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.
Industry TrendsDTG2023: FAST and Curious, AR and Fan Wonderment
With a part two look at the DTG’s The Bigger Picture event, George Jarrett reports on two sessions that particularly caught the ear, one dubbed The FAST Track to Success, and a fascinating session on Extended Fan Experiences.
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DTG2023: The Media Bill, OFCOM and ITVX Forge the Bigger Picture
The DTG’s annual conference, hosted by TV/radio presenter Sasha Twining, covered a dozen subjects under the banner of The Bigger Picture. Monetisation has cast a nasty shadow over streaming, and consumers are consumed by financial concerns that have shunted them towards nostalgia. George Jarrett reports.
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DIMPACT - ‘Picking up where Albert leaves off’
A 25-company group of broadcasters, streamers and digital publishers make up the Responsible Media Forum, which has created a spin-off project designed to calculate the carbon emissions of the downstream value chain. George Jarrett speaks to a key stakeholder to report on progress.
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ITV Academy: Lowering barriers and increasing skillsets
Direct accelerated training: ITV lays out its tactics for resolving the skills shortages that are handicapping production, with the launch of an ITV Academy that will merge new training plans with those that already exist. But not under one roof. George Jarrett talks to the director of this crucial long-term ...
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Generative AI and sustainability: Vital, but at a price
Featuring four of the 30 experts who helped the DPP compile its ‘free to all’ annual predictions report, the webinar titled The Year Ahead in Media was a great taster event marked by the use of key 2023 lingo like ‘actionable insights’. DPP CEO Mark Harrison, led the event, reports ...
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Multi-codec and Multi CDN strategies dominate the IPTV business
Consumer viewing habits have swung strongly towards streamed content. A Digital Television Group gathering to contemplate The TV of Tomorrow Today focussed on the niggly problems streaming can suddenly shock engineers with, sustainability ambitions around IPTV, and the over populated Codec market, reports George Jarrett.
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Markus Förderer: Perceiving The World in Anamorphic
Markus Förderer ASC, BVK, had just finished shooting Apple’s sci-fi thriller Constellation when he talked to George Jarrett about his career influences, his working practices, and what developments could boost his toolbox.
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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 ...
