IBC, Europe’s largest professional broadcast show, happens yearly at about the same time it starts to become necessary to pick up the leaves in the garden. So we flew to Amsterdam to leave the picking to someone else, have beers and attend the event (in that order.)
3D
3D was everywhere. There is no doubt the industry as a whole is convinced 3D will rule the world. The hope is that we all exchange our new equipment for newer equipment, only now 3D capable. We’re not convinced, personally, but since this likely implies more HDMI-CEC will be around, we’re all for it. He he…
Think different
The other trend we noticed is the standardization of services and messages. Everybody is essentially doing and saying the same thing, and it revolves around positive buzzwords such as “cutting-edge”, “award-winning”, “turnkey”, and “flexible”.
Buzzword bingo, anyone?