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SMPTE Content
February 18, 2026
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SMPTE Opens Call for Papers for 2026 Media Technology Summit

 WHITEPLAINS, N.Y. — Feb 18, 2026 — SMPTE®, the home of media professionals, technologists, and engineers, today announced its call for technical papers for the SMPTE 2026 Media Technology Summit. The Summit will be held Nov. 16-19 at the Pasadena... Read More
Richard Welsh
January 30, 2026
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SMPTE’s Vision and Mission: Shaping the Future of Media in 2026 and the Next Century

 Welcome to 2026! We may be a month or so in already, but it’s not too late to wish you all a...
Russell Poole
January 30, 2026
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SMPTE Spotlight: Andy Beach

 As AI continues to dominate the conversation, the media tech industry is seeking...
SMPTE Content
January 30, 2026
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2025 SMPTE Standards Round-Up

 SMPTE Standards have played a significant role in the media technology industry for well...
SMPTE Content
January 22, 2026
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SMPTE Announces Steve LLamb as ISO/TC 36 Cinematography Chair

 WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Jan. 22, 2026 —SMPTE®, the home of media professionals, technologists,...

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ETIA
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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
ETIA
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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
ETIA
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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
SCIEN
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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
ETIA
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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
November 10, 2014

Deploying Video Platforms in the Cloud

Thursday’s program began with a session on deploying video platforms in the cloud, with speakers sharing their experiences and insights. The messages included: --Bhavik Vyes... Read More
November 3, 2014

SMPTE 2013: Canon Previews Sophia Loren In 'The Human Voice'

During Thursday’s session on cinematography, Canon Senior Fellow Larry Thorpe previewed some clips from The Human Voice, a 30-minute short lensed with the Canon C500 in 2K... Read More
UHDTV
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October 24, 2014

UHDTV: Building The Plane In Flight

Chaired by Pete Putnam of ROAM Consulting, a group of three panels focused on "UHDTV: Building the Plane in Flight." The first paper, on the development of Super Hi-Vision... Read More
Standards
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October 24, 2014

SMPTE Centennial Campaign launches with $1 million

SMPTE Executive Director Barbara Lange announced the launch of the SMPTE Centennial Celebration Campaign's Next Century Fund. The Walt Disney Company, Panasonic and Dolby... Read More
M&E
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October 24, 2014

Digital storage in professional M&E: the 2014 survey

The last day of SMPTE opened with the presentation of the results of a "2014 Survey of Digital Storage in Professional Media and Entertainment" from Thomas Coughlin,... Read More
4K
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October 24, 2014

Accelerating 4K workflows

In a session on "LTFS Transforms LTO tape into Nearline Storage: Accelerating 4K Media Workflows," Tridib "TC" Chakravarty, founder of StorageDNA, talked about how LTO tape... Read More
4K
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October 24, 2014

A file-based content exchange ecosystem

Heiko Sparenberg, Head of the Digital Cinema group at Fraunhofer IIS in Germany, presented a paper co-authored by Siegfried Foessel on "A Concept for a File Based Content... Read More
HD
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October 24, 2014

Open standards approach for video/film archiving & preservation

This presentation spelling out the development and basics details of the AXF standard was presented by Front Porch Digital CTO Brian Campanotti. "The scale of data today,... Read More
Microfilm
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October 24, 2014

A holistic approach to digital preservation

Bjørn H Brudeli, Product Manager for Piql Preservation Services in Norway presented a new storage technology for digital preservation in his presentation. Piql, established... Read More
HD
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October 24, 2014

Media archiving at the Library of Congress

James Snyder, Senior Systems Administrator for the Library of Congress' National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC), delivered a presentation on "Media Archiving,... Read More
AXF
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October 24, 2014

Applying AXF tools from set through production

Consultant S. Merrill Weiss presented a paper on "Applying AXF Tools from the Set through Production Workflows." AXF was developed to enable multiple files to be treated as a... Read More
4K
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October 24, 2014

Real Time Super Resolution for 4K/8K

Seiichi Gohshi, professor at Kugakuin University, gave a talk on "Real Time Super Resolution for 4K/8K with Non-linear Signal Processing." He started his presentation with a... Read More
HD
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October 24, 2014

Beyond HD and next-gen broadcasting formats

Klaus Weber, responsible for the worldwide product marketing of the imaging products for Grass Valley a Belden Brand, presented "Beyond HD -- The status of the image... Read More
4K
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October 24, 2014

Detail in 4K imaging

Pierre Routhier, Vice-President of 3D strategy for Technicolor spoke about "4K: Model for motion control to ensure true 4K detail at capture." One critical component for... Read More
Judder
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October 24, 2014

A psychophysical study isolating judder

Dolby Laboratories' Scott Daly presented a paper on "A psychophysical study isolating judder using fundamental signals," co-authored by Ning Xu and James Crenshaw (Dolby... Read More
HDR
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October 24, 2014

A quality metric for HDR (High Dynamic Range)

Gary Demos. CEO of Image Essence, which which is developing wide-dynamic-range codec technology based upon a combination of wavelets, optimal filters, and flowfields,... Read More
Broadcast
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October 23, 2014

Defining File-Based Workflows

File-based workflows are a continuing issue in the facility. In a session on "Addressing Issues in File Based Workflows: the Joint Task Force on File Formats and Media... Read More

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