The Hunt for the Missing Engineers

Following my earlier work for Skillset on their strategic action plan for the UK’s Facility Sector, I have been following Skillset’s blog concerning the source of engineers in the UK.
Part of my previous work on the Strategic Plan brought me in contact with John Maizels in Australia and his work on their certification programme [...]

Sunshine and blue skies

Ah the joy of working for one’s self! Today is just right for reading in the sunshine, so that’s what I’m doing. I have four books to review for IBC Radio this year (105.6 fm).

Descriptive Metadata for Television – by Mike Cox, Linda Tadic & Ellen Mulder
IPTV  & Internet Video – by Wes Simpson & Howard [...]

Training success

I just had a wonderful email that I’ve put onto my Digital Television Specialist blog:
digitaltelevisionspecialist.wordpress.com
I did the training for First Post/South West Screen in Bristol for a lovely group of trainees.

Benjamin and I have been watching Dr Who all week. A little ritual at 7pm when we settle down to be frightened and discuss special effects!
Benjamin, like a generation or two before him, hides when the monsters arrive. And the Cybermen and Daleks are just as scary now as they were back in the ’60s! [...]

IBC 2006

Iv’e just arrived in Amsterdam for this year’s exhibition. It’s going to be a busy show for me this year with two projects to research and report on.
I am looking at these general areas of activity:

Delivering video material over IP networks
Digital Asset Management systems & Integration
Film grading technologies
Digital Terrestrial TV technologies

That’s quite a load to [...]

Development in Display Technology

Just posted an item about exciting new development in display technology. Still at experimental stage but could be amazing.

We knew about Vera – we must be around 50…

Had a lovely afternoon helping Martin Parsons celebrate being 50. The gathering included some of the great names of London’s Post production scene and we chatted happily for hours.
I mentioned an item I’d read about on the TIG that had a link to some ancient footage of the BBC’s first video tape recorder (Video Electronic [...]

Useful DI website

One of the most interesting projects I’ve been involved in over the last year or so is that of managing the installation of a big digital film grading system for my client Midnight Transfer.
During the course of the project I met Steve Shaw, who unusually perhaps, is an active colourist as well as a [...]

IPTV – interesting article

IPTV and Mobile TV are exciting technologies that I follow: Useful introductory article here:

IPTV’s key building blocksBY TAM DOJul 1, 2006 12:00 PM

Broadcast Engineering | IPTV’s key building blocks

technorati tags:IPTV, MobileTV, TV, Broadcast

Fancy Being a TV Judge?

If you fancy yourself as a judge of what’s hot in broadcast technology then take a look at the article below. I came across it at http://broadcastengineering.com
Hugh

Become an IBC Pick Hits judge!
Aug 2, 2006 3:11 PM
Ever wanted to be one of the Broadcast Engineering Pick Hit judges?
The magazine is seeking experienced engineers and technical managers [...]