IBC Focus

The IBC Innovation Awards are highly regarded because they are more than simple technology prizes. They reward collaborations: broadcasters or production companies working together...

iSAT Africa has selected Eutelsat Communications to partner on free-to-air delivery of African and international digital channels in Kenya and across East Africa in...

In a move that the company describes as a new approach to loudness adjustment, the aNorm algorithm has been launched at IBC. TC Electronic...

2014 is proving to be a big year for Comigo with a doubling of its customer base and five times more set-top boxes having...

A new video production switcher capable of transforming a traditional AUX bus into a functional M/E with cut, mix, wipe and key control has...

Gearhouse has launched its new lightweight, expandable OBPod portable production solution. Building on the concept of the flyaway pod that Gearhouse Broadcast has supplied to Sky...

François Moreau de Saint-Martin, CEO of Viaccess-Orca (front left), and Tom Mohler, CEO of Olympusat (front right), signed a deal at IBC that will...

The Benelux Group of the SCTE (the Society for Broadband Professionals) will hold its next Benelux lecture during IBC at 14.00 today in Room...

After scouring the busy halls, a panel of judges has selected the winners for this year’s IBC2014 Exhibition Design Awards. The accolades were handed...

Niclas Ericson, director of FIFA TV, had two clear shots at goal last night, taking home not one but two trophies. For the innovations...

The deployment of wireless camera systems was once a questionable option for high profile, ‘catch-it-or-miss-it-forever’, live events. Not any more. When COFDM was introduced...

By Richard Asquith (Global CEO, Kantar Media Audiences) Watching fellow train passengers tuned into their own personal TV sets, whether on a smartphone or...

The Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry advancements anticipated over the next 10 years will be nothing less than astonishing. As media organisations look to...

The rapid growth of video on demand platforms, coupled with broadband adoption, increased network speeds and the boom in sales of connected devices such...

Over-the-air broadcast remains the world’s dominant and most efficient means of delivering live radio and television. While countries worldwide are in various phases of...

Not long after IBC2012, a collaborative industry project — the Future of Innovation in Television Technology (FITT) taskforce — was launched, and the findings...

General Dynamics Mediaware has been working with compressed video since 1997 and early on, we recognised that with the advent of digital broadcasting and...

Has IBC come at a good time for the electronic media industry? Why? We’ve been attending IBC on a regular basis for more than...

Radio broadcasters face unique challenges in today’s rapidly evolving media landscape, complicated by the emergence of new distribution platforms. Success is tied to the...

Whilst many fears for the safety of Lithium Ion batteries are groundless, IDX acknowledge that it is a technology that requires experience and quality...

More of us have greater access to professional tools than ever before. This is in itself not a new trend, but what has changed...

Media content today is ubiquitous. When consumers want it, they know where to find it, how to acquire it, and watch it whenever or...

At our Eisenberg headquarters in Germany we design and manufacture high-quality digital intercom and announcement systems for use in radio and TV broadcasting and...

In this day and age we are surrounded by digital media content from the moment we wake up. However, the way in which we...

Digital has redefined the possibilities in advancing the movie-going experience and continuing the long tradition of cinema in providing a spectacle that is simply...

Conax continues to grow in Asia, EMEA and the Americas in securing content distribution and pay TV operations that are based on a wide...

The delivery of TV is changing, and with it new networks and platforms have been developed to address this change. Despite the great attention...

Ultra-HDTV, or more formally UHD-1 in its 4K guise is again the hottest of hot topics at IBC2014. This session wraps a full day...

The new-look IBC TV has been running since Thursday, and has already built a big archive of content that can be seen online as...

What I am about to tell you is not new. You know the story. You see it every day when you watch the news,...

Ken Blakeslee, who has produced today’s panel with Terry Marsh, reminds delegates that the rules – such as they are – as far as...

Ever since MPEG-2 was introduced in the mid-1990s and transformed the industry, enabling an explosion of channels and VoD content, the industry has been...

The over-the-top (OTT) trend lines are there and perhaps have been for the better part of the past year. This is no longer a...

Has IBC come at a good time for the electronic media industry? Why? Yes – we have seen a gradual growth and confidence come...

Has IBC come at a good time? IBC2014 has come at the perfect time for those in pro video, perhaps marked down in history...

From Hollywood blockbusters to local news broadcasts, the process of creating media content is complex, disparate, and nonlinear. Multiple versions of a single piece...

Since its release JPEG 2000 has been acknowledged as a superior compression format to MPEG and AVC for lightly compressed applications. Its ultra-low latency,...

The world’s filmmakers are moving rapidly towards all-digital production, and today’s younger filmmakers have frequently cut their creative teeth on iPhones, inexpensive digital camera...

Looking back, virtually the whole of our year has been spent in the virtual world of hardware emulation and this IBC our stand is...

As a full service provider, Telekom Austria Group entered the business field of satellite TV last year. This new business field opens up a...

This year marks Akena’s first IBC exhibition as a new entity. The TDF Group created Arkena as a result of the merger of the...