IBC Focus

‘Content is King’ continues to be the most basic tenet on which a video professional hangs their hat. When broadcast was the only medium...

Has IBC come at a good time for the electronic media industry? Why? We think it has, yes. We’ve all noted the major progressive...

Probably the big story of the year in the broadcast and media industry has not been about technology, but the sudden rush of mergers...

If you are one of the lucky 10,000 IBC Content Everywhere Touch & Connect Club Members, and have one of our Touch & Connect...

Tonight you have the chance to see one of the greatest movies of recent years: Ang Lee’s remarkable Life of Pi. Better, you can...

With the steady growth rate in satellite industry revenues, the main drivers for ETL Systems are the increase in high throughput satellites (HTS), the...

To face the challenges of the multi-platform, multi-format, multi-content future, this industry needs to attract the best creative, technical and commercial talent. IBC plays...

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has taken delivery of a total of 700 Kyrion encoders from broadcast video compression solutions company ATEME. The EBU’s...

Has IBC come at a good time for the electronic media industry? Why? NAB was all about mergers, acquisitions and restructuring. Five months later,...

Spark New Zealand, formerly Telecom NZ, is making use of the Xstream MediaMaker video management platform for the delivery of its new OTT video...

Clear-Com has introduced the LINQ product line. LINQ interfaces are compact devices that enable connection of two-wire partyline with call signalling and four wire...

The new Live+ Broadcast Server from Dejero comes in a compact, rack-mounted 1U package, and includes dual redundant power supplies and RAID hard drives...

It was the first time at IBC for Scottish lighting startup Blind Spot Gear. Blind Spot’s Billy Campbell said, “IBC is by far the...

Cineplex Entertainment, one of Canada’s leading entertainment companies, has deployed the Content Direct solution by Hall 14 exhibitor CSG International to enhance the user...

Lawo’s mc²36 all-in-one audio console has made its premiere at IBC2014, unveiled at a high-energy launch that included a live audio over IP mix...

In exclusive research for IBC, global consultancy Deloitte asked executives from the broadcast and communications industries who were the top innovators. The answers were...

Display and digital home solutions semiconductor provider MStar has licensed the Cryptography Research CryptoFirewall security core for integration into its connected TV solution chips....

Connected TV software components provider iWedia today announced that it has integrated its Teatro-3.5 software solution for Android TV STB with Accedo Application Sphere,...

The new PrimeCircle XM (manual focus and manual aperture) cinema lenses from LockCircle have started shipping, and offer smooth focus action with calibrated (one...

Digital surround sound company DTS has acquired Manzanita Systems, the developer of MPEG software applications for digital television, video on demand (VoD) and over-the-top...

The road to 4K is fraught with challenges. Issues around video transmission are acting as speed bumps, threatening to hurt revenues, and the industry...

The emergence of higher quality standards such as 4K means live production systems are required to do more than ever before. Production, TV and...

Richard Scott has left Imagine Communications to join Irdeto and lead the company’s global sales and marketing team, along with responsibility for strategic planning...

Has IBC come at a good time for the electronic media industry? Why? IBC is the world’s largest professional show focused exclusively on media...

Times continue to change for traditional broadcasters, including the customer base long served by Wohler, and chief among these changes is the fact that...

There are countless components that go into any production. Media and entertainment professionals have to plan ahead to have the right technology, equipment and...

Has IBC come at a good time for the electronic media industry? Why? Despite all the electronic communication around us, we still lose the...

Fischer Connectors extended its Fischer FiberOptic Series with a new and revolutionary hybrid connector: a solution with two fibre channels and two electrical contacts...

Up to now, broadcasters and content owners were only dealing with multiscreen as a secondary VoD or catch up service. For many, this ‘second...

OTT STBs and hybrid DVB STBs are on show at the SDMC stand. The company’s DV6805 OTT STB allows users to browse the internet,...

The state of the industry can be described best as one of ever-lasting change, especially since the transition from tape to file based workflows,...

TV 2, a publicly owned television station based in Odense, Denmark, is upgrading its workflow with new gear from Rohde & Schwarz DVS. The...

IP video traffic-smoothing technology DOZER, on show at IBC2014, has won the Society of Broadcast Engineers technology award for 2014. DVEO’s DOZERbox II IP...

Systems integrator and mobile broadcast production specialist Megahertz has won a contract to manage the relocation of South African free-to-air broadcaster e.tv. The station...

IBC Content Everywhere MENA, the new event for the Middle East and North Africa, is now open for registrations. Designed to deliver a new...

Not long ago, technology in the video industry was an area unto itself. Then, huge and rapid consumer use of general purpose computing invaded...

Live event coverage is becoming an increasingly popular way to deliver fresh and interesting content to viewers. It can be a cost efficient way...

Has IBC come at a good time for the electronic media industry? Why? IBC this year comes during a very exciting time for the...

Has IBC come at a good time for the electronic media industry? Why? Definitely! IBC has always been the place to be for discussing...

Over the 12 years that I‘ve been attending IBC there have been substantial changes and innovations in broadcasting technology, which have impacted how television...