All articles by John Maxwell Hobbs – Page 2
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Industry TrendsIn-depth: Behind the Scenes at RTÉ Visual Radio Studios
Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ has recently built out a range of new studio facilities. John Maxwell Hobbs gets the grand tour, and investigates some of the thinking driving visual studio design.
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Industry Trends
5G NR: The Other Side of 5G
To the general public, 5G mobile networks are mainly a better version of 4G and 3G that gives faster download speeds with lower latency. Although this is true, it’s only part of the story, as John Maxwell Hobbs reports.
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Industry Trends
Dolby Atmos: Producing with object-based audio
In a previous article (Object-based audio – immersive experiences and personalisation) we explored the possibilities that working with object-based audio affords in the areas of immersive experiences and personalisation.
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Industry Trends
Object-based audio – immersive experiences and personalisation
Object-based audio production has begun to get the attention of consumers over the past year with Dolby Atmos technology incorporated into headphones, speakers, and soundbars from a variety of vendors. Both Apple, Amazon, and Tidal also offer special Atmos-encoded spatial audio streams.
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Industry Trends
IBC Kickstarts 2022 Accelerator Programme at the IET
IBC held its first in-person event for two years last week when the IBC Accelerator Kickstart Day took place at Savoy Place, the home of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and the original home of the BBC, on 7 April.
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Industry Trends
Media tech start-ups: Incubation and growth
It’s easy to think of the media technology space as being made up of a handful of large players. But for every Sony, Avid and Grass Valley, there are independent, innovative start-ups changing the landscape.
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Industry Trends
Flexibility, scalability and complexity: Inside BBC Wales’ all-IP Central Square facility
The 15 July 2019 marked BBC Wales’ inaugural live transmission from Central Square, its new headquarters in the heart of Cardiff, by Announcer/Director Tim Cooper. Shortly after that, the first radio broadcast went out on 25 July. By September of 2020, TV news programmes including Wales Today and Newyddion had ...
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Industry Trends
Gender Diversity in Broadcast Technology: How are Vendors and Organisations Responding?
A lack of gender diversity continues to be a problem in the field of broadcast engineering. In part one of this article, we focused on the working environment for women employed by broadcasters, but what are vendors and industry organisations doing to address this imbalance?
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Industry Trends
IWD: Gender diversity in broadcast technology: More needs to be done
International Women’s Day: Technology has a reputation for being solely the domain of white men, and broadcast engineering is no exception. In fact, historically, it has had less gender diversity than other technology industries. But in this era of increasing focus on diversity, how is broadcasting doing?
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Industry Trends
Relocating ITV Post and Creative
How did ITV manage to relocate post and production departments out of its South Bank HQ on Friday and into the new one on the following Monday?
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Industry Trends
Tuning radio for South Sudan
Most stories about new broadcast facilities are all about beautiful buildings designed by ‘starchitects’ featuring soaring atriums and state-of-the-art studios and production systems. This is not one of them. This is the story of tin-roofed, mudbrick buildings with no air-conditioning, and brand new, old-fashioned analogue production kit.
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Industry Trends
Blog: Crossing the inflection point
The media industry is at an inflection point, one in which we have no clear view as to where we’ll end up, or who the winners will be.
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Industry Trends
Cross-pollinating the cluster: Inside Media City Bergen
Norway’s new technology and broadcasting hub Media City Bergen is a shining example of collaboration and innovation.
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Executive Interviews
CTO Series: Matthew Postgate, BBC
BBC CTO Matthew Postgate on the broadcaster’s ambition to become an internet broadcaster and the “very real” security threat faced by media organisations.
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Executive Interviews
CTO Series: Bevan Gibson, ITN
A broadcast news organisation needs flexible reactions and infrastructure to deliver current affairs on time, but also forward planning and skills investment to guarantee continued success, according to ITN’s Bevan Gibson
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Industry Trends
Blog: Teaching old dogs new tricks
In the fresh connected world of IP, do years of experience in broadcast engineering still count, or should veteran technicians just hang up their SDI cables and retire?
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Industry Trends
Virtual reality and augmented reality in broadcasting
Broadcasters around the world have been exploring virtual and augmented reality. John Maxwell Hobbs looks at some of the best examples.
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Executive Interviews
CTO Series: Mohamed Abuagla, Al Jazeera
The key challenges facing the broadcast industry are not just to do with technology, according to Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Abuagla.
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Industry Trends
Blog: There's no such thing as a magic bullet
With ever-increasing competition among broadcasters for viewers and revenue, John Maxwell Hobbs asserts there is no ‘magic bullet’.
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