Evolution not revolution

Frank Jachetta, chief executive at MultiDyne told us that IP has a lot to offer, both as a multiplexing scheme and a pure transport medium.

“The front lines of content acquisition are still mostly baseband,” he said, “but IP is increasingly coming forward from the studio or the truck; throughout 2020, we will continue to see IP coming more to the forefront of live production as the next generation of technologies mature and adoption grows.”

Skaarhoj chief executive Kasper Skårhøj concurred, adding that answers are increasingly coming from software advances; his company, which makes universal control surfaces, has, he said, “had increasing interest from camera manufacturers, leading to specialisation and collaboration between vendors.”

The first word that came to TinkerList’s chief executive Erik Hauters was ‘dematerialisation’, and the need for more dedicated software and fewer machines. “To make production cheaper and teams smaller, processes in TV production will have to be automated to be more cost-efficient,” he said. “This shift in the way we work is also due to the upcoming popularity of remote production. A final trend is sustainability and optimising TV production to go green and reduce waste. Digital tools…