Features

Watching TV is not supposed to be hard. It should be pleasurable, but the industry has tied itself in knots as content and platforms fragment then coalesce in the shift to streaming.

Vincent Grivet, Chairman of the HbbTV Association, reveals how a new digital rights management (DRM) specification will enable the reliable and secure delivery of premium content via HbbTV-based services, especially for applications approaching the complexity and content protection demands of video-on-demand (VOD) platforms.

The all-new IBC Incubator 2025: Changing the Game Again levels up in multiple different ways. The core concept is a wide-ranging extension of the 2024 Accelerator ‘AI Media Production Labs’, retaining several of the veteran Champions and Participants, but also widening industry engagement.

It seems unlikely that Mark Gatiss would ever get angry but mention ‘cosy crime’ and the Sherlock creator exhibits mild exasperation.

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.

F1: The Movie gives the sensation of racing at 200mph from a driver’s eye view thanks to two sets of new cameras custom-engineered for the film.

The recent Global Esports Industry Week (GEIW) and BLAST.tv Austin Major provided a real-world insight into the relationship between esports content production and high-end broadcast. Ivan Simic reports.

The Master Control Cloud project, part of the 2025 IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme, aims to build a proof-of-concept system that reimagines the traditional broadcast master control room as a scalable, cloud-native service.

In just a few weeks’ time, the global media and entertainment industry will convene at the RAI in Amsterdam for this year’s IBC. As usual, technology innovations and new business models will be on show, along with the usual presence of informative and influential speakers.

Favoriz Production used Haivision technology for agile live production in the French Alps – a landscape with limited 4G coverage and no public IP infrastructure.