This year’s DVB World International Conference (Berlin, March 9th to 11th) sees the introduction of “David’s DVB World Blog”, creating a virtual discussion space in parallel to the actual conference sessions, moderated by the EBU’s David Wood. The live blog will enable the participation of conference delegates as well as those that would like to follow the conference but are unable to attend.
With wireless internet access available free-of-charge at the conference venue for all delegates, they will be free to read and comment on the blog throughout the event.
David Wood, Deputy Director of EBU Technical Department, will host the blog, giving his own unique take on the topics under discussion at DVB World 2009. Delegates will be invited to comment on – or disagree with – the presentations. The blog gives them an opportunity to express their own opinions and add value by, for example, linking to other relevant online resources. Session Chairs will follow the blog and can use the comments as a basis for questions for the panellists and an interactive discussion.
“The blog will be a great opportunity to tune in for the duration of the conference and connect up with those that you work with, those you admire, and those with whom you disagree. Blogs are there to be commented on, and everyone is invited to do so. It is simplicity itself. In fact it’s practically a condition of attending DVB World” remarked David Wood.
27/02/2009 at 12:39
Thanks David for this great initiative of setting-up a DVB World Conference blog. I hope a lot of fellow DVB members will use this blog to develop a constructive positive debate about the future of our industry. Let me op en this debate with the following.
Standardisation drives costs down allowing new great technological enablers to become available for the masses in an affordable way IF it is not impeded by predatory and complex -read: recurring or usage based – licensing fees. I hope the global economical downturn will make those predators revisit their strategy from a ‘zero times huge license fee equals zero revenue’ to ‘many very little license fees equals a decent revenue’.
28/02/2009 at 08:58
Good point Chris.
If the licence fees for ’standards’ are greater than the usage cost for using a proprietary systems which does the same thing (‘accesible’ systems rather than common standards) the value of having a common standard rather goes out of the window.
…but, but, but they are not really ‘predators’ – the reason western industry looks to licence income to a greater and greater extent is because their income from manufacturing itself continues to diminish, as goods are manufactured in developing countries …so they have to find some other way to compensate and pay costs and salaries.
Alas for them, imposing high licence fees will discourage standards use a a technology, so this is something of a catch 22 situation, the heart of which is finding a viable ‘business plan’ for western industry.
Do you agree?