special report bve2010
As we all know, broadcast is now wedded to IT.
But have we entered this new relationship
with the right skills and knowledge? IBE is the
Media Sponsor of the ‘Broadcast meets IT’
conference sessions at this year’s BVE (Earls
Court 2, 16-18 February), and this brief preview
considers some of the issues and provides
details of the event.
Broadcasting in an IT world
• How can IT handle the 100% adventure, good and bad. The way in
uptime broadcasters need, whether which each broadcast company
for news editing or playout servers? approaches IT should add to the
• IT champions remote support and collective knowledge bank for all
e-helpdesk services: can a global media companies. Problems should be
broadcast operation truly support solved once and the solutions should
foreign correspondents and be shared amongst all. IT is very good
contribution services that are at pooling information in online
becoming reliant on Internet forums, workshops and webinars. TV
connections, routers and firewalls? and the media must share best
• System problems need to be practise as it enters this new territory.
anticipated and fixed before they After all, our industry does not have
become an issue - do we have the the time or, frankly, the money for
tools to do this? every broadcaster to go it alone.
• Software patch rollout to every
I
T service management is
desktop in the organisation is no small Time to start sharing
directed by a set of highly
job for experienced IT departments,
developed processes used by IT
but what happens when edit stations Broadcast Video Expo has become a
departments around the world.
are in constant use, when every specialist technical exhibition that
ITIL v3, as it’s known, describes
In
workstation has different software, offers support to the television
best practice approaches for
different codecs and different industry. The show runs at Earls Court
managing IT infrastructures. ITIL aims
conjunction
hardware components? 2 on 16-18 February 2010. It’s free to
to reduce costs, improve productivity,
with IBE • Have broadcasters started tapping enter if you register in advance at
increase customer satisfaction and
Magazine,
into IT’s wealth of knowledge and www.broadcastvideoexpo.co.uk.
improve the delivery of services to
BVE 2010 is
experience? In conjunction with IBE Magazine,
end users.
launching a
• Do television technologists have the show is launching a new series of
On the simplest level, ITIL helps
the same level of understanding of seminars that look at the enormous
organisations know what technology
new series of
TCPIP, cloud computing and optimising technical changes taking place in the
it owns and what versions it is seminars
network infrastructures around shared sector. The programme is as follows:
running where; it assesses system
that look at
storage? Tuesday 16 February
reliability and capacity and helps
the
The media has a great deal to learn 10.30: 101 HD formats - Root6.
deploy software updates company-
from IT. There are plenty of eager 11.45: Revitalising and repurposing
wide. Essential stuff.
enormous
software vendors and IT consultancies the Dutch national archive.
It sounds great but the concept of
technical
ready to share best practise and Paul Collard, VP digital film, Ascent
making an IT department fully tuned
changes
implement sophisticated IT service Media.
to the requirements of the business is
taking place management systems. Clearly our 13.00: Epic TV - cost-effective
fraught with difficulties, even in the IT
in the sector.
industry must heed the lessons learnt centralised storage - Video Rescue.
world. There is considerable resistance
from mainstream IT - visiting shows 14.15: Everlasting content -
to standardising around set
such as the Service Desk & IT Support maintaining content IPR value in
procedures.
Show and reading Computing should archive. Panel Debate - And Cubed.
Now broadcast television and post
become a routine. 15.30: If you're under 18, is our
production has entered this IT world.
But, equally important is that the industry irrelevant?
As it dives in head first, it needs to
industry must be open and frank Duncan Lewis, CEO, Vislink.
ask some fundamental questions:
about its own experiences in this IT 16.30: Commercialising your library.
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