All articles by John Maxwell Hobbs – Page 2
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Industry TrendsIBC2023 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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Industry TrendsIBC2023 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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Industry TrendsIBC2023 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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Industry TrendsInside 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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Industry TrendsInterview: 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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Industry TrendsInterview: 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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Industry TrendsArtificial 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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Industry TrendsMoving 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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Industry TrendsDolby 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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Industry TrendsDolby 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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Industry TrendsGenerative 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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Industry TrendsIWD2023: 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 ...
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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 Trends5G 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 TrendsDolby 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 TrendsObject-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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