April 8, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—Some film experts demonstrated some movie clips and explained why a film or digital style worked for that shot. Carol Littleton from Industrial Light and Magic showed the chase scene from “ET” where the boys and ET eventually fly away from the authorities. In ’82 when this…
April 23, 2013, IEEE CE Society, Mountain View, CA—Perry Goldstein from Marshall Electronics talked about the evolution of audio and video in the digital age at the local society meeting. The talk featured a historical overview of consumer media products and some thoughts on their future. After working in various segments of the consumer A-V…
March 19, 2013, OTTCon, Santa Clara, CA– Drew Baldwin from TubeFilter held a fireside chat with Lance Sloan from Warner Bros. The main topics included the future of entertainment programming, what is working in digital distribution and what isn’t, the impact of different digital platforms, and future prospects for over-the-top and other platforms. So how…
September 2012, in a product briefing with Maxim, we discussed their new all digital Class D amplifier that is targeted at mobile, medical, industrial and automotive infotainment marketplaces. Unlike the traditional analog input Class D audio amplifiers, the digital input design can take the data stream directly from the controllers and automatically detects the input…
July 2012 – The 42nd annual Comic-Con event in San Diego continues to be the anchor point for geekdom’s ruling of the entertainment world was bigger than ever. The show has shifted the past few years from traditional graphic novels & art to film and now is dominated by the small screen & smaller mobile…
July 20, 2011 – San Diego, CA – Before the start of the San Diego Comic-Con, ICV2 held its annual business conference. The session opened with a presentation by ICV2 founder Milton Griepp. Milton presented the trends in comics, graphics novels and the industry as a whole. Milton Griepp Opens ICV2 The summary of…
For over 30 years, John Meyer and his company have been designing and manufacturing high perfomance speaker systems for live performance venues of all sizes. These speakers and associated driver electronics, have been used in live theaters small to large, and stadiums as the baseline of measurement for quality sound. These systems have now been…
October 27, 2010, digital media conference, San Francisco—in a morning keynote, Vivi Zigler, president of digital entertainment at NBC described the convergence of many disparate pieces into a new television system. TV people are moving towards digital production causing lots of change with much more change to come. There is ongoing tension between creative and…
August 17, 2010, San Jose, CA, the Digital Signage Conference looked at commercial use displays to the eyes of the flat-panel display and information technology industries. The panel was moderated by Paul Semenza, senior vice president of Display Search, and comprised of Rick Albert, vice president for flat panel displays at Panasonic solutions company, Jeff…
Connections: the Digital Living Conference, Santa Clara, CA—a panel looked at on-going efforts to implement the connected consumer. The moderator, Kurt Scherf, vp at Parks Associates, started by asking about panelists efforts at implementing lockers. Kanaan Jemili, VP at Divx, stated that work is progressing on software, but they need to address many platforms to…