David Davies has been a freelance journalist and editor for two decades, specialising in broadcast, music, AV and green technologies. He is a regular contributor to IBC365, Installation and FEED, and a long-time writer for several content agencies, focusing on issues including media technology and sustainability. He has also written longer-form content, including technical white papers, for leading broadcast and audio manufacturers.
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In anticipation of the Technical Papers Programme at IBC2025, David Davies delves into a selection of the top paper submissions for 2025 and what they reveal about the industry’s most influential technologies.
RD Studios’ new live-action children’s TV series – which itself has a sustainability theme – has been made using 100% recyclable sets, writes David Davies.
Blake Bassett, Vice-President of Product at streaming service Tubi, will be among the panellists for the IBC conference session ‘Mythbusting AI: Demonstrating the Impact on the Bottom Line’, on 14 September.
The addition of Actus Digital to the LiveU family is expected to enhance AI innovation, increase appeal to “mission critical” environments, and assist with customers’ digital transformation, writes David Davies.
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With parts of the EU AI Act coming into force earlier this year, it’s a timely moment to assess the legal outlook for AI and the media. But is there a danger that, in some regards, it could already be a case of too little, too late?
Increasingly powerful analysis platforms, infrastructure optimisation, improved resource utilisation and new methods of compression are among the developments helping the streaming sector to reduce its environmental impact, writes David Davies.
The recently appointed CEO of the International Trade Association of Broadcast & Media Technology (IABM), Saleha Williams, has combined creative, commercial and technological interests in media throughout her career. As David Davies discovers, this means she is ideally placed to deliver “transformational change” at IABM.
Advances in GPU capability and algorithms are among the developments allowing ‘more to be done with less’ as virtual production technology and techniques continue to evolve, writes David Davies.
Forecasts from AVIXA offer strong growth predictions for the proAV industry until the end of the decade. David Davies finds out what’s driving the expansion, and what it tells about the ongoing convergence between broadcast and AV.
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During the past two years, the BBC has announced some of the most extensive cuts in its history, affecting nearly all of its production and creative departments. However, it’s the reductions to BBC News and the World Service that are arguably most concerning. David Davies reports.
