Author: 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.
Roundtable: Defining What Premium Content Is
OTT Better Than Broadcast
New Year (UHD) Resolution
Connected TV Summit 2019: What our Connies judges are predicting for TV
Streaming Forum 2019: Is OTT better than broadcast?
Redefining the visual experience – advances in UHD & HDR at the Sky Technical Summit
Ultra HD HDR Interoperability and the World Cup
Ultra HD Forum at the Sky Tech Summit 2018 and IBC2018
Fairmile West and IBC2018
Codec Wars
Next Generation STB Part Deux – Applications
CES2018 and TV Entertainment
HDR Format Phoney War (or how it is clearer than it looks)
What is TV? #WorldTVDay
Alphabet Soup – What we know about UHD interoperability from Plugfests
To go where no one has gone before
Looking forward to IBC2017 and back at NAB17
What is a Next Generation STB?
Death of TV
