Not my title I hasten to add. Still, a decent look at the then freshly announced UE5 and its fairly jaw-dropping capabilities.
Video Piracy Laws and What Needs to Change
An interview with Christine Maury Panis, VO’s EVP, General Counsel and Public Affairs, on piracy in 2020, the impact of Covid-19, and how video piracy laws need to evolve.
Analysis: The supply chain in the time of coronavirus
A piece written for IBC365 at the end of March looking at how, with Covid-19 impacting all areas of the media and broadcast sector, supply chains may suffer due to the growing pandemic.
France's national 1950s HD system
France has always liked to go its own way on technology, but not many remember its pioneering efforts with 819-line monochrome television. They should.
NAMM Audio Highlights
A quick piece for RedShark rounding up some of the more significant news from NAMM 2020.
What Brexit means for the broadcast industry
The one where I manage to write about Brexit without explicitly saying how stupid it all is….
Sweet and divine, Razr of mine
Folding phones have had an already chequered history, but Motorola’s new Razr phone seems to be both agreeably retro and absolutely cutting edge (and that’s my favourite self-penned headline of the year).
Fortnite World Cup Finals: Ncam drops in live AR characters
Always wanted to write for Post magazine, and eventually I got to. Okay, so it’s not bylined, but this case study was put together for a client - Bubble Agency - from various bits and pieces of supplied material.
All about object-based media
A recent one for a client looking at the potential for object-based media to change rather a lot of things.
Sony’s 40th Anniversary Walkman has a very cute trick
Nostalgia for the early days of the digital age moves on to Sony’s once ubiquitous music player, the venerable Walkman. Hang on, is that a cassette we see?
An IBC preview
Summer is, of course the time for writing IBC previews, so here’s one I did for a client in August.
These moon landing tapes are worth at least $1 million
$1.82 million as it turned out… The last of the Moon Landing Anniversary pieces (this time round at least) returned to the theme of the lost tapes and some new ones that had been unearthed.
Capturing the first - and last - steps on the Moon
NASA has always known the value of good publicity so, as well as the towering technological achievement of the Moon landings, it also put huge efforts into making sure the American public got to see them happen in realtime.
Behind the Scenes: Apollo 11
A new documentary film about the Apollo 11 Moon Landing features previously unseen 70mm footage that helps provide a whole new take on the mission and its legacy as it nears its 50th Anniversary.
What the Final Fantasy VII remake tells us about the future of CG
A piece for RedShark on the remake of FFVII due out next year.
Examining M&A in 2019
A three-part series for IBC365 looking at 2019 Merger & Acquisition activity in the broadcast sector.