Ian D. NockIET: John Logie Baird Lecture — Who’s Watching Who? “ Fairmile West ConsultingData has become the currency of the modern Internet age, encompassing our offline life, online life and entertainment experiences for…Jul 5, 2019Jul 5, 2019
Ian D. NockNAB Retrospective | Fairmile West ConsultingIt has been over three months since NAB2019 in Las Vegas which I thought was a suitable time to look back at the event and what has been…Jul 3, 2019Jul 3, 2019
Ian D. NockOTT Better Than Broadcast » Fairmile West ConsultingBack on the 26th February I attended the Streaming Forum Conference that was co-located with BVE at the ExCel in London. I was there not…Mar 22, 2019Mar 22, 2019
Ian D. NockNew Year (UHD) Resolution » Fairmile West ConsultingThe launch of 8K TV displays at IFA last year and more at CES at the beginning of January is something that I have been thinking about…Feb 11, 2019Feb 11, 2019
Ian D. NockUltra HD HDR Interoperability and the World Cup » Fairmile West ConsultingThis year we experienced the first mass market UHD HDR event that was a truly World scale and it highlighted both the maturity and…Oct 2, 2018Oct 2, 2018
Ian D. NockCodec WarsHeadlines of the last 12 months in the video encoder world have somewhat been dominated by three letters — AV1. That has led to a whole lot…May 30, 2018May 30, 2018
Ian D. NockNext Generation STB Part Deux — ApplicationsLast August, we wrote about the Next Generation STB from the perspective of a hardware platform. We discussed its role as a video…Mar 13, 2018Mar 13, 2018
Ian D. NockCES2018 and TV EntertainmentIt has been a few weeks since CES2018, and with all the PR and reports coming out of Las Vegas I think most of us have now gotten the gist…Jan 25, 2018Jan 25, 2018
Ian D. NockHDR Format Phoney War (or how it is clearer than it looks)Many have professed confusion about HDR formats, with a belief that there are large number of different formats that provide compatibility…Jan 10, 2018Jan 10, 2018
Ian D. NockAlphabet Soup — What we know about UHD interoperability from PlugfestsWe attended, provided demos and presented at the 4K HDR Summit in Malaga last week (https://www.4ksummit.com/4k-uhd-summit-2017/agenda/)…Nov 14, 2017Nov 14, 2017