Articles by John Maxwell Hobbs

IBC2023 Accelerator Project: 5G Motion Capture for Performance Art and Animation

The 5G Motion Capture for Performance Art and Animation project is one of the eight Challenges in the cohort for the IBC2023 Accelerator Media Innovation Programme. The project is championed by Vodafone Group, Curing Kids Cancer, Outernet Global, Production Park, University of Strathclyde, Goldsmiths University, and the participants are Singular.live, D&B Solutions, Noitom and AMD.

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IBC2023 Accelerators Project: Authenticated Data Specification

The Authenticated Data Specification project is one of the eight Challenges in the 2023 cohort for IBC’s Accelerator Media Innovation Programme.

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Highlights of the Accelerator programme at IBC2022

Inside the IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme for 2023

IBC’s Accelerator Media Innovation Programme will be showcasing eight projects in Amsterdam this year. Created in 2019 to provide a framework for agile, collaborative, and fast-track innovation, the programme offers a unique multi-company project-based approach to solving complex media and entertainment business and technology challenges, focused on hands-on experimentation.

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Interview: Dr Alex Connock on AI - ‘An Explosion of Creativity’

Dr Alex Connock is a Senior Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and recently wrote a textbook on media and AI. He discussed AI through in the context of media perception with John Maxwell Hobbs.

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Dolby AC-4 vs MPEG-H 3D Audio: Next-Generation Audio Codecs

While the two frontrunners in the NGA codec stakes are similar in many ways, a comparison of their background and frame of reference gives some interesting insights, writes John Maxwell Hobbs.

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The evolution of 8K, also known as UHDTV-2

8K TV: The current state of play

2022 marked the 10th anniversary of the first significant public demonstration of 8K television when NHK and the BBC co-operated to present the London Olympic Games on 15-meter-wide screens in London, Glasgow, and Bradford, writes John Maxwell Hobbs.

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The RTÉ studios incorporate both traditional baseband and IP infrastructure

In-depth: Behind the Scenes at RTÉ Visual Radio Studios

Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ has recently built out a range of new studio facilities. John Maxwell Hobbs gets the grand tour, and investigates some of the thinking driving visual studio design.

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