SMPTE Conference Program
Peter D. Symes
The Conference will be held at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco
on FRIDAY February 10 and SATURDAY February 11.
It will be PRECEEDED by an full day Seminar on
Video Transport and Storage on THURSDAY February 9.
Contact SMPTE Headquarters for full details and registration
for conference and/or seminar.
Tel: (914) 761-1100 Fax: (914) 761-3115
SEMINAR PROGRAM 2/9/95
Grand Ballroom
8:30 Introduction[s] -- Charles A. Poynton (Chair)
9:15 TCP/IP -- Don Hoffman (Sun)
10:00 Break
10:30 ATM -- Mayer Schwartz (Tek)
11:15 Digital Cable -- Richard Prodan (Cable Labs)
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Studio Packet Video -- Peter Dare (Sony)
2:15 Video Disks -- Kumar Screekanti (Micropolis)
3:00 Break
3:30 Video Servers -- Al Kovalik (Hewlett-Packard)
4:15 Wrap-up/Q&A -- All
5:00 Close
CONFERENCE TECHNICAL PROGRAM
Grand Ballroom
Conference Theme: New Foundations for Video Technology
Friday Morning, February 10
TRANSPORT AND COMPRESSION
Session Chair: Al Kovalick, Hewlett Packard Co.
7:45
Opening Film
8:00
Editorial Vice-President's Opening Address:
Peter A. Dare, Sony Electronics, Inc., San Jose, Calif.
8:20
Program Chairmen's Introductions:
Peter D. Symes, Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, Calif.;
and Charles A. Poynton, Sun Microsystems, Toronto, Ont., Canada
8:30
1. Video: For Here or To Go?
David J. Bancroft, BTS-Broadcast Television Systems GmbH
Griesheim, Germany
9:00
2. A Proposal for Compatibly Improving the Scrambling of SMPTE 259
David L. Hershberger, The Grass Valley Group, Inc.,
Grass Valley, Calif.
9:30
3. The Art of Video Encoding - Optimizing MPEG Video Compression
Through Human Assist Methods
Mauro Bonomi, Minerva Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, Calif.
10:00
4. Switching Facilities in MPEG-2: Necessary But Not Sufficient
S. Merrill Weiss, Consultant, Edison, N.J.
10:30
5. Productizing Compression - How to Make MPEG-2 Work in the
Real World
Robin Wilson, DIVICOM, Milpitas, Calif.
11:00
6. Video Compression: The Need for Testing
Guy Beakley, StellaCom, Inc., Arlington, Va.
11:30
7. An Innovative Approach to MPEG Mastering
Andrew D. Rosen, California Video Center, Los Angeles, Calif.
12:00
Get-Together Luncheon
California East and West
Guest Speaker: Philip Dodds, Executive Director,
Interactive Multimedia Association
Friday Afternoon
HDTV
Session Chair: Robert Hopkins, ATSC
1:45
Opening Film
2:00
8. The SMPTE D-6 Digital Recording Format
Jurgen R. Heitmann, BTS-Broadcast Television Systems GmbH,
Darmstadt, Germany
2:30
9. 1280 x 720 Progressive - A Reevaluation
William C. Miller, Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., New York, N.Y.
Paper #10 Withdrawn
3:00
11. The Transport Layer of the Grand Alliance ATV System
Terrence R. Smith and Joel W. Zdepski,
David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, N.J.
3:30
12. Lillehammer '94 in High Definition
Michel Oudin and Jean-Pierre Lartigue,
Vision 1250, Brussels, Belgium
4:00
13. Wide-Color Gamut System
Ryoichi Yajima, Shinichi Sakaida, and Junji Kumada,
Japan Broadcast Corp. (NHK), Tokyo, Japan; and
Masaru Kanazawa, NHK Engineering Services, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
4:30
14. Report on the Technical Tests of the Cinema of the Future
Richard A. Mizer, Pacific Bell, San Ramon, Calif.
Saturday Morning, February 11
VIDEO FUNDAMENTALS
Session Chair: John Streets, Merlin Engineering Works
8:15
Opening Film
8:30
15. Designing and Evaluating a User Interface
Stephen Kilisky, Abekas Video Systems, Redwood City, Calif.
9:00
16. Digital to Analog Conversion - Data and Filter Requirements
Dan Baker and David Fibush, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, Ore.
9:30
17. A Proposal for Open Architecture Digital Communication Systems
Based on Standard Media Publishing Apertures
Craig J. Birkmaier, PCUBED, Gainesville, Fla.
10:00
18. A Digital Editing Suite in an Analog Environment
Reinhard E. Wagner,
M.A.P. GmbH TV and Video Post-Production, Cologne, Germany
10:30
19. Mastery Learning as a Foundation for Technical Training
Dana Martin-Newman, California State University, Hayward, Calif.; and
Charles Hintz, KTVU, Oakland, Calif.
11:00
20. A Guided Tour of Colour Space
Charles A. Poynton, Sun Microsystems Computer Corp.,
Toronto, Ont., Canada
Saturday Afternoon
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Session Chair: David Fibush, Tektronix, Inc.
1:15
Opening Film
1:30
21. Are RAIDs Redundant
Paul Turner, Abekas Video Systems, Redwood City, Calif.
2:00
22. Noncompressed NTSC Digital Video Disk Recorder
T. Matsui, T Sekiguchi, and T. Katagiri,
Video Technology Development Center, NEC Corp., Kanagawa, Japan
2:30
23. MPEG Compression of High Frame Rate Progressively Scanned Images
Gary Demos, DemoGraFX, Santa Monica, Calif.
3:00
24. Simple Scalable Video Compression Using 3-D Subband Coding
William F. Glenn, John Marcinka, Robert Shein,
Communications Technology Center, Florida Atlantic University,
Boca Raton, Fla.
3:30
25. ISDB and Its Transmission System
Takeshi Kimura, Naoki Kawai, and Kouji Ohsaki,
NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan
4:00
26. Digital Acquisition Without Compromise - The Missing Link
Peter Owen, Quantel, Ltd., Berkshire, England
4:30
27. New Foundations for Video Technology: Which Ones Do We Build On
and Why?
C. Robert Paulson, OmniMedia Communication, Westborough, Mass.