John Maxwell Hobbs
As well as being a music producer and composer, John Maxwell Hobbs is CEO of music tech startup Streamline, media consultant and the former Head of Technology at BBC Scotland.
Industry TrendsIBC2023 Accelerator Project: Responsive Narrative Factory
The Responsive Narrative Factory project is one of the eight Challenges in the 2023 cohort for IBC’s Accelerator Media Innovation Programme. The project is championed by The BBC and IET and the participants are Infuse Video, MetaRex, Cuvo.io, JPB Media Solutions, and EZDRM.
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IBC2023 Accelerator Project: Synthetic Humans
The Synthetic Humans For Entertainment And Accessibility project is one of the eight Challenges in the 2023 cohort for IBC2023 Accelerator Media Innovation Programme. The project is championed by RAI, EBU, ITV, VRT, YLE, BBC, BT, Verizon Business, Kings College London, University of Southampton, UNREAL / Epic Games and the ...
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IBC2023 Accelerator Project: Gallery Agnostic Live Media Production
The Gallery Agnostic Live Media Production project is one of the eight Challenges in the 2023 cohort for IBC’s Accelerator Media Innovation Programme. The project is championed by ITN, YLE, BBC, TV2, and TRANSMIXR, and the participants are Tinkerlist, Singular.live, Techex, Grass Valley and ZIXI.
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IBC2023 Accelerator Project: Connect & Produce Anywhere
The Connect & Produce Anywhere project is one of the eight Challenges in this years cohort for the IBC2023 Accelerator Media Innovation Programme. The project is championed by DAZN, Sky Sports, BT Media & Broadcast, Vodafone Group, BBC, TV2, and the participants are LAMA, VizRT, Open Broadcast Systems, Zixi, InSync, ...
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IBC2023 Accelerators Project: Real Time Interactive Streaming
The Real Time Interactive Streaming project is one of the eight Challenges in the 2023 cohort for IBC’s Accelerator Media Innovation Programme. The project is championed by The LoLpga (Legends of the LPGA) and Verizon Business, with the participants being Red5Pro, Snipitz, AMD, Osprey, and Singular.live.
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IBC2023 Accelerator Project: 5G Motion Capture for Performance Art and Animation
The 5G Motion Capture for Performance Art and Animation project is one of the eight Challenges in the cohort for the IBC2023 Accelerator Media Innovation Programme. The project is championed by Vodafone Group, Curing Kids Cancer, Outernet Global, Production Park, University of Strathclyde, Goldsmiths University, and the participants are Singular.live, ...
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Inside the IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme for 2023
IBC’s Accelerator Media Innovation Programme will be showcasing eight projects in Amsterdam this year. Created in 2019 to provide a framework for agile, collaborative, and fast-track innovation, the programme offers a unique multi-company project-based approach to solving complex media and entertainment business and technology challenges, focused on hands-on experimentation.
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Interview: Dr Alex Connock on AI - ‘An Explosion of Creativity’
Dr Alex Connock is a Senior Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and recently wrote a textbook on media and AI. He discussed AI through in the context of media perception with John Maxwell Hobbs.
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Interview: Douglas Rushkoff on AI in Media
Professor of Media Theory Douglas Rushkoff talks AI myths, legends and hard truths with John Maxwell Hobbs.
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Artificial Intelligence: Myths and Realities
While discussions around the ethics of AI are raging in boardrooms across the globe, there are still many misconceptions about the technology. John Maxwell Hobbs takes on the task of separating fact from fiction…
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Moving from LTO to Cloud – the Media Business Case
The increasing volume of digital content and the need to derive additional revenue from it has resulted in a shift in perspectives around storage strategies, as John Maxwell Hobbs reports.
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Dolby AC-4 vs MPEG-H 3D Audio: Next-Generation Audio Codecs
While the two frontrunners in the NGA codec stakes are similar in many ways, a comparison of their background and frame of reference gives some interesting insights, writes John Maxwell Hobbs.
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Dolby Atmos in Broadcasting - Turning it up to 11
Dolby Atmos is a Next Generation Audio (NGA) technology that’s gaining considerable ground, especially in music, eSports and sports. John Maxwell Hobbs speaks to Anaïs Libolt, Director of Broadcast & Content in Europe for Dolby to get a snapshot of progress.
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Generative AI in Broadcasting: A rising tide
These days it feels as if it’s not possible to read the news or access social media without being inundated with articles and posts about Artificial Intelligence, but just how far and how useful has AI in broadcast become, asks John Maxwell Hobbs.
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IWD2023: Gender diversity in broadcast technology: forward momentum, but the pipeline needs work
In 2022, in honour of International Women’s Day, we looked at the state of gender diversity in broadcast technology. The consensus of the interviewees was that although the industry had made progress, there was more that needed to be done. One year on, we are revisiting the topic with a ...
