David Davies
David Davies has been a freelance journalist and editor for two decades, specialising in broadcast, music, AV and green technologies. He is a regular contributor to IBC 365, Installation and FEED, and a long-time writer for several content agencies, focusing on issues including media technology and sustainability. He has also written longer-form content, including technical white papers, for leading broadcast and audio manufacturers.
- Industry Trends
Broadcast access services take a step forward with live British Sign Language (BSL) translation
Recent advances in captioning and autocue technologies, spearheaded by companies including Red Bee Media, are allowing profoundly deaf translators to work on live news and sports content, reports David Davies.
- Industry Trends
Hybrid cloud operational models: Focus on service quality grows as ‘cloud fears’ lessen
While some media organisations are moving completely to the cloud, it appears that a judicious hybrid of on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure will be the preferred route for many broadcasters for some time to come, writes David Davies.
- Industry Trends
Cloud distribution: “Standard and specific” broadcast workflows starting to emerge
While the migration to cloud-based production has tended to the dominate the headlines, the admittedly slower and more nuanced emergence of cloud distribution should not be undervalued, writes David Davies.
- Industry Trends
Supply Chain Challenges: “Everything is more complicated now”
Worsening geo-political instability and the long tail of the pandemic are among the factors ensuring that the supply chain crisis continues to be a ‘hot button’ issue for broadcast vendors and service providers, writes David Davies.
- Industry Trends
WBD’s Dave Duvall: Cloud migration, remote production and ‘creating the unexpected’
As CIO of Warner Bros. Discovery, Dave Duvall is steering the media giant through a dazzling array of technology shifts without recent precedent, writes David Davies.
- News
Creating next-gen cloud OTT capabilities for streaming
IBC Conference speaker Paul Pastor, who is CEO of Quickplay and Struum, says that streaming services are moving towards having “multiple models of addressing economic affordability.”
- News
ITV prepares to ‘Double, Double, Double’ with ITVX service
Deep Bagchee, Chief Product Officer at ITV, has detailed the broadcaster’s plans for innovative new streaming service ITVX during his IBC2022 Conference session
- Industry Trends
The Real Cannonball Run doc pushes creative boundaries with blockchain
A forthcoming documentary about the legendary US coast-to-coast automobile race promises to make innovative use of Web3, writes David Davies.
- Industry Trends
NFTs in media: technology on trajectory “from the experimental to the mainstream”
While sport has (so far) accounted for the lion’s share of media-related headlines, NFTs also have the potential to transform relationships between creators and audiences across the music, film and TV worlds, writes David Davies.
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