August Meeting

Monday August 10, 2009
Refreshments 6:30 PM   Meeting Start 7:30 PM
Turner Techwood Campus - 1000 Building

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"Optimal Conversion of SD, Film, and International Programs to High Quality HD"

Presented by: John Shike, Vice President of Marketing and Channel Management at Snell

High Definition television can provide spectacular images for the viewer, but programs upconverted from standard definition digital or analog sources, pulled from the archives, converted from overseas 50Hz based material, or originally shot on film often fail to meet viewer's expectations. In fact, the increased picture resolution, larger picture size, and special characteristics of today's flat screen LCD and plasma displays as a whole magnify the problems of programs not originated in HD, resulting in pictures that are less appealing than what viewers experienced with analog TV sets. The solution is in the conversion processes available and we will discuss the necessary steps for optimal results. Snell is the company formed from the recent merger of Pro-Bel and Snell & Wilcox. Mr. Shike has over 25 years of experience in the TV/entertainment equipment industry. He has held positions in product management, sales, marketing, and business development at companies including CMX, Aurora, Chyron, and Spruce Technologies. If you don't have a Turner ID Badge, please sign up here for access to the Turner Campus before noon on Monday August 10th.

 

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And as usual, construction in the area continues...

July Meeting

"Great Ideas Contest"

Thanks to all who came and participated in "Great Ideas" on July 13. For those who couldn't make it, some of the suggestions for future meetings are the following:

  1. Presentation on the Sony CineAlta 24p Acquisition System and its relationship to film
  2. Mobile video
    1. over terrestrial DTV
    2. A/153 M/H standard
  3. HD boot camp
  4. DTV – now that it is here how is it working?
  5. Tour of WAGA facilities.  They have a new tech core
  6. Methods for contribution for local news using methods other than microwave or satellite
    1. This could be a  panel of local stations
    2. Now that Nextel has moved the stations from the old 2GHz system to new frequencies what are the post Nextel experiences?
  7. File based workflow - Discussion of real world experiences
    1. Problems
    2. Advantages
    3. Costs
    4. etc.
  8. Archiving in the digital world.  This is a big problem as stations struggle with archiving the massive amounts of data.
  9. Media Asset management
    1. What Metadata do you use?  What system?
    2. Protection of assets.
  10. Developing a Business Continuity Plan (Emergency preparedness)
  11. Going Green
  12. IPTV
    1. In the plant (e.g. – replacing in house MATV systems)
    2. Via cable to the end user
  13. Transcoding technology
  14. HULU, YouTube, and others – how will this affect us?
  15. Challenges of supporting the new world of File Based Workflow
    1. Where do we find engineers?
    2. What job skills are needed?
    3. How do we keep up to date?
    4. What is the cost?
    5. What are the colleges (and high schools) doing for this?  Opportunity to get them in here and become part of our discussions.
  16. Compression techniques and state of the art.
  17. Research on compression and imaging technologies at Georgia Tech
  18. SCAD tour
  19. Georgia Dome is upgrading to HD.  Can we do a tour?
  20. Data networking is becoming very important.  What considerations are needed to design the LAN/WAN for video and FBW?
  21. We need to look into Webcasting the meetings
  22. Digital data storage systems.  We are getting into bigger and bigger storage systems (SANS, Grid Servers, etc).  What do we need to know?
  23. Central casting is becoming more prevalent (moving/combining operations into central locations).  How will this affect us and what do we need to do to prepare for it?
  24. Monitoring and control systems (SNMP, automated monitoring systems, auto call for help, etc.).  As our systems become more complex we need better monitoring.  Ron Caird has offered to do this for October.
  25. Challenges of moving large amounts of data over long distances quickly.  Why it doesn’t work and what can be done to fix this?  Jack Linder has offered this for August (We would need a sponsor).

Your suggestions and comments are most welcome. Please pass them along to Zandra, Jack, or one of the managers.


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The August 2009 SBE Atlanta meeting will be held Tuesday, 8/18/2009 at the Turner Techwood campus, 1000 Techwood Drive ATL 30318.
It will be in the Multi-Purpose room in the 1000 Bldg. Start time is 7 PM.

Through the assistance of Kenny Miller, Senior Account Manager at CTG, there will be a presentation on NewTek's "TriCaster" suite of products.

In particular, the meeting will focus on using the TriCaster product in a RADIO environment. Nationally syndicated radio hosts such as Steve Harvey, Kidd Kraddick, and Leo LaPorte are airing their shows with live video content on the web using the TriCaster product line. It is also being used by CBS Radio, Clear Channel, and ESPN Radio in a number of markets.

Due to security reasons, advanced registration required. E-mail wmagliocco AT earthlink DOT net, subject August 2009 SBE meeting.

Pizza dinner will be provided by NewTek.

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www.Atlanta-SMPTE.org

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