THE TECH VENDORS
DAVID DAVIES: To what extent do you think the pandemic era has initiated a new stage in hybrid and remote production – and in what ways has this impacted upon your business?
John O’Shaughnessy, head of technology operations, Dock10
JEREMY MILLER: For us it has involved a big move to evolve our equipment in order to deal with a lot of factors, including the reduction of staff on-site and the increased remote capabilities people were asking for, [and how they related to] bandwidth capabilities. As a result, we have added mobile internet capability and gateway modules to our mobile transmitters that allow people to turn them into a well-blended internet connection in the field. In general, there is a drive for people to do more in the field with less. And I believe [the pandemic] did help to nudge people along to adopt more IP-based workflows. GUILHEM KRIER: The last few years have been really interesting. It’s true that three years ago, some of the events continued to happen, but also that people were either not allowed to go to them or were unable to. So it moved from a situation where people attended events and they were shot and broadcast as well, to one where there was a need to film everything that moves and transmit it, basically – whether it be in the corporate world, live events or whatever. People did not want to miss the opportunity to create and transmit content as it was so strongly in-demand. From our perspective, we sold a lot of PTZ cameras and camcorders. People found it quite easy because the cameras are already supporting
Guilhem Krier, head of business development EMEA, Panasonic Business Europe
Jeremy Miller, global director of technical account management, Dejero
THE MODERATOR
“THERE IS A DRIVE FOR PEOPLETO DO MORE IN THE FIELDWITH LESS”
David Davies, freelance journalist
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