Features

The convergence of AV with traditional broadcast explains why more visitors and exhibitors at ISE 2024 are spanning both worlds, reports Adrian Pennington.

The IBC Accelerators is celebrating its sixth year of bringing together broadcast and media tech innovators to collaborate and explore solutions to real-world challenges. As twelve shortlisted teams get ready to pitch their projects at the Accelerator Kickstart Day on 6 March, with a view to presenting demo PoC’s to an international audience at IBC2024, IBC365 asked last year’s Participants about the doors that the programme has opened and their biggest lessons learned.

Steve McQueen’s new documentary juxtaposes the past with the present and breaks the traditional narrative style to bring the facts of the holocaust into the light, writes Adrian Pennington.

January has only just come to an end, but we are already looking ahead to the next IBC, which takes place as usual at the Amsterdam RAI in September. In the meantime, Content Everywhere companies are polishing their crystal balls and making predictions about what might lie ahead for the video services and streaming industry in the next twelve months.

If you think ISE is about the convergence of AV with broadcast think again. Show organisers say this has already happened. Even the IABM has a speaking slot, writes Adrian Pennington

The fourth instalment of HBO’s crime drama True Detective is set in a remote outpost of Alaska but the show was filmed almost entirely in Iceland, where cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister BSC used an innovative Infrared technique to capture the perma-dark snowbound landscape, reports Adrian Pennington.

The established bellwether of the tech industry, CES2024 has delivered in its usual frenetic style. Mark Mayne rounds up some of the good, the bad, and the downright left-field…

Digital terrestrial television (DTT) received a vote of confidence in its continued resistance against the growing dominance of streaming at the end of last year when its primary place in the UHF spectrum was secured for the foreseeable future.

A story about re-activating a dead woman with her unborn baby’s brain was always going to make for a strange film but if weird is what you want, Poor Things will not disappoint, writes Adrian Pennington.

With September’s bustling and future focussed IBC2023 in the bag, the international broadcast and technology bodies that own IBC fill us in on their 2023 accomplishments, insights and hopes for the industry in the coming year.