Nick, FC and digital video go together very well.
Here is the outline of a recent high tech conference where they talk about HDTV.
SGI is very involved here. Philips also AVID. It will be interesting to see how FC comes into play. Any chance for FC in this area..........
The Role of Local Storage and Presentation to Enable Data Broadcasts with Cached
Interactivity, Craig J. Birkmaier, Pcube Labs, Gainesville, Fla.
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33rd SMPTE Advanced Motion Imaging
Conference
February 25-27, 1999
Omni Rosen Hotel, Orlando, FL
The Society's 33rd Advanced Motion Imaging Conference will be held at the Omni Rosen Hotel on
February 25-27, 1999. Following the theme Innovation, Implementation, and Operation, The
Challenges of Change this Orlando, Fla. event is made up of four program sessions headed by
Clyde D. Smith, Speer Worldwide Digital. The event will conclude with an all day seminar on
Saturday organized by Oliver Peters of Century III Productions at Universal Studios, Florida. David
Walters, Snell & Wilcox, Inc., and Albert LeBoeuf, Lockheed Martin, have been appointed General
Arrangements co-chairs for the event.
Technical Program
Thurday-Friday, February 25-26, 1999
"Content Acquisition," chaired by Stephen Flanagan, Post Newsweek, and Duane Carter, USA,
Inc., will begin conference activities on Thursday morning, October 25. Marcos Obadia, Discovery
International, and Mark Rogers, Tektronix, Inc., will chair Thursday afternoon's "Content Production
and Post-Production" session. Friday's first session is titled "System Integration," chaired by Jack
Winter, TV-28, and Jim Biggers, Post Newsweek. "Content Distribution," chaired by Doug Lung,
Telemundo, and Rick Ackerman, Turner Entertainment, will close out the technical program.
All Day Seminar
Saturday, February 27, 1999
The Seminar, to be held on Saturday, February 27th, is entitled Systems Interfaces, Networking
and Connectivity. These interfaces and networks form a significant part of the infrastructure
necessary to implement a DTV system. A through understanding of the rapid developments in these
areas is an essential prerequisite to systems design and deployment.
The seminar is organized into three sessions Systems Interfaces, Local Area Networking and Wide
Area Networking. In the Systems interface session topics scheduled to be covered include
DVB-ASI, SMPTE 292, SDTI, 1394 and many others. The local area networking session will
cover topics such as Fiber Channel and Gigabit Ethernet.
The Wide Area Networking session will cover satellite and terrestrial connectivity including HDTV
distribution via satellite, Terrestrial ATM, etc. The sessions are intended to convey a working
knowledge of the business issues as well as the technical issues underlying the selection and the
process of using these technologies.
Technical Program Schedule
Thursday, Morning
February 25th
Session: Content Acquisition
Session Chair: Stephen P. Flanagan, Post Newsweek
Session Co-Chair: Duane Carter, USA, Inc.
The LDK2000 Multistandard Camera and the Evolution to DTV, Jan van Rooy, Philips
Digital Video Systems, LoB Cameras, Breda, The Netherlands
Beyond Standard Resolution and HDTV to Handling Film in a Real-Time Non-Linear
Fashion - What Does it Take to Make this Happen? Kirk A. Law, Silicon Graphics
Computer Systems, Mountain View, Calif.
Digital Film Imaging - The Next Steps, David J. Bancroft, Philips Digital Video Systems,
Reading, U.K.
DSNG: Getting the News Feed to the Studio, Barry Hobbs, NDS Americas, Inc., Newport
Beach, Calif.
800 MHz-Band OFDM UHF Link, R. Yajima, K.Takizawa, S. Morisawa, S. Moriyama, K.
Tsuchida, T. Izumi, and A. Nakamura, NHK, Tokyo, Japan
A SMPTE-292 HDTV Video Network Access Unit with ATM/OC-48c SONET Transport,
Philip Crosby, Tektronix, Beaverton, Oreg.
Japan News Exchange System (JNEX), S. Fukui, S. Shibuya, and S. Harada, Tokyo
Broadcasting System, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Thursday, Afternoon
February 25th
Session: Content Production & Post-Production
Session Chair: Marcos Obadia, Discovery International
Session Co-Chair: Mark Rogers, Tektronix, Inc.
Parallel Processing Solves the DTV Format Conversion Problem, Jed Deame, TeraNex, Inc.,
Orlando, Fla.
Where's the Fabric, Seth Haberman, Montage Group, Ltd., New York, N.Y.
The Use of Intranet and Internet Based Tools for Integrating Distributed and Parallel Video
Production Processes, Ed McDermid, Avid Technology, Tewksbury, Mass.
Formats Variety and Interoperability - Degradation of Picture Quality and Consequences for
Future Networked Television Production, Rheinhard Knoer, IRT, Institut fuer
Rundfunktechnik GmbH, Munich, Germany
Editing in the Modern Shared-Storage Environment: Specific Costs, Specific Benefits, Chris
J. Stakutis, Mercury Computer Systems, Chelmsford, Mass.
Universal Format Conversion Architecture for Simultaneous Video and Computer-Graphics
Scaling for DTV Post-Production Applications, Panasonic, AVC American Labs, Burlington,
N.J.
Applying SMPTE Metadata in Software Systems, Oliver Morgan, Avid Technology, Inc.,
Tewksbury, Mass.
Friday, Morning
February 26th
Session: Systems Integration
Session Chair: Jack Winter, TV-28
Session Co-Chair: Jim Biggers, Post Newsweek
Designing and Implementing a Progressive Scan HDTV Editing and Air Switching Facility,
Chris Bauer, ABC and John Luff, Synergistic Technologies, Inc., Canonsburg, Pa.
The Emerging Roles of Advanced Motion Imagery in the US Department of Defense,
Stephen Long, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, Reston, Va.
The New Storage Paradigm for Multichannel Video Transmission, John Pittas, SeaChange
International, Maryland, Mass.
The Growing Needs of Automated Systems for Control and Management, Stephane Savard,
Planon Telexpertise, Inc., Montreal, Que., Canada
Issues in Multi-Facility Broadcasting, John Reuter, Odetics Broadcast, Anaheim, Calif.
Interconnectivity in the DTV Era: The Emergence of SDTI, Alain Legault and Janet Matey,
Matrox Video Products Group, Dorval, Que., Canada
HDTV - The Limit of Copper Cable?, Stephen H. Lampen, Belden Wire & Cable Co.,
Richmond, Ind.
The Connection Guide for HDTV, Fred Della Iacona, Kings Electronics Co., Inc., Rock Hill,
S. C.
The Role of Local Storage and Presentation to Enable Data Broadcasts with Cached
Interactivity, Craig J. Birkmaier, Pcube Labs, Gainesville, Fla.
Friday, Afternoon
February 26th
Session: Content Distribution
Session Chair: Doug Lung, Telemundo
Session Co-Chair: Rick Ackerman, Turner Entertainment
Content Distribution in a Networked World, Al Kovalick and Dawn Moore,
Hewlett-Packard Co., Santa Clara, Calif.
NAB IP Over MPEG2, Beth Erez, Har-Hotzum, Jerusalem, Israel
Principles, Benefits, and Applications of Variable Bit Rate Coding for Digital Video
Broadcasting, Si Jun Huang, Scientific Atlanta, Inc., Norcross, Ga.
Statistical Multiplexing with Look-Ahead Using MPEG-2 Video Encoding, L. Boroczky, A.
Y. Ngai and E. F. Westermann, , IBM Research, Digital Video Products Group, Endicott,
N.Y.
Seamless Splicing for MPEG-2 Transport Stream Video Servers, C. Ward, C. Pecota, G.
Huges and X. Lee, Sarnoff Corp., Princeton, N.J.
TBD, Anthony Magliocco, ECI Telecom, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif.
CDM Terrestrial Broadcasting Based on OFDM, Pheeradej NA NAN and Masao
NAKAGAWA, Keio University, Department of Electrical Engineering., NAKAGAWA
Laboratory, Kanagawa, Japan
How Digital Broadcasting and Interactive Technologies are Changing the Future of Electronic
Commerce Over Broadcasting Networks, Gadi Tirosh, NDS, Ltd., Jerusalem, Israel
Protecting Content in the Digital Home, Beth Erez, Har-Hotzum, Jerusalem, Israel
Advance Registration and Hotel Accommodations
Registering in advance is recommended to save $100.00 off the on-site fee. The Conference
Registration Form must be received at Headquarters by January 15, 1999.
To reserve a room at the Omni Rosen Hotel, use the Hotel Reservation Form. . Send the form
directly to the hotel by the deadline shown on the form. Reservations received after the deadline are
subject to availability.
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