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David Cardinal

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June 29, 2016

ETCA 2016 kicks off with Alive and Online: The "New Linear" Television

We're kicking off ETCA this morning -- building on the success of previous year's ETIA conferences -- with an expanded program and some exciting new tracks including a major... Read More
MCN
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June 29, 2016

ETCA 2016: The rise of Multi-channel networks and personalization

Jim Burger, a familiar figure to those who've attended past SMPTE events, kicked off a panel on how internet technology can be used to make the electronic entertainment... Read More
OTT
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June 29, 2016

ETCA 2016: Media on My Terms

After opening remarks from SMPTE's Executive Director Barbara Lange and Pat Griffis, Tom Coughlin kicked off Day 2 of ETCA 2016 with an all-star panel focused on how media... Read More
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June 29, 2016

ETCA 2016: Entertainment on the Road -- The Connected Car

Just as an increasing amount of content is being consumed on mobile devices, so too is the car a growth market for entertainment -- although one that has its own unique... Read More
3D
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June 29, 2016

ETCA 2016: Evolution of Audio -- Connected from Cinema to Couch to Car

Switching from video to audio, Sunil Bharitkar from HP led a panel on the challenges and future direction of audio as part of entertainment. Underlying the changes is a... Read More
HD
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June 29, 2016

ETCA 2016: The Future of Home Entertainment in a Connected World -- A Warner Bros. Perspective

The conference's Day 2 keynote was given by Ron Sanders, CEO of Warner Home Entertainment, in the form of an interview conducted by EnGadget's Roberto Baldwin. Ron started... Read More
HD
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June 29, 2016

ETCA 2016: HDR, the Silver Bullet for Connected Content?

Annie Chang of Walt Disney moderated a broad panel on this hot button topic. For many attendees HDR and wide-color gamut are more important than 4K resolution to image... Read More
VR
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June 28, 2016

ETCA 2016: VR and the Race to Real

VR isn't new to ETCA. Last year featured a "Holodeck" and evening chat on the topic. This year's conference extended the coverage with a keynote by AMD's Roy Taylor on the... Read More
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June 28, 2016

ETCA 2016: Live through the internet: Here today, better tomorrow -- Panel

While the day's first panel touched on the issues related to live streaming as part of the overall challenge of delivering TV content digitally, this session focused... Read More
VR
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June 28, 2016

ETCA 2016: VR Storytelling in a Connected World

In addition to the technical challenges in delivering VR, there are substantial challenges involved in re-thinking storytelling to work with the unique features and... Read More
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June 26, 2015

ETIA 2015 Special Event: Not so safe -- Entertainment over the web

Until recently, security for the entertainment industry was almost entirely about piracy. However, given recent events, cyber security in general has also become a very... Read More
UHD
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June 18, 2015

ETIA 2015: Panel on multi-screen content delivery: How many screens before I say no more?

Colin Dixon of nScreen Media provided some background stats to help set the stage for a discussion of second screen connectivity. iOS and Android split mobile video almost... Read More
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June 18, 2015

ETIA 2015: Expert panel disagrees on the future of consumer ownership of content

Danny Kaye of 20th Century Fox kicked off the discussion, by showing data that over 80 million US consumers are still buying physical digital content, about the same as the... Read More
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June 18, 2015

ETIA 2015: Panel on Live Events over the Web

The conference is drawing to a close with its final panel, on live event distribution, chaired by Eric Grab, from NeuLion, that produced and broadcast over 55,000 events on... Read More
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June 17, 2015

ETIA 2015 kicks off: Some familiar topics revisited, plus many new ones

For the third year, ETIA returns to the Stanford Campus, co-hosted by SMPTE and Stanford's SCIEN. As usual, it has a packed line-up of speakers for two full days, plus an... Read More
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June 17, 2015

ETIA 2015: Introduction to Image Quality

Our first morning kicked off with a pair of talks dedicated to setting the stage of what is needed to render high-quality images for entertainment purposes. Dolby's Pat... Read More
HDR
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June 17, 2015

ETIA 2015 Keynote: Clouds, Pixels, and Video Streams

The afternoon's featured speaker was Dr. Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer at Netflix. He walked the conference attendees through the challenges Netflix has faced in... Read More

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