NAB 2018 highlights : Intelligent cloud, AI & machine learning with cognitive services
The team returned from NAB after a jam-packed week of Blackbird meetings with end users, service providers, technology partners and distributors across the news, media and entertainment (NME) sector – from news and broadcast to online…
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MacVoices: ShowStoppers – Forbidden Technologies Delivers Broadcast to Digital Via Blackbird Proxy
The following is an interview that Forbidden Technologies’ CEO, Ian McDonough, and VP of Products, Jeff Krebs, gave at NAB 2018: During ShowStoppers at NAB in Las Vegas, they profile their cloud-based Blackbird Proxy solution that…
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Forbidden Technologies interview at NAB Show 2018
The following is a video interview that Forbidden Technologies’ CEO, Ian McDonough, gave at NAB Show 2018: He discusses the Blackbird platform and the Blackbird Codec which allows for compression and decompression of video for storage,…
Read MoreNew world MAMs
There is a new worldview of Media Asset Management (MAM) technology. Once perceived as an integrated storage system linked to a platform facilitating distribution, it is now understood as an integral layer in the framework along…
Read MoreBeyond Live Streaming – brand benefits & monetisation
Live streaming looks to be a growing trend for 2018. It’s no surprise, its popularity has seen the likes of Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook Live provide live video streams to all their users. As real-time engagement…
Read MoreFilling the void before Video over IP
The Video industry has changed drastically in the last 10 years, 3D stereoscopic has come (and gone) and video resolutions have risen to 4K and beyond. As demands for providing video content for ‘every platform, everywhere’…
Read MoreMeltdown and Spectre
Introduction In my AI blog series, I have discussed the power of inductive logic and its weakness – a vulnerability to Black Swans. There are many possible realities which fit with known facts, only some of which…
Read MoreCloud-based eSports workflow for Gfinity
eSports is a sports category that is going through rapid growth. Newzoo, the leading provider of market intelligence covering the eSports market, predicts that in 2017 eSports will generate global revenues of $696 million, up 41…
Read MoreForbidden’s Vision: the Why
Why Forbidden? People often ask me this. They are asking about the name, of course, but the bigger question is about the company itself. This is important because Forbidden is a visionary company. I set up…
Read More3 Post-Event Tactics to Wow Music Fans
You’ve put on a great, sold-out music gig to thousands of excited fans. The music has finished, the band is packing up… is the excitement is really over? It doesn’t have to be! Here are three…
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