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Fun Run raises $35,000
This year’s 4K 4Charity Fun Run raised more than $35,000 in donations for global and local charitable organisations. The event drew approximately 450 registrants,...
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HbbTV 2.0 and its importance for broadcasters
Peter McAvock, EBU We all know what ‘OTT’ is. Well, ‘over the top’ of what exactly? It’s over the top of linear broadcasting. Let’s...
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SAT>IP live broadcast over in-home IP networks
Thomas Wrede, VP Reception Systems, SES Astra TV is still the predominant device to consume broadcast content in the home, however new devices such...
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HDR – You take the High road!
David Wood, DVB chair, Commercial Module, UHDTV To confuse a Scottish folk song; “You take the ‘High’ road, and you’ll be a commercial success...
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DiCaprio lights up IBC in brilliant Dolby Vision HDR
This year’s Monday night movie is The Revenant, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. IBC offers screenings of recent movies that...
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EBU loudness changes
In 2016, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) updated all of its loudness specifications, except for the core, EBU R128 itself. The updates take into...
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The shadow of the dark web hangs over cyber security
One of the subplots of IBC has been the increasing interest in cyber security and an initiative was discussed yesterday by the Association of...
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Huggers: Re-bundling will be the next big disrupter
As millennial cord cutters go a la carte, ditching their cable subs in favour of hand-picked OTT services, Erik Huggers, the former Microsoft and...
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IP: “It isn’t the Emperor’s new clothes!”
Niall Duffy, head of IT and workflow solutions at Sony Professional, brought together a heavyweight panel of industry experts to advise IBC delegates on...
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The DVB links with Sat>IP to reach mobiles at home
The DVB demonstrations focus on the delivery of content to mobile devices, with an outdoor solution and one for reaching beyond walls and windows...
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The truth about millennials
“Game of Thrones is the most popular show of all times”, “mobile is the new screen”, “millennials no longer watch TV”: these are only...
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Brilliant concepts fire up the IABM Awards
The IABM Design and Innovation Awards brought joy to the teams behind ten outstanding products. Opening the celebrations, IABM CEO Peter White said: “We...
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IBC2016 Exhibition Awards
Best use of shell scheme 6For the judges, one booth stood out head and shoulders above the rest. Pliant Technologies, stand 11.A02, takes the...
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European content owners are vital to the BDA
The Blu-Ray Disc Association, a decade old and consisting of about 80 members, is just starting to ramp up the launch of titles on...
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TV brands and their future plans
“We believe many mobile operators are on the cusp of becoming fully-fledged TV platforms. In response, we are investing heavily in must-have long- and...
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Discovery: Adding to the Olympic mix
Gerry O’Sullivan, who again moderated IBC’s now regular CTO session of industry experts, said that back in 2014 the key debating points concerned 4K...
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SMPTE 2110 points VRT to the promised land of IP
Used for four interview elements per day by the IBC TV News, the VRT Live IP studio has been a focal point for the...
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IBC brings together the IP history makers
Never, in 49 IBC shows, have we seen the like. The move from analogue to digital was immense, but the eradication of the serial...
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Sir Martin Sorrell: “Privatise C4; Trump could win”
Sir Martin Sorrell, delivering IBC’s ‘Global View’ Keynote in his position as CEO of creative giant WPP, gave a barnstorming speech and explained WPP’s...
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“Broadcasters must scale up”
Forming vertical partnerships with social media platforms and joining forces with other broadcasters to create scale will be strategies that broadcasters adopt to compete...
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Party Perfection!
The legends from Limelight, UK, are having a great time at the IBC party. “We’re getting drunk tonight and are going to dance naked!”...
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EBU’s quest for quality
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has been using the strapline, “Your Reference in Media Technology”, for a number of years now. It refers to...
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Gaining Insights
Yesterday saw the first IBC Insight Forum. At a lunchtime get-together, around 120 senior technical visitors, many of them first time attendees at IBC,...
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The Battle for Eyeballs: Reaching connected viewers
Winning – and holding onto – viewers is undoubtedly the Holy Grail for broadcasters and programme makers. But disruption is everywhere. This IBC session,...
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Watch The Jungle Book in HDR
Each year the IBC technical team takes the RAI Auditorium and converts it into The IBC Big Screen Experience. With the help of industry...
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NBCU’s reality service to launch on Apple
NBC Universal is to launch its reality-themed streaming service hayu on Apple TV as well offering its subscribers the chance to download content to...
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Launching into the IBC Community
Our industry is changing fast. New businesses start up with bright ideas, and companies which previously did not think of themselves as broadcast manufacturers...
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Brainstorm at IBC Hackfest today
The world’s media is in a state of constant flux and the rules are being rewritten. Defending the status quo is no longer an...
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The IBC Future Zone
Each year IBC seeks out ideas which will become the star products not this year but in years to come. The IBC Future Zone...
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Content Everywhere Hub
Today there is a packed programme in the IBC Content Everywhere Hub, the free theatre sponsored by Leaseweb, in Hall 14. Presentations start at...
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IBC Rising Stars
This year’s IBC Rising Stars programme starts today. This is an IBC initiative to create opportunities for young people looking to establish themselves in...
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BT Sport: “The 4K viewer comes first”
Andy Beale, chief engineer at BT Sport who is responsible for the telco’s UHD transmissions, said that a year ago he anticipated that 4K...
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Eutelsat takes stake in V-Nova
Eutelsat and V-Nova used IBC to announce a commercial partnership. Eutelsat is taking a “minority” stake in V-Nova and its cornerstone product, the Perseus...
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What next for Netflix?
“We want more partnerships and more innovation in our partnerships,” said Christopher Whiteley, VP business development EMEA for Netflix in the Netherlands. Speaking at...
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“The 50-year party is over”
Dominique Delport, global MD at Havas Media and chairman of Vivendi’s content division, told IBC delegates at the show’s opening session that the mass-marketing...
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Setting the standard for the next 20 years
The progress towards the day SDI finally dies and IP dominates was put into perspective yesterday by EBU director of technology Simon Fell, when...
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Leaders plan for digital reinvention
“The industry will never change this slowly again.” That was the slightly chilling message delivered to the delegates of IBC’s Leaders’ Summit. Staged on...
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Sir Martin Sorrell: Cuba, China and creativity
Sir Martin Sorrell is rarely out of the headlines and as IBC’s star Keynote for 2016 he is likely to make a few more...
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IBC Content Everywhere starts today
The IBC Content Everywhere Hub, sponsored by Leaseweb, is a dedicated stage in Hall 14. Starting today, it is the venue for a programme...
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Celebrating the century
26 July 1916 saw the first meeting of a new organisation, the Society of Motion Picture Engineers. In 1950, television became an official part...
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Experience cutting-edge cinema
IBC has long recognised that nothing offers the ‘wow factor’ like the movies. Each year, IBC’s technical team turns the RAI Auditorium into an...
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Check out the App
The IBC2016 Mobile App is free to download on iOS and Android. This year’s app is a completely new concept and packs some powerful...