Taking a trip to Montreux this week at the generosity of Nagra, despite being blissfully unaware of the nature of the Montreux Jazz Festival, planned as the entertainment. Over the course of a very long day we saw many parallels between the creation of this wonderful festival and Nagra itself. For a start the Jazz Festival is no longer about Jazz, in the same way that Nagra is no longer about Conditional Access. Instead both have a wider remit. Interestingly the Jazz festival still calls itself a Jazz Festival in much the same was that Nagra still goes on about its core strength, protecting content revenues, while brazenly offering very different things which may better define its future. Patti Smith…