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Sponsored by the School of Communications
in Association with the San Diego Computer Society
Digital Design SIG http://www.ultramedia.com/digital.html
San Diego State University
Room CG 333 map
and directions
Tuesday, March 27, 2001, 7:15pm
Admission
is Free!
Cinema, television, and Internet video, everything is about to change.
Thirteen cinemas in the U.S. and another 17 worldwide have installed digital projection. Digital cinema shows movies in theaters without film, and with better quality than what you would see at a conventional theater. Not only are theaters obsolete, every television set in America is, too. The television format most people are watching today is scheduled to be retired in five years (2006), totally replaced by digital and high definition television. In the San Diego area half a dozen ATSC digital television channels are already on the air. Moreover, the Internet enables anyone to be a video broadcaster, no license or transmitting tower required.
We face radical changes, perhaps as sweeping as the original introductions of television and cinema or the startling transition from Morse code to telephone. What does our digital future hold and what will the new technology do? What are the implications to video consumers, producers, and businesses?
Topics to be explored:
· Digital Cinema
· DTV and HDTV, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
· Internet networks: client-server, distributed, cache,
edge
· Cable headends and set-top boxes
· Satellite television
· Wireless video
· DVRs and PVRs
· Automatic television monitoring
· Metadata and DRM
· Video archive browsing and collaborative editing
· Lossy and lossless compression
· Virtual, 2.5D, and 3D video
· MPEG, DIVX, AVI, Quicktime, Real
· Scene decomposition and image understanding
· Surveillance, reconnaissance, and military applications
· Linux, Windows, and Macintosh
Robin Rowe is the CEO of MovieEditor.com, a San Diego company creating the future of motion picture technology. He writes a monthly column on video technology for Linux Journal, and has been published in more than a dozen magazines and technical journals. He is a frequent speaker at leading broadcast and technology conferences, such as NAB (the National Association of Broadcasters) and SMPTE (the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers).
Prior to helping found MovieEditor.com
in the fall of 1999 he was the chief technologist for video R&D
at a $3B Fortune 500 IT company. He is a former technical director
of news for NBC station WICD-TV and helped build the robotic studios
at NBC WMAQ-TV Chicago. An advanced client-server video editing
system he designed is in use at Manhattan's Time Warner NY1 (www.ny1.com)
and other TV stations in the U.S. and abroad. He has worked as
a research scientist in the commercial, military, and academic
sectors, and has taught computer science at two universities.
Updated Mar. 22nd, 2001