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  • The Bottleneck Always Moves
    Innovation in Practice

    The Bottleneck Always Moves

    When we went tapeless, the constraint didn’t disappear — it moved from the machine to the people instructing it. The intent for the show…

    2026-08-31
  • What’s Actually Earning Its Keep, AI and Innovation
    Innovation in Practice

    What’s Actually Earning Its Keep, AI and Innovation

    Every new tool wants a seat on the crew bus. Here’s my honest scorecard of which ones have actually earned it — and which…

    2026-08-26
  • What the Demo Doesn’t Show You
    Industry Direction

    What the Demo Doesn’t Show You

    The cloud production demo always works. But the demo is climate-controlled — and live is not. The right questions start where the demo ends.

    2026-08-26
  • Is It a Real IP Facility? Wrong Question.
    Industry Direction

    Is It a Real IP Facility? Wrong Question.

    An engineer told me his overhauled plant “isn’t a real IP facility.” He was measuring it against a purity that doesn’t exist — and…

    2026-08-06
  • Industry Direction

    Live is the Moat

    Twelve years ago I asked how critical LIVE is to your content. The last twelve years didn’t just prove the point — they raised…

    2026-08-03
  • What Analog-to-Digital Taught Me About Every Transition Since
    Career & Leadership

    What Analog-to-Digital Taught Me About Every Transition Since

    The tape-to-file transition delivered the efficiency it promised — and quietly deleted a quality check nobody had ever written down. Whenever a new technology…

    2026-07-30
  • 20 years of fun at EVS
    Career & Leadership

    20 years of fun at EVS

    A look back at two decades helping build live production technology — from the earliest tapeless workflows to IPDirector, HD-XT, and Spotbox — at…

    2019-05-22
  • We’re On-The-Air… We don’t have time to worry about your gear!
    Industry Direction

    We’re On-The-Air… We don’t have time to worry about your gear!

    Live production doesn’t pause for a vendor’s excuses. A look at why reliability, not features or price, is what actually earns trust when the…

    2019-04-24
  • How critical is LIVE to your content
    Industry Direction

    How critical is LIVE to your content

    A 2014 look at why live content was already pulling ahead — World Cup streaming numbers, personalized replays, and user-generated content — the argument…

    2014-12-25
James Stellpflug

James Stellpflug

Live production technology, media workflows, and lessons from 35+ years keeping it on the air

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