VR is in all the headlines – but analytics is the key difference at IBC

If the first faltering steps of the internet protocol in the televisual industries were back in the year 2000, then IBC, the perennial trade show which has come to us, to be the thermometer of the industry, has come of age. In 2003 this show marked the arrival of the H.264 standard in silicon; while in 2004 this was the equivalent of a tiny tot off for its first days in kindergarten – so much to see and do. It was the year that Mediaroom stormed the barricades and stole away the tier 1 players for IPTV, but it was also the year that PVRs came to Europe, VoD began to be an IP trend and the Cinema began its…