CEO of Kabel Deutschland Holding AG and Chief Commercial Officer of Vodafone Germany, will deliver a Keynote...
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Sir Martin Sorrell to give Keynote address at IBC2016
Global advertising and marketing guru Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, will deliver the Keynote address on Friday 9 September at IBC2016. As one...
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‘Big Screen’ goes HDR
For the first time, the IBC2016 Big Screen Experience conference stream will feature High Dynamic Range projection provided by long-term supporters Dolby Laboratories
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Cloud is not the archive panacea
Cloud solutions are capacity-prohibitive, argue Shawn Brume (IBM), Terry Cochran (Quantum) and Laura Loredo (HP) Storage has long been a topic of discussion and debate in the...
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Only answer is to innovate
Broadcast vendors NewTek and Vitec say they are radically rethinking a market that has seen the price of kit fall and the number of...
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OBA offers extra personalisation
IBC’s annual ‘Loudness Breakfast’, chaired by the always-excellent Florian Camerer (ORF), heard a fascinating preview of how 21st Century Fox sees the future for...
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HDR is the new black
The ‘Outlook for Broadcast and Media – IBC2015 Wrap Up’ session underlined several big trends at IBC, the consensus being that HDR is winning...
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Breaking the codec log-jam
An in-depth examination of codec development, and what could replace HEVC on the current road map, occupied panellists at the 'Breaking the Codec’...
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We are all Screenagers
“Digital first is not enough –the whole media industry has to move to a mobile-first strategy,” urged Eric Scherer, France Télévisions in the session...
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BBC and Al Jazeera use VR to cover crises
News crews are experimenting with virtual reality (VR) applications to hammer home conditions in refugee camps and humanatarian crises, it was revealed in Monday’s...
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The changing role of cable TV
Now a long-established and popular feature of IBC, this afternoon the Benelux group of the Society of Cable Television Engineers (SCTE) holds its annual...
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FIMS: out of the box components for interoperable media workflows
By Jean-Pierre Evain (EBU), Loic Barbou (Triskel), Richard Cartwright (Quantel) and Abbe Wiesenthal (Turner) IBC2015 offers the perfect venue to update the broadcasting community...
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IP dominates Innovation Awards
The three winners of the IBC Innovation Awards each reflect the rapid changes in the media industry, with an app, an IP installation and...
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IP in pre-natal care stage
The EBU-produced session ‘The Media Factory of the Future’ proved that broadcasters are doing it for themselves when it comes to IP. Chair Simon...
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Innovations for acquisition
“We all want acquisition to be quicker, simpler and more efficient, and there are lots of products here at IBC that can do that,...
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IBC ‘must employ diversity levy’
BBC Worldwide’s operations director Lesley Johnson has called for IBC to impose a tax on the major IBC exhibitors to fund an educational programme...
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BT Sport will add UHD extras
BT Sport is ramping up its 4K sports coverage and will also start embracing the extra image benefits of HDR, Wider Colour Gamut and...
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BBC: “Ignore linear channels at your peril”
Delivering video across devices is an important part of the BBC’s future according to director of audiences Nick North (pictured) – but not at...
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BT Sport: Pushing to be first
Sunday’s IBC 10:00-11:00 Keynote is guaranteed to make headlines way beyond the Forum. Delia Bushell, BT TV and BT Sport’s MD is the star...
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ARM: 25 years young, and busier than ever
ARM is a marvellous success story, and its microprocessors – or IP — are present on an ever-wider portfolio of products, not least its...
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Blue sky thinking
IBC’s always-popular Industry Insights sessions includes Monday’s free ‘What Caught My Eye’, which is something of an early bird wrap-up for this year’s activity...
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EDCF Global Update
An annual fixture of IBC, the EDCF Global Update session brings you up to speed with the latest business, technology and quality developments in...
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MENA: Call for more DTT
Many Middle East nations are still transmitting analogue TV, while those few which have adopted DTT are transmitting channels and programming “which nobody is...
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Huge questions over HDR+
A jam-packed, standing room only gathering of IBC delegates heard the UHD Forum panel of experts discuss and review the likely road-map for the...
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IABM Awards mirror shift to IP
The prestigious IABM design and innovation awards, consisting of nine segment contests and a single special recognition prize, reflected the frontline themes of IBC...
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End of TV as we know it?
Content owners must embrace opportunities offered by OTT and online TV services but also ensure that investment in quality content and creativity is safeguarded:...
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OTT comes of age
OTT services will be in 35 million US households by 2022 representing a quarter of the market, predicted Roger Lynch, CEO of OTT start-up...
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New news: streetwise and streaming
“The new battleground for news is authenticity,” declared Kevin Sutciffe, Head of News Programming Europe at Vice. “We’re not shying away from the difficulties...
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Mobile game-changer for OTT
OTT is a means of survival, a huge business opportunity or a weapon to stall churn, depending on where you stand. Either way, not...
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Pixar: HDR Inside Out
IBC Big Screen Experience Keynote Monday, 09:30-11:00, Auditorium High Dynamic Range is a major focus of the IBC Big Screen Experience conference this year with...
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‘Programmatic’ ad-insertion goes ‘live’ for TV
The UK’s Channel 4 is just one of many European broadcasters who are making heavyweight changes to how TV commercials are sold. While many...
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“Great, big product will succeed,” says AMC boss
Reports of cable’s death have been greatly exaggerated, but the theoretical challenges that have been facing pay-TV operators for decades are starting to take...
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The logical place to be is free
It launched its OTT platform this summer and there may be an Apple app in the pipeline, but for global pay-TV giant Discovery launching...
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Analytics, skills sets and interop top IABM agenda
The IABM chose the theme ‘Where’s the Money in Broadcast and Media’ at its annual breakfast briefing, sizing the industry at 3,500 companies striving...
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Short form means business
With YouTube gaining 6 billion views a month and 8-second clip apps like Vine gaining traction it is clear that digital consumption is changing....
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Taking the IoT opportunity
The Internet of Things (IoT) is likely to be a major disruptor, a source of concern and an opportunity for broadcasters, said Paul Robinson...