Ian Nock

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A good week now being finished off by producing some test files... 6 hours ago

"Is 8K Dear or Alive?" – webinar Thu 9 Feb at 14:00 BST; Speakers include @IanNock of @FairmileWest and Prashant Chothani @tigerchothani of @Travelxp. Moderator will be Keran Boyd. ibc.org/webinars/webin… Retweeted by Ian Nock 11 hours ago

Malicious use of Microsoft OneNote documents on the rise realworldit.uk/2023/02/03/mal… 12 hours ago

macOS Ventura Bug Spits Out Perpetual ‘Background Items Added’ Notifications at Login, Here’s a Potential Fix realworldit.uk/2023/02/03/mac… 12 hours ago

How to install ChromeOS Flex on an old laptop realworldit.uk/2023/02/03/how… 12 hours ago

Samsung’s new Galaxy S23 Ultra arrives with a 200-megapixel camera realworldit.uk/2023/02/03/sam… 12 hours ago

Samsung has the MacBook Pro in its sights with the $2,400 Galaxy Book 3 Ultra realworldit.uk/2023/02/03/sam… 12 hours ago

What! another PM? twitter.com/Number10cat/st… 1 day ago

Looks like I need to get my stethoscope out.... Looking forward to next week twitter.com/IBCShow/status… 1 day ago

Netgem to withdraw from receiver market broadbandtvnews.com/2023/02/01/net… Retweeted by Ian Nock 2 days ago

Published by 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.