June 17, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—A panel reviewed the issues and technologies for audio in Internet content. Sunil Bharitkar from Dolby moderated, with panelists including Tim Carroll from Linear Acoustics on Skype, Jeffery Reidmiler from Dolby, Robert Fisher from Warner Bros. and Phil Hilmes from Amazon Lab126. Bharitkar opened…
June 17, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment in the Internet Age,Stanford, CA—A panel pondered the issues of consumer ownership of content. Pat Griffis from Dolby moderated the panel comprised of Danny Kaye from 20th Century Fox, Albert Koval from Ultraviolet, Richard Rutledge from Western Digital, and Colin Dixon from nScreen Media. Ownership and instantiation of the content…
June 17, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—A panel looked at the issues associated with multiple screen viewing. Colin Dixon from nScreen Media moderated the panel. [panelists included Mark Adams from Accedo, Chris Cukor from LG Electronics, Will Law from Akamai, and Jim Monroe from Net2TV. Dixon opened with comments about the…
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—Neil Hunt from Netflix talked about a bifurcation in trends that will affect all aspects of video content. Video is moving towards higher quality; bigger, brighter, and better, while also going to mobile devices, which are smaller, faster, and cheaper. Netflix is adding about100…
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—A panel considered resource allocation for developments in media delivery. Robert Kisor SMPTE past president moderated the panel. Panelists included Anne Aaron from Netflix, Wendy Aylsworth from Warner Bros., Bill Baggelaar, from Sony Pictures Entertainment, Pierre Larbier from Ateme, Paul Haskell from Harmonic, and Matthew…
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—Lars Borg from Adobe describes some of the differences between standard dynamic range and high dynamic range workflows. These new specifications calling for wider color gamut and higher dynamic range will impact content workflows. Current HD TV is based on BT 709 to provide…
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—Pat Griffis from SMPTE talked about the changes coming to TV and other video images. The advent of 4k and 8k sets will change more than the basic picture. An obvious development in the higher resolution TV sets is the increase in the number…
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—Scott Miller from Dolby talked about the changes in standards from gamma to perceptual quantizer. These changes a greater understanding of human vision and the continuing ability of technology to provide higher performance. Human vision must be considered as a system that includes physics–optics,…
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…
June 18, 2014, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age Conference, Stanford, CA—The issue of net neutrality and the FCC’s latest directives Pat Griffis from Dolby talked with Matthew Del Nero from the FCC about this hot topic. Then, Jim Burger from Thompson Coburn LLP and Jon Healey from the LA Times joined in the…