"Rebasing" the Media Technology Industry
Dalet’s CEO highlights the pressing need to modernize standard operating procedures in the media technology sector.
Dalet’s CEO highlights the pressing need to modernize standard operating procedures in the media technology sector.
This year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas was nothing short of spectacular for the Dalet team. From exciting announcements to prestigious awards and new industry partnerships, the show set the tone for 2024 to be a year of innovation, efficiency, and collaboration in media technology.
AI technologies progressed drastically in the last few years. Speech-to-text and face recognition are prime examples of use cases where AI-driven solutions that have existed for many years have now reached an acceptable level of maturity and commercial viability.
Over the past 3 decades, our philosophy when creating solutions was not just to make all our customers’ content available to everyone at once. It has always been, and remains today, about the smartest way to arrange their production and distribution environment. The 100th NAB Show was a fitting venue to unveil the developments we…
For me, the excitement of the NAB Show is all about experiencing the energy of this industry, discovering new ideas and technology, exploring emerging trends and reconnecting with customers, industry colleagues and friends. At this year’s show, I had the chance to share more about what Dalet has been up to and how we have…
One of the big challenges media professionals face today is the ability to scale the capture of multiple video feeds, for example during live events. Let’s face it, recording multiple video feeds simultaneously for one or more events is (very) hardware-intensive! Organizations often invest in enough equipment to support their peak usage. It’s a major…
The return of the NAB Show in Las Vegas was nothing short of amazing. It was very special to be able to meet again with our customers, partners, and the media community as a whole after a two-year hiatus. Even though attendance was down by about half in comparison to pre-COVID shows, those attending were…
NAB Show is, for many of us, a place to connect and exchange ideas about how we can move the media industry forward in an era of extremely rapid change. Since 1992, Dalet has looked forward to and enjoyed participating in the big show. NAB has given us a wonderful stage where we have unveiled…
So many of you came to us to talk about captions during NAB. Based on our conversations, it’s clear that captions remain a huge source of frustration and worry. Broadcast workflows are more complex than ever. Add captions to the mix, and the complexity takes on a new dimension: Now, what you don’t want to do, is carry on…
It’s the end of January and in cubicles across the world the NAB planning fever has set in. Like the other 1,600 companies in our industry that will be exhibiting at the world’s largest media and entertainment trade show, we too are busy planning, designing and messaging: But this is kind of a special year…
As I reported in a previous article, we have managed to generate more than 100 entries in our first year of this esteemed blog. We have hundreds of dedicated subscribers, reading the comments on every continent, in every time zone: In true cricketing style, I think this qualifies for one of the Test Match Special’s “Champagne…
Sitting in a Las Vegas bar and talking to Old MacDonald about his Farm would be an ideal way to start a newspaper article about Farms in the 1970s. We’d probably talk about the latest tractors and what amazing mechanical gadget can be attached to them: We are living in 2014 and not 1970 and…
My favorite part of NAB is my breakfast with journalists. It is a simple format where we eat breakfast together and discuss the trends in the industry. This year we discussed Mergers, Standards and Education: If you listened carefully at NAB, you would have been able to hear the sound of companies clacking together at critical speeds like some…
As we prepare for our annual pilgrimage to the Nevada desert in search of enlightenment, something troubles me this year. Over the years, NAB has grown to the point where there is an absolute clamor and a cacophony of noise as NAB opens and companies unveil their latest Carlos Fandango system solution, which they exhort will change…
Attributed to both Mark Twain and Will Rogers, it’s one of my favourite reflections on the media technology industry and particularly apt today, the second day of NAB. I’ve already had conversations over the last couple of days with engineers and technologists who are excited about the latest gadgets and gizmos that they are expecting…
All NAB Shows are crammed full of the latest gadgets and gizmos to make your media life better, faster, easier, cheaper, and probably more confusing than ever before. It’s rare, however, that subtle legal obligations grab the technology headlines, so here’s a little thought on why NAB 2013 is different. Broadcast legal requirements For years, captioning (US) and…