VidTrans 99
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Now available: VidTrans 99 PresentationsConference Program
Sunday, 3 October 1999 |
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| 7:00 - 9:30 PM |
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Welcome Reception |
Monday, 4 October 1999 |
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| 8:00 |
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Call to Order & Announcements Matt Peterson, President, SWI |
| 8:05 |
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Introduction of VSF board, officers, members & VidTranS exhibitors Matt Peterson, President, SWI |
| 8:15 |
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Welcome Brendan Smith, President, Video Services Forum |
| 8:20 |
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1A-1 Keynote Address Kevin Maney, Technology Columnist, USA Today |
| 9:10 |
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1A-2 Component Transport: Venue to Home Merrick Ackermans, Dir. of Strategic Broadcast Technology, Turner Entertainment Networks |
| 9:55 |
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Break |
| 10:15 |
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1A-3 Industry Perspective - Government Stephen W. Long, National Imagery & Mapping Agency (NIMA) |
| 10:55 |
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1A-4 Making ATM Network Content Transport Work Yigal Abram, Marketing Manager-North America, ECI Telecom |
| 11:35 |
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1A-5 Using Internet as a Video Transport Mechanism: A Store-and-Forward Solution Mike Piper, Director of Product Marketing, Telestream, Inc. |
| 12:15 |
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Conference Lunch |
| 1:30 |
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1P-1 User Panel: Content Distribution Jim Hopkins, Vice President, FOX Digital Frank O'Connor, Chief Engineer, Independent Television News Brent Stranathan, Vice President, CBS Television Network Richard Wolf, Vice President, ABC Television Network |
| 3:00 |
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Break |
| 3:15 |
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1P-2 Piecing Together Standards to Support Transport of Digital Television Content Merrill Weiss, Senior Partner, Merrill Weiss Group |
| 4:00 |
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Announcements & Next Day Review |
| 4:10 |
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Adjourn |
| 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM |
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Poster Sessions: Video Services Forum Ad Hoc Groups |
| 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
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Exhibit Hours |
| 8:00 PM - 9:35 PM |
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HDTV Transport Demonstration - NBC's Tonight Show |
Tuesday, 5 October 1999 |
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| 8:00 |
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Call to Order & Announcements Matt Peterson, President, SWI |
| 8:05 |
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2A-1 Keynote Address Jerry Pierce, Vice President, Universal Studios |
| 8:55 |
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2A-2 The Message is the Medium: Branding the New World Video Network Woody Lewis, Media Solutions Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc. |
| 9:35 |
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2A-3 Station Consolidation: Implications for Transport Brad Gilmer, President, Gilmer & Associates, Inc. |
| 10:15 |
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Break |
| 10:30 |
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2A-4 User Panel: Content Creation Roberta Margolis, (moderator), President, Runway, Inc. Scott Carleton, Vice President, Nomad Editing Steven B. Cohen, Vice President, Sony Pictures Tony Lockard, Plosive, Inc. Byron Wagner, CEO, Metawire |
| 12:15 |
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Conference Lunch |
| 2:15 |
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2P-1 MAN/WAN Connections to Facility Video LANs of the Future Ed Hobson, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Omneon Video Networks |
| 3:00 |
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2P-2 Telco TV Content Redistribution Solution Marc Morin, Chief Technology Officer, PixStream, Inc. |
| 3:45 |
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2P-3 Effects of Jitter on 259M Uncompressed Transmission, William C. Philipson, Senior Design Engineer, Video Products Group |
| 4:30 |
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Announcements & Next Day Review Matt Peterson, President, SWI |
| 4:40 |
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Adjourn |
| Noon - 5:00 PM |
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Exhibit Hours |
| 7:00 - 9:30 |
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E-Cinema Experience - Universal Studios |
Wednesday, 6 October 1999 |
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| 8:00 |
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Call to Order & Announcements Matt Peterson, President, SWI |
| 8:05 |
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3A-1 Keynote Address Fred Angelopoulos, CEO, Pulse Entertainment |
| 9:15 |
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3A-2 DWDM - Coincidence or Fate Mike Riley, Director of Product Marketing, Artel Video Systems, Inc. |
| 10:00 |
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Break |
| 10:15 |
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3A-3 New Methods for Combining Signals onto a Single Fiber to Supplant DWDM Tom Myers, Director, Product Planning & Development, SilkRoad, Inc. |
| 11:00 |
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Closing |
| Noon |
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Adjourn |
| 9 AM - 12 PM |
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Exhibit Hours |
