The Faultline Podcast

In this conversation, Tommy Flanagan guests on the Accedo Playback Podcast, alongside the company's VP of North America, Mrugesh Desai, to cover key themes such as the focus on profitability, innovative monetization strategies, the impact of AI and personalization, lessons from Netflix's success, device expansion strategies, and the ongoing fragmentation in the TV OS landscape. Mrugesh does an annoyingly stellar job of refusing to take Tommy's bait 🎣

In this special feature of the Faultline Podcast, James Cowdery (Dolby) and Thomas Kramer (MainConcept) join Tommy Flanagan (Faultline) to unpack how the new Dolby Digital Plus Pro Plugins, based on the SDK jointly developed by Dolby and MainConcept, can streamline production and boost audio quality for broadcast and streaming professionals directly in an open source FFmpeg workflow. Should we follow up with a sequel on the legal angle of this impressive technical collaboration? Let us know in the comments.

Mediagenix's Meryem Fawzi, Senior Business Consultant and Solution Architect, does a decent job of covering up the company's acquisition of Spideo hot off the press, as well as the inherited business from WideOrbit earlier this year. Mediagenix has its eye on North American expansion, and this episode is the exclusive place to hear about the company's broadcast management strategy leading up to IBC 2024.

"If 100 people design a horse, you get a camel." The illustrious Matt Stagg is a bag of network knowledge and insightful anecdotes. Formerly of WBD, BT Sport, EE and Orange, Stagg is now drilling deeper into bleeding edge technology buzzterms such as XR and AI - predicting some serious disruption to come over the next 3 to 4 years.

Michael Lantz, founder and CEO of TV app specialist Accedo, buries the hatchet with some contentious coverage on the pages of Faultline from years gone by. Fast forwarding to the present day - managed services, personalization, acquisitions, and the "new media" customer all come under the microscope in this exclusive interview.