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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.
July 3, 2019July 3, 2019 Ian Nock

NAB Retrospective

March 22, 2019July 3, 2019 Ian Nock

Roundtable: Defining What Premium Content Is

March 22, 2019March 22, 2019 Ian Nock

OTT Better Than Broadcast

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 Ian Nock

New Year (UHD) Resolution

January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 Ian Nock

Connected TV Summit 2019: What our Connies judges are predicting for TV

January 25, 2019January 28, 2019 Ian Nock

Streaming Forum 2019: Is OTT better than broadcast?

October 9, 2018January 28, 2019 Ian Nock

Redefining the visual experience – advances in UHD & HDR at the Sky Technical Summit

October 2, 2018October 2, 2018 Ian Nock

Ultra HD HDR Interoperability and the World Cup

September 10, 2018 Ian Nock

Ultra HD Forum at the Sky Tech Summit 2018 and IBC2018

September 10, 2018 Ian Nock

Fairmile West and IBC2018

Codec Wars Panel
May 31, 2018June 1, 2018 Ian Nock

Codec Wars

March 13, 2018June 1, 2018 Ian Nock

Next Generation STB Part Deux – Applications

January 25, 2018January 29, 2018 Ian Nock

CES2018 and TV Entertainment

January 10, 2018January 10, 2018 Ian Nock

HDR Format Phoney War (or how it is clearer than it looks)

November 21, 2017November 21, 2017 Ian Nock

What is TV? #WorldTVDay

November 14, 2017January 29, 2018 Ian Nock

Alphabet Soup – What we know about UHD interoperability from Plugfests

October 2, 2017June 1, 2018 Ian Nock

To go where no one has gone before

September 8, 2017June 1, 2018 Ian Nock

Looking forward to IBC2017 and back at NAB17

August 31, 2017June 1, 2018 Ian Nock

What is a Next Generation STB?

August 1, 2017June 1, 2018 Ian Nock

Death of TV

July 14, 2017 Ian Nock

Medium is not the service

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