May 2015 – At the Conections 2015 event in the San Francisco Bay Area in May, we had a chance to meet with Rovi to talk about their direction and progress on enhanced personalization control for the connected home and access to entertainment content. The shift is coming that the interfaces for devices is no…
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—The ability to deliver full 3-D audio greatly enhances the AV experience. Sunil Bharitkar from Dolby moderated this panel. Panelists were Sripal Mehta from Dolby, Roger Charlesworth from Charlesworth Media, and Philip Hilmes from Lab 126 and Amazon. Mehta opened with a short…
September 12, 2013, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Genevieve Bell, director of interactivity, described one view of the future that differs considerably from the clean, high-technology look of the commercials. The anthropologist is responsible for defining product directions and the possible technologies that can make them possible. Their efforts are to investigate the people and the…