Category Archives: General
IBC comes around again… is this one about real IPTV?
Well September has rolled around again and IBC is coming. All of our mailboxes are full of bumf, invites and some that can only be described as spam for even the hardened IBC visitor. However what will it bring this year? Previous years have been about 3D and IPTV, and of course we cannot forget mobile [...]
IBC2009 Informal Social Meetup
Are you in Amsterdam for IBC2009? at a loose end after all the vendor or customer meetings and want a relaxing drink in convivial surroundings? A number of Amsterdam bound and Amsterdam housed Digital TV professionals are going to be meeting up for an informal drink inside/outside (Weather dependent) of Hoopmans (http://www.hoopman.nl/hoopman.htm ) in Leidseplein, [...]
IBC2009: Joiners and Socialisers
A major part of IBC is the experience of meeting your fellow peers from all across the world, after the seeing, touching and hearing about upcoming technology in your own field all in one place. So how do you keep socialised with your peers and friends that you have in the business away from IBC? [...]
IBC 2009 Approaching…
The blog has been a little quiet, but this has been down to some pretty intense project work for a major vendor. However IBC is quickly approaching and thoughts are now turning to what is coming and what I shall be looking at for my annual time there (although a little curtailed compared to normal [...]
Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year
From all at Blackarrow Consulting, we wish you an enjoyable, refreshing and renewing holiday. Best wishes and success in 2009. As it is the season of giving, we wish to give you the gift of learning about Blogs and RSS, as well as a starting point list of blogs that we have collected in the [...]
Digital TV and Social Networking: Friendfeed Room
The blog world is buzzing with all sorts of new applications being used by the tech world, however the DTV industry seems to be slightly holding back apart from the purchase of Plaxo by Comcast earlier this year. Not being one to hold back, I have been delving into this world for some time however, [...]
IBC2008 Audio Resources
Super fun bonus for DTV folks, there is a very good resource for those who could not attend the conference side of IBC – audio recordings in MP3 format of the sessions. You may lose a little from not having visuals, but this is nothing to be sniffed at. You can find these on http://qedsessions.mc.sideshow.com/ibc2008/session/. [...]
Economic Climate impact and the Cable TV Industry
During the week I went up to London to attend the SCTE Autumn Lecture and the SCTE AGM. This was an interesting and thought provoking day as much for the technology discussed in the lectures, but also for the out of meeting discussions about the current financial situation in the markets. There was a degree [...]
Mutterings On Competition
Reading through my very own selection of blogs (via Google Reader), I gain a lot of information across a wide number of different subjects. Some relevant information, I place in my own customised ‘The Deeper News Headlines‘ feed that you can find just at the top right. Well today, I found something that I had [...]
What would the world be like without Flash Memory?
From retrothing, a picture of Kodak’s first Digital Camera. Is this what the world would be like without flash memory devices? As I wait for an 8GB SDHC card to be delivered, I think that the world is a better place with flash than having a load of cassette tapes running around. I would hate [...]