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About Ben Schwarz

Ben is a recognised international thought leader in sustainability and converging media. After ten years in IT, he became CTO of a music start-up. During the next ten years at Orange, he researched and launched media services, including IPTV. Since 2008, Ben has been independent consulting on strategy, business, communications and technology. He has penned over a dozen in-depth industry white papers and contributed to several blogs. Ben has worked within trade organisations since 2015, the most recent of which is Greening of Streaming. He lives in Paris.

A Non-Geek’s Guide to Real-Time AI Video Enhancement

October 24, 2025 10.15 Europe/London By Ben Schwarz

Jon’s Journey from Sprites to Streams

Filed Under: Newsline Edited: 30 October 2025 12:36

Modest but encouraging sustainability messaging at ANGA COM

June 11, 2024 10.24 Europe/London By Ben Schwarz

This year, I was honoured to moderate three panels at the German trade fair ANGA COM on AI, Wi-Fi, and, yes, of course, sustainability. In between, I wandered the two […]

Filed Under: Feature, Featured Left Edited: 11 June 2024 15:33

Ben Schwarz: Oh so maybe Android isn’t the answer to all TV’s woes after all

February 1, 2013 08.06 Europe/London By Ben Schwarz

I was one of the first believers in Android as a cure to many TV woes. In early 2009, I predicted “… it’s always been a question of when, and […]

Filed Under: Columns, Speaker's Corner Edited: 1 February 2013 18:46

Ben Schwarz: IPTV is dead – long live OTTIPTV

April 12, 2012 16.09 Europe/London By Ben Schwarz

I’m almost three weeks late for my write-up of this year’s IP&TV World Forum, so I started this piece for my blog in a rush with a big sense of […]

Filed Under: Speaker's Corner Edited: 15 April 2012 22:16

New world for CAS and DRM companies

October 22, 2010 09.59 Europe/London By Ben Schwarz

It has always been a mystery to me why security vendors like Verimatrix always seem to punch above their weight in the pay-TV business, writes Ben Schwarz. If you look […]

Filed Under: Speaker's Corner Edited: 22 October 2010 09:59

Navigation yes, TV technology no

June 10, 2010 18.08 Europe/London By Ben Schwarz

The online pay-TV industry does need search to navigate content and advertising to enable business models but please Google, not yet another TV technology.

Filed Under: Speaker's Corner Tagged With: Google TV Edited: 11 June 2010 22:20

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