After decades of operating within the same fundamental model, the walls around our world – what was the broadcast world, or “vertical”, in marketing terms – are crumbling. NAB 2016 clearly showed this and IBC 2016 took it one step further: momentum is strengthening as we push towards an IP future. The TVB2020 conference earlier this year also reflected this. Chris Exelby, Chairman of the UK Regional Council of the IABM, wrote an excellent piece in a recent newsletter, highlighting the “perfect storm”, as he terms it, of “financial, technical and structural” changes. He added, “The move to IP heralds a fundamental change in the infrastructure and opens the doors to new suppliers from the IT sector.” And that is really the nub of the issue.
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