Tucked out of the way, not in its usual hall, Dolby was using IBC 2023 to show customers and leads how the company is assembling more and more of a video production and distribution workflow, on the back of recent acquisitions. However, attempts to pry into Dolby’s position in the codec sector were for naught. Faultline had gone into IBC expecting to see and hear more interest in AV1, but the alternative codec is absent from most vendors’ customer enquiries and viewed skeptically. Given Dolby’s now central role in the codec landscape, there were many stones to turn over at IBC, but Dan Coffey, Senior Product Manager at Dolby Labs, confirmed that the Hybrik wing is not currently offering AV1.…