I’m not going to sell you DMF. We can’t. Nobody really can yet.
But I’ve been on SMPTE Standards Committees for 28 years. I was there when SDI was the ‘future of broadcast’ in 1991. I deployed first-generation equipment at CBC Toronto.
I’ve watched this pattern repeat with HD, with IP, and now with DMF.
Here’s what 35 years taught me: The technology changes, but the hype pattern doesn’t.
Some vendors may be saying that DMF is production-ready. It’s not. Not for most of you. Not yet.
This white paper tells you where it actually is, who’s really deploying it, and whether you should care right now.
– Paul Briscoe, Chief Architect, TAG Video Systems
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That's exactly why you should read it. Our Chief Architect has 28 years on SMPTE Standards Committees and has been through every major broadcast transition since SDI. This is a pattern recognition and trend forecast document, not a sales pitch.
Not at all. We think DMF is genuinely promising and will matter for the industry. We're just honest about where it is right now (early-stage). The technology will mature. Most organizations can let early adopters prove it out first.
t depends on your definition of "ready" and risk tolerance. CBC is deploying aspects for the 2026 Winter Olympics. That's proof-of-concept scale. Industry-wide maturity with solved integration challenges and established best practices? Likely 2027-2028 for most use cases. The paper breaks down the timeline framework.
Organizations planning major infrastructure changes in 2026, those with specific operational pain that DMF specifically solves, and those with engineering capacity to work through early-stage integration challenges. For most others, staying informed while waiting for maturity is the right strategy.
ST 2110 is the foundation. DMF builds on it, it doesn't replace it. The paper explains the relationship and what "backward compatibility" actually means in practical terms. Your 2110 infrastructure isn't obsolete, it's the prerequisite.