VSF VidTrans and SMPTE Advanced Motion 2006 Imaging Joint Conference - Los Angeles, California, USA

January 29 - February 1, 2006

Photos from the 2006 VidTrans Conference held January 29 to February 1, 2006

Presentations

Now available: VidTrans 06 Presentations

Conference Program

Monday, January 29, 2006

Networked Television
VSF Monday Morning Session

• Leveraging Local Loops -- Getting the Most From Your 270 Mbits
  John Mailhot, Aastra
  
  
• COP3R2 Interop Demonstration Introduction
  John Dale, Media Links
  
  
• NIST Project Update
  Pierre Costa, SBC Laboratories
  
  
• Understanding Podcasting
  Wes Simpson, Telecom Product Consulting
  
  
• Broadcaster Managed Transport
  Jeff McElreath, Turner Broadcasting
  
  

Tuesday, January 30, 2006

Accessing the Next Billion Eyeballs
SMPTE Tuesday Morning Session

• Moderator's Welcome
  Robert Bell, Executive Director, WTA/SSPI
  
  
• Ten Key Trends in Video/Cinema Distribution
  A tutorial on important changes in technology and operational practices that production executives need to understand in order to take advantage of new opportunities and protect investments in legacy systems.
  
  
• IP Changes Everything
  A roundtable panel of content providers and distribution technology vendors explores the impact of all-digital, IP-based networks on video and cinema distribution.
  
  
• From Broadcast to Narrowcast to Mobile: The New Markets
  A roundtable panel of content providers and service providers present brief case studies and discuss the opportunities created by the continuing fragmentation of audiences.
  
  

IP as it Relates to Professional Video
VSF Tuesday Afternoon Session

• MediaFLO: A Complete System for Video/Audio
  Kent Walker, Qualcomm
  
  
• IP Transport of Professional Video
  Bob Hildeman, Streambox
  
  
• Integrated Video, Voice, and Data Services Using an IP Protocol
  John C. Bellamy, Ipitek, Inc.
  
  
• Pro-MPEG Forum Code of Practice 3 Submission to the SMPTE
  Brad Gilmer/Carl Ostrom
  
  
• IPTV FEC Solutions
  Mary-Luc Champel, Thomson Grass Valley
  
  
• Expanding Video Transport Using the Public Internet
  Bart Schade, Path 1
  
  
• Experience with SDI Contribution Over IP Network
  Helge Stephansen & Tom Erik Krognes, T-VIPS AS/Media Network
  
  

Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Quality and Quantity for Professional Video
VSF Wednesday Morning Session

• Maintaining QoS of Video Over IP Services
  Chris Purdy, Tektronix, Inc.
  
  
• Next Generation Transport for Broadcasters
  Bob Collmus, Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
  
  
• COP3R2 Interop Preliminary Test Results
  John Dale, Media Links
  
  
• Measurements AHG Update
  Michael Bany, DVBLink, Inc.
  
  
• Building Video Communities-of-Interest
  Andrew Karlin, Savvis
  
  
• Vendor Panel Discussion - How you can be a better customer and at the same time have a better relationship with vendors
  Aastra - John Mailhot, Artel - Barry Flahive, Leitch - Kerry Wheeles, Video Products Group - Dave Herfert
  
  

Digital Workflow: Wrangling Bits in an IP Environment
SMPTE Wednesday Afternoon Session

• Workflow and Systems Integration in the Content Management Process
  John Wadle, OmniBus Systems
  
  
• File Based News and Content Acquisition
  Rick Young, Pathfire
  
  
• The State of the Art: Advances in software, storage and networking for Digital Workflow
  Mark Kapczynski, MESoft, Inc.
  
  
• Forever Changed: IT and IP for Video and New Challenges of Triple Play
  Danny Wilson, Pixelmetrix Corp
  
  
• Convergence - IPTV and SNMP
  Orest Holyk, Evertz
  
  
• 10 Gigabit Networking for Audio and Video Applications
  Stephen H. Lampen
  
  

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