Update from the Standards Vice President

Bruce Devlin

Welcome to 2020, the second decade of the new millennium. I’m writing this editorial after the successful completion of the SMPTE Annual Technical Conference in October 2019, and it strikes me that this new year holds many reasons to be optimistic about the future of professional media. I know that many will be nervous that we are seeing a bigger disruption in both technology and business models than at any time in the past. We are also seeing a dramatic change in the way consumers consume media. I know that a large company size is no longer synonymous with business success (although it often helps). I also know that in many, many conversations that I have had with content companies, distribution companies, equipment and service providers as well as trade bodies and other associations, no one feels that they can do a one-stop-shop solution any more. Almost everyone I talked to ranked some kind of stability second only to market dominance.

Print ISSN
Electronic ISSN
2160-2492
Published
2020-01
Content type
Opinion
DOI
10.5594/JMI.2019.2957686
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