scte PRESENTS
Event Report Paul Markham Broadcast & Media Technology Leader | Helping Media Navigate Cloud & AI | Event Host | Freelance Writer | AWS Community Builder | Royal Television Society Nominated Inspiring Technologist 2024
Key quotes and takeaways “We will at the right moment transition from broadcast but we don’t yet know what that moment will be” - Richard Lindsay-Davies, Digital TV Group (DTG) emphasising that although certain dates are often discussed, nothing has been decided. “We can’t just focus on the commercial value and ignore the social value” - Xavier Leclercq, Broadpeak, explaining that although operators are focused on commercial issues, the role of television in society is also important and government leadership needs to help the industry ensure no-one is left behind. “The biggest sustainability gain comes from only running one system, not many systems” - Phil Layton, BBC R&D, highlighting the research BBC R&D has done on the environmental impact of different distribution technologies. “Our job is to be invisible” - Iuniana Oprescu, Sky, discussing how successful transitions are opaque to end users and viewers shouldn’t need to know or care about how video reaches them. “We really need to be careful about setting the standards higher than what we’ve had previously” - Ian Nock, Fairmile West Consulting, who articulated the varied history of TV user experience, from manual tuning knobs to co-ax cables and signal boosters. “If we’ve got to put people on a training course to watch TV, we’ve probably got it wrong” - Richard Lindsay-Davies highlighting the smart TV usability challenge. “We’ve all heard the anecdotes about hearing people cheering goals, but is there any evidence for how much viewers really care about latency?” - my question to Keith Chow from Nokia who demonstrated a very impressive sub-2s latency video distribution system leveraging IP Multicast and Deep Reinforcement Learning.
Yesterday at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in Central London, a group of media professionals gathered for “TV to IP: The Capacity Challenge”, an event organised by SCTE ® (the Society for Broadband Professionals) and sponsored by Broadpeak and Nokia.
Thanks to all the panelists and organisers for a very informative and engaging day!
To read the full discussion please visit Paul’s linkedin page: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulmarkham1
Volume 47 No.4 DECEMBER 2025
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