Monthly Archives: September, 2008
IBC2008 3D VOD/EPG
I promised to return and talk about the 3D VOD/EPG demonstrator shown on the Eventis stand. As you can see from the pictures, it offers a very simple effect that is much more effective in person. It does offer a novel way of providing you with information about the movie or giving you a foreground [...]
IBC2008 Trouble in store
It was a first for me in all my time going to IBC and other exhibitions/conferences – seizure of goods due to legal issues with implemented technology. You hear about it happening in the press, but here at IBC2008 it was the first time that I witnessed the event. I could not pick up all [...]
IBC2008 Oh the humanity of technology
Well it all went wrong, and I have lost the ability to blog. My nice little EEEPC decided to suffer a boot failure, which has required me to take an entirely different tack with my reporting from IBC2008. I will instead now collect my thoughts and information together after the event and post then about [...]
IBC2008 1st Day
After a rushed journey to the airport (up at 04:00, at Gatwick by 5:30, flight delayed by half an hour and cracks about what does the 0 stand for – Oh my god its early!) I arrived in Amsterdam. As is traditional (and many other people have commented on it), it is raining but the [...]
IBC2008 D-Day approaches
As mentioned earlier, I am travelling to IBC2008 in Amsterdam. My thoughts earlier were about IPTV breaking big time this year, and I think that is a given. The interesting thing will be whether this will be in the connected home sense. What I mean by this, is a full in-home/out-of-home multi-vendor, standards based ecology [...]