April 2016 – NAB 2016 was the first big public announcement and push for the new combination of Harmonic and their acquisition of Thomson Video Networks. The combined company presented their new unified vision for agile video delivery. This new push leverages the Harmonic expertise in the appliance marketplace and compression for traditional broadcast into…
October 10. 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—A panel of experts from standards organizations and industry considered the issues of matching audio with the emerging 4k and 8k displays. Fred Willard from Univision moderated the panel, and panelists were Skip Pizzi from NAB, Robert Blerdt from Fraunhofer, Jeff Riedmiller from Dolby, Tim Carrol from…
June 18, 2014, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age Conference, Stanford, CA—A panel considered the trends and implications for broadcast as over the top and cable change the shape of network TV. Jim Burger from Thompson Coburn LLP moderated the panel, with panel members Mark Aiken form Sinclair Broadcast, Michael Bergman from the Consumer…
April 6, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—A panel moderated by Tom Scott from OnStream Media considered the issues for more immersive audio. Panel members included Jeff Levison from Iosono, Stuart Bowling from Dolby Labs, Wilfried Van Baelen from Auro Technologies, John Kellogg from DTS, and Kimio Hamasaki from NHK. The audio industry has…
November 2, 2011, International Game Innovation Conference, Orange, CA–Susan Bonds from 42 Entertainment talked about gameplay, participation, and storylines in her keynote talk. The world of entertainment is changing as seen in alternate reality games. Here, the participants are changing their expectations of boundaries. They are changing consumption patterns and increasing group participation in these…
So where will television be in 2020? I posed the question last week at a panel I led during NAB with execs from DreamWorks, Sony Electronics, Starz, Nielsen and Technicolor. Of course, nobody really knows what TV will look like in two years, let alone most of a decade. But the panel took some educated…
March 1, 2011 – San Jose, CA – At the Over The Top conference, 9×9 Corporation (www.9×9.tv) showed their new reduced control interface for viewing OTT content. The interface is targeted towards, mobile and game console viewing of web content where full keyboards and mouse access to do the selection of channels is not very…