At the DVB Project’s IBC press conference this week, chairman Philip Laven opened proceedings by stating, “Broadcast ain’t dead,” and he proceeded to describe a scenario where they were most truly dead and buried. He said that HEVC was coming to the aid of broadcasters, perhaps he has not seen the HEVC Advance royalties? And went on to describe a phased approach to UHD, firstly HEVC 4K at 60 frames per second, and then onwards to full UHD. He maintained that delivery via broadcast was still much cheaper than OTT delivery. All he would admit to was that there were, “Many technical issues still to be resolved, before UHD phase two could be implemented.” What he really means is that…