George Jarrett
George Jarrett has written about film and TV industry subjects for four and a half decades. He started on the non-theatrical title Film User and went on to edit several industry titles, two of which he was founder of. He was also founding editor of the IBC Daily and the legendary weekly Soho Runner. He has been to NAB 35 times and to 46 IBC Shows. He has written for TVBEurope for many years and has written regularly for another six outlets. For IBC he produced and chaired nearly 50 workshops and master classes.
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The Rise Up Academy: Helping media technology resolve its skills crisis
As the industry canters towards a rush of new technologies it does so having to resolve a massive shortage of skilled people, plus an embarrassing diversity deficit. The Rise Up Academy is on the front line of these two battles, and it has opened career windows for many primary and ...
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SMPTE: The power of smart contracts awaits the media industry
Offering twinned creative technology and technical infrastructure strands, running simultaneously in the NFT2 and NFT3 theatres, the SMPTE UK Media Technology Conference 2022 marked 29 June as the day it created a new, modern media image for itself in the UK. George Jarrett reports.
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DTG Summit 2022: Addressable TV and the Metaverse dominate broadcaster thinking
The post-pandemic return of the annual DTG Summit saw a number of futuristic comments wrapped in the warning that many coming technologies will fall between ‘The Cool and The Creepy’. Titled ‘Television Beyond Imagination’, the DTG Summit 2022 was purposely not streamed, so the speakers could be unrestrained in their ...
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The great race is on to decarbonised digital
The call to action for the DPP’s Committed to Sustainability Programme came out of a 2018 industry leader’s conference as a top business priority. Identified as a ‘fairly simple assessment tool’, it was launched officially in 2019 and recently celebrated the milestone of 50 media companies joining the programme. George ...
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Multicast with a dial a delay option: 5G VISTA will ignite fan interest
The next big steps for the DCMS-sponsored 5G VISTA Project will be the imminent arrival of test handsets and the 31 March release of a report containing all the collateral from two years of technical and business case endeavours. VISTA stands for Video in Stadia Technical Architecture, but distributed events ...
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Sustainability: how Albert is expanding its reach
Over a decade on from when it founded the albert sustainability project (now run by Bafta) the BBC announced recently that all of its commissions and re-commissions are required to complete albert certification, just as the albert team diversifies beyond its first major extension into broadcast sports, with a move ...
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Pointing to the massive scope of sustainability
Sustainability and transparency must go hand-in-hand: a DPP web event looking to demystify sustainability had its messages amplified and contextualised by sage inputs from a trio of carbon footprint professionals from Atos, Red Bee Media and Sky Sports.
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SMPTE report explores the ‘what ifs’ of bringing down a network
Precision Time Protocol (PTP) is an important element of any IP infrastructure, and the industry has been keen to see a SMPTE report on PTP security, looking at issues and mitigations around the core timing infrastructure. George Jarrett talks to former SMPTE VP of Standards Development Bruce Devlin about this ...
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Making the DVB Project an internet centric organisation
Native IP takes the DVB to the front line of video delivery, in the process giving the satellite companies a new commercial imperative. And using DVB-I as a service layer on top of 5G technologies is a second milestone, writes George Jarrett
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Setting the standard: Barbara Lange, SMPTE
At the end of the year, SMPTE executive director Barbara Lange will conclude her 12-year stewardship of the industry’s premier standards body to follow the two new career strands of helping young women find careers in STEM and exploring sustainability in the sector.
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Rory Peck Awards: Inside the winning films
Freelance news journalism at its very best: The 26th annual Rory Peck Awards produced an astonishing parade of good old-fashioned journalism at its bravest and most human, writes George Jarrett.
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IP facilities: lessons from the frontline
Senior figures from studios, broadcast groups and networks and technology suppliers came together recently to discuss early implementations of IP-based workflows, talk about their successes and learn from their mistakes.
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Psychological first aid for freelancers
The Rory Peck Trust, the charity representing freelance news journalists, has teamed up with Facebook for two-part trauma and resilience pilot programme, that focusses on the treatable ‘injury’ aspects of post-traumatic stress injury rather than the tortuous ‘damage’ aspects of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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The 5G gang: The coming of 5G Vista
Delivering richer fan experiences while more effectively using network resources are just two of the benefits of 5G Vista, but its potential goes way beyond this, as the team behind the project discussed at a recent demo day.
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5G-MAG: What counts for 5G and 3GPP is the scale
Back at IBC 2019, the launch of 5G-MAG (Media Action Group) promised a multi-layer network offering unicast and multicast services, and the live prospect of a satellite overlay network. 5G-MAG head of technology Jordi J Giménez shares what has happened since launch.
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Inside the SRT plugfest: Demos, debate and technical growth
The arrival of high-quality, low-latency video streaming has much to do with the widely adopted SRT protocol. George Jarrett speaks to Haivision CMO Peter Maag about recent developments.
