iPM at IBC..
A photo of a canal and bicycle, the imaginative and pre-watershed friendly way to illustrate a post about Amsterdam.
Amsterdam is the host city for IBC 2008, a conference showcasing broadcast technology, that apparently attracts over 40,000 visitors. On Friday I delivered a short presentation about iPM and the stories our .
After the talk I did take a couple of hours to tour round the conference floor. These things are always compared to football pitches, but I was much smaller the last time I played football, so lets just say it was very big and I was very tired, with a thumping headache by the time I passed the n'th booth with an epilepsy inducing giant promotional plasma screen display.
The exhibition floor was dominated by companies promoting new bits of TV wizardry. We had (see the pimples, on the pimples of your favourite stars), High Frame-rate TV from and for those of you who want to be able to see everyone's bad side. Unfortunately none of these important, but highly visual, breakthroughs translate into radio very well (for those of you listening in black and white etc.) so it was with some pleasure that I stumbled upon a booth promoting a new kind of microphone that may, just may change the way footballers behave. Thanks to a few spare 3.5mm cables and the line-in socket on my portable recorder you can hear the newfangled super-giant-microphone in action below:
As a footnote, the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones was in Amsterdam too finding out what we can learn from Dutch high-speed fibre, you can read about that here. Perhaps the next time we ask you to test your broadband speed the results will be more encouraging
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