Disruptive technologies including driverless cars, single camera virtual reality, 4D and automated post-production tools will be showcased at this year’s IBC conference and exhibition being held in September in Amsterdam.
The rapid convergence of broadcast, IT and telecoms, will underpin this year’s conference theme ‘The Future of Media in an Age of Disruption’. Forums will feature insight into business disruptors, chart future technological progress and distil how the industry can seize the new opportunities being created by the growth in the consumption of TV and video content on smartphones, tablets and laptops.
In exhibition highlights, UK broadcaster the BBC’s R&D team will showcase an Oculus-based immersive tour revealing its approach to a future IP-based production infrastructure. According to the BBC IP provides an opportunity to make object-based media and entirely new content experiences.
The BBC has recently launched a public facing audience testing platform called Taster which gives viewers a chance to sample the sort of interactive and personal content that can be enabled by an IP-enabled broadcast environment. BBC R&D will be unveiling the first results of the trial at the conference.
Meanwhile Japan’s NTT will be detailing a R&D project that intends to establish media processing technologies that can transmit ultra-high-definition video surpassing even 8K, within five years.
The NTT project is investigating an immersive telepresence technology called Kirari!, which is a technique for directly transmitting images and sounds of players at a live sports event in addition to added layers of environment and therefore the 'emotions' in which the game exists.
Australia’s ABC will feature in the session “The Future Of Broadcasting: Hot topics and game changers” with the broadcaster’s COO David Pendleton appearing as a key panellist.
In other keynote’s Sling TV’s CEO Roger Lynch will address the conference with the ‘Over the Top Comes of Age’ session to discuss how Sling TV (part of DISH) is tapping into the Over The Top market for content, and facing the toughest of tough competition for eyeballs from the likes of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and the other OTT players.
CombiTel’s international vendor partners Video Flow and Media Excel will both be exhibiting at IBC. VideoFlow will be showcasing its new Controlled Adaptive Rate (CAR) technology. The solution enhances video quality by dynamically adapting the encoder bitrate in real-time to maximize usage of the available network bandwidth, and reducing bitrate when there are network congestion and bandwidth limitations, thus ensuring uninterrupted high quality, high availability service.
Eran Shalev, VideoFlow’s VP marketing, said, “VideoFlow has developed technologies to make IP networks reliable for live video delivery by ensuring uninterrupted, high quality, live video service and CAR is the latest technology added to complete eight layers of protection. CAR further allows us to make any IP network, managed or unmanaged, as stable and robust as traditional methods but significantly less expensive.”
Media Excel will also be sharing the latest insights at the fore front of Ultra HD and HEVC deployments worldwide . Media Excel supplies CombiTel and carriers around the globe with reliable software solutions for real-time multiscreen video delivery. Solutions from Media Excel service more than 300 million multiscreen subscribers worldwide.
The IBC2015 Conference and exhibition will be held during 10 - 14 September 2015 in Amsterdam.
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