By Philip Perry We marvel at movies like Ant Man, Inner Space, and Fantastic Voyage, where someone or something can shrink down to the nanoscale and navigate a microscopic world. Although shrinking something down with some type of laser or energy field is all but impossible today, we are beginning to exact more and…
By TheFuture · On October 9, 2017 “I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise.” – Chuck Noland, “Cast Away,” 20th Century Fox, 2000First, it was Al Gore inventing the Internet. Then, Tim Berners-Lee came up…
Good Content Should Be Protected By TheFuture · On October 2, 2017 “Though the world has changed, our enemy remains the same.” – Selene, “Underworld Awakening,” Screen Gems, 2012With this year’s Emmys, it was still obvious that diversity and equality come slowly for the M&E industry – heck, every industry – except for one area.…
IBC 2017 – Fantastic people, great memories, plenty of H2O and possibly too much caffeine. Thanks to all the journalists for meeting our customers and the great coverage in the IBC Daily. The pedometer tells me that we walked, skipped and ran about 50 kilometers over the 5 days. Just as well that Denise and I had stayed fit…
How Vintage Cloud simplified the film transfer to the digital world. Peter Englesson, CEO of Vintage Cloud tells us more about the Vintage Cloud Steenbeck digitizer which is based on Steenbeck’s legendary film transport. It’s the only system capable of digitizing separate image and audio at the same time at up to 4K resolution and…
Jean-François Nivart, CEO of Image Matters explains what origami provides for the IP, 4K and 8K technologies and how modularity responds to many needs in image processing. About Image Matters Image Matters provides unique FPGA video processing modules to accelerate image processing and save time in acquisition, (post)production, distribution and archiving. Image Matters advanced…
Christophe Kummer, CEO of NOA, explains the principle behind Archive Asset Management (AAM) and why semantic metadata are crucial to digitizing huge archives. About NOA GmbH NOA delivers scalable, high quality AV digitizing and archiving innovations to make audio and video archives easily available in enterprise storage facilities. Sustainable long term preservation of media content is…
IBC2017 has revealed record-breaking attendance figures for its 50th anniversary conference. Over the six-day event from 14th-19th September, 57,699 people visited the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre in Amsterdam to find out more about new innovations and opportunities across the technology sector. Visitors to the 15 exhibition halls witnessed many exciting new launches; from the…
Facebook automatically finds and tags friends in your photos. Google Deepmind’s AlphaGo computer program trounced champions at the ancient game of Go last year. Skype translates spoken conversations in real time – and pretty accurately too. Behind all this is a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning. But what is deep learning and how…
