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This year’s IBC press conference featured four eloquent and notable speakers: Micheal Crimp (IBC CEO), Roger Thornton (IBC Convention Chairman), Jessica Lapsiwaia (Head of Content for IBC) and Kim Jackson (Co-Founder and President of Entertainment at Singular DTV). However, Jackson stole the spotlight with her talk on the emerging uses for blockchain and its potential applications within the broadcast and media industry.
The maturation and convergence of cloud technologies across the whole content value chain will be the primary theme for Amazon Web Services (AWS) at IBC 2018.
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) has adopted the OpenFog Consortium’s reference architecture for fog computing. This may prove significant to broadcasters in the OTT era.
ATSC 3.0 is slowly rolling out in the form of actual on-air tests at multiple sites. This type of launch provides engineers the perfect opportunity to use the time to better understand this complex technology before equipment purchase decisions must be made. This primer peels back the multiple layers of ATSC 3.0 and explains what each does and how they all work together to create a high-quality, multiple-format and new business model signal.
Few would argue that more bandwidth for portable and mobile consumer devices isn’t a good idea. TV Broadcasting is the industry hardest hit to free up spectrum for the wireless broadband greater good of everyone else. But with FCC protections, broadcasters aren’t arguing about it.
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