Ian Nock

Alphabet Soup – What we know about UHD interoperability from Plugfests

We attended, provided demos and presented at the 4K HDR Summit in Malaga last week (https://www.4ksummit.com/4k-uhd-summit-2017/agenda/). An enjoyable event with extremely good speakers on the business and technology of 4K/UHD video services, and we were honoured to present our learnings about UHD and specifically HDR from the work that Fairmile West has been involved in since becoming a member of the Ultra HD Forum back in 2015, and the many projects that we have engaged on in the video space with UHD. We also provided demonstrations of High Frame Rate and High Dynamic Range technology and content, as well as methods of providing improved customer experience with multiple HDR formats and the conversion of SDR to HDR video, in conjunction with Ultra HD Forum members Harmonic, Huawei, LGE, BBRIGHT and ATEME.

You may wish to see our presentation slides from the event.

You can find more information about the Ultra HD Forum at https://ultrahdforum.org/membership/

If you have questions regarding Ultra HD, 4K, HDR and the other related technologies for your products, then please do get in touch to discuss further.

Fairmile West is a Consulting company focused on working in the Consumer Device and Video arena. We work with clients on technology strategy and product delivery through key practices in Consumer Devices and Video Services. If you are interested in learning more about what we do, please do get in touch via our website – Contact us. You can also keep track with what interests us in the industry by following our Link blog at TV Tech News, and you can specifically follow news on Ultra HD via the following link – Ultra HD News.

Published by Ian Nock

Ian Nock is the Managing Director of Fairmile West Consulting, and has over 25 years experience in high technology research, development, and operations. Since entering the TV industry in the late 1990s, he has worked in the delivery of many Satellite, Cable, IPTV and OTT video platforms across Europe in diverse roles that encompass technology and operations from production to consumption. Ian moved into consulting in 2004 working with some of the most innovative vendor and operator companies in the industry. He founded Fairmile West Consulting (www.fairmilewest.com) in 2012 as a multi-national, high expertise Digital TV and Media consulting and professional services company, working with large/small operators and technology vendors on product/technology strategy, architecture, and delivery. Taking an early interest in the development of Ultra HD, Fairmile West has been a member of the Ultra HD Forum since 2015 and Ian is the Chair of the Ultra HD Forum Interop Working Group. Ian is also the Chair of the IET Multimedia Communications Technical Professional Network. Ian graduated with a First Class Bachelors Degree in Engineering Technology in 1992 from Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), undertaking research into medical automation, flexible packaging dynamics and post graduate research into artificial intelligence based control systems with a number of published papers in those areas. He quickly jumped out of academia into the nascent Internet and Networking industry before moving into TV. He is a member of the IET, IEEE, RTS and Fellow of the SCTE: The Society for Broadband Professionals. He blogs at http://fairmilewest.com, on LinkedIn and can be found on Twitter at @iannock.