The Importance of Standards [Report from the Standards Vice President]
As I write this I am on my way home from the Hollywood Post Alliance 2015 Tech Retreat. At this conference there were numerous papers and panel discussions related to the latest trends in our industry. I remarked that in many of the sessions I heard presenters say, “For this to really take hold we need standards for …”. For mature technologies, these standards (mostly SMPTE standards) are in place and are widely deployed in vendors' equipment and in content creators' workflows. However, as we move into the ‘brave new world’ of moving content over IT infrastructures within production and post-production facilities, and ultimately moving content directly to content consumers “over the top (OTT),” there are many areas where standards do not exist yet and so many of the solutions being deployed are proprietary and are not interoperable.
- Print ISSN
- 1545-0279
- Electronic ISSN
- 2160-2492
- Published
- 2015-03
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/j18509