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Industry TrendsIBC Changemakers Podcast: Coffee and Data Bridges of the Future
In episode Five of the IBC’s Changemaker series of Podcasts, Actors and Changemakers, Johan Wahlberg, Head of Digital Partnerships, SVT speaks to Nadira Tudor about how he brokered some powerful tech collaborations with Apple, Samsung, Google and Amazon amongst many many more well-known companies- fuelled mostly by caffeine.
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IFA 2023: Briefcase TVs, Atmos FlexConnect and miniLED panels
IFA is Europe’s largest dedicated technology show, which saw more than 2000 exhibitors gather in Berlin in early September. In 2023, more than 150,000 people attended from over 140 countries Andrew Williams took a tour of the emerging AV tech on display.
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IBC2023 Accelerator Project: 5G Mocap for Performance Arts and Live 3D Animation
Two previous Accelerator Award powerhouse winning teams have combined forces to harness the powers of 5G indoors, this time focusing on two unique, creative workstreams that will both power live, cutting-edge motion capture and low-latency connectivity into creative output, focusing on the performing arts, and 3D animation into children’s hospitals.
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Interview: Valerio Motti, Freemantle, on FAST 2.0
FAST 2.0 is here, where 250-300 hours of content is the entry level – a mere twenty hours just will not do, discovers George Jarrett in conversation with Freemantle’s Valerio Motti.
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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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Edinburgh TV Festival 2023: Crisis, Risk-taking, and AI
There was much to be concerned about at the recent Edinburgh TV Festival, but as Michael Burns reports there were also some bright sparks to cheer the industry.
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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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IBC Changemakers Podcast: Building Long Term Sustainable Change in DEI
In episode two of the IBC’s Changemaker series of Podcasts, Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at Warner Brothers Discovery, Asif Sadiq spoke with Nadira Tudor to discuss how to inspire long-term change and create policies that make a real impact.
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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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Natalya Tatarchuk: Making real-time more accessible
The VP of Unity Wētā Tools gets under the skin of 3D content creation, and emphasises the value of real time in conversation with Michael Burns.
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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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Recruitment & Retention: Navigating the Skills Shortfall
The Rise Up Academy is among several notable organisations aiming to increase and diversify the intake of new engineering talent into broadcast. But how are individual companies reacting to the skills shortfall, asks David Davies.
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Esports: Challenging the Status Quo
The world of Esports is not only a dynamic and exciting one, but has begun to attract considerable interest thanks to a more professionalised approach to content and broadcast deals. Mark Mayne reports on gaming’s rising star.
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Pixar’s Elemental Lays Foundation for AI Powered Workflow
New Pixar animation Elemental is the Walt Disney Company’s most technically complex feature film to date and required a new data storage pipe that lays the foundation for use of AI, reports Adrian Pennington.
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BE YOU Festival 2023: Speaking Up for Change
Aspirations vs. the reality of diversity progression in media production proved to be an indispensable conversation at Soho Media Club and Outernet London’s collaborative event, BE YOU Festival which took place in London this month, reports Sheryl Hickey.
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Abertay University Leads Groundbreaking Real-time 5G VP Trial
In a first for the UK film industry, a short sci-fi film sequence was shot simultaneously at locations in Manchester and Dundee using a stable, low-latency 5G connection, reports David Davies.
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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.
