Paul Kagan wins the prize for best event title: The QAM Before the Storm. This is the second year for this mini-show, which is coordinated through the SCTE’s Emerging Technologies conference in January. Panels include:
- STRIKE UP THE BANDWIDTH: The Business Case For Advanced Technology.
- SEAMLESS STREAMING: The Future Of Switched Digital Video.
- LIVING ON THE EDGE (QAM): The Shape of Things To Come.
- BED, BANDWIDTH & BEYOND: The Future of Targeted Television.
It’s easy to lose track of January industry events in the inevitable post-CES fatigue, but the SCTE show (including the Kagan subsidiary) tends to be a good one for content. Last year the top technologies of discussion were IP video, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and digital rights management (DRM).
[...] not least of all because of the recent Kagan conference, “QAM Before the Storm”. (Still my favorite name for an event ever…) Some at the Kagan conference were predicting the near-term end of edge QAM devices given the [...]