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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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October 21, 2014

Sinclair Broadcast's Mark Aitkin looks into the future of broadcasting

At the industry luncheon on Tuesday, Sinclair Broadcast Group VP of Advanced Technology Mark Aitkin spoke about "Where to from here? (Seen through the eyes of a local market... Read More
Featured
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April 9, 2013

Jon Landau Highlights Technology Summit on Cinema

A conversation with Oscar winning producer Jon Landau highlighted the NAB Technology Summit on Cinema, co-produced by SMPTE. The Sunday session was moderated by Variety's ... Read More
News
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April 9, 2013

SMPTE Launches Centennial Predict-the-Future Contest

SMPTE Executive DirectorBarbara Langeannounced the launch of the Society’s Centennial Predict-the-Future Contest, Sunday at the NAB Technology Summit on Cinema, co-produced... Read More
HD
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April 9, 2013

Technology Summit on Cinema Discusses "Tidal Wave of Pixels"

“It will be as easy to do an 8K show a decade from now as it is to do 2K HD production now,” predicted Jim Houston, Principal, Starwatcher Digital, though it is also clear... Read More
3D
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April 7, 2013

Sandrew Discusses the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of 3D Conversion

Conversion is maturing, stated Legend3D FounderBarry Sandrew, Saturday at the Technology Summit on Cinema. “It offers filmmakers a dynamic creative canvas for creating 3D... Read More
HD
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April 7, 2013

SMPTE Examines Distributed Postproduction for Cinema

Postproduction workflows are evolving from a localized, tightly integrated and highly controlled process to one where production and post may occur collaboratively and with... Read More
3D
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April 7, 2013

SMPTE Eyeing Standards for Immersive Audio, HFRs

Emerging immersive audio is now firmly on SMPTE's agenda. In an overview of the activities being undertaken by the newly established Technology Committee on Digital Sound... Read More
High Frame Rates
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December 23, 2012

SMPTE Conference day 1; “Less like film – more like nature”

The 2012 SMPTE opened on Monday 22 October 20 with its pre-conference symposium on ‘high frame rates for digital cinema’. Saying that higher frame rates is a ‘good thing’ is,... Read More
APRS
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December 6, 2012

SMPTE Member, Eddie Veale Receives a Sound Fellowship from Association of Professional Recording Services (APRS)

Pioneer of the first professional home recording studio, acoustic consultant and designer Eddie Veale has been recognized for his contribution to the world of audio, as he... Read More
AES
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October 26, 2012

Tech Committee Focused on Cinema Sound

Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Brian Vessa provided an overview of the work of SMPTE’s B-chain study group and urged participation in the resulting technical committee, 25CSS,... Read More
UHD
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October 26, 2012

The picture tells the story at SMPTE?

On the last afternoon of the SMPTE Conference, an interesting insight into the practicality of UHD-1 (aka 4k or Ultra-HD) came from a French consortium of companies, the... Read More
Multiscreen
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October 26, 2012

Pirates of the Olympics?

The Olympics had a dedicated session on the last day at the SMPTE conference. This blogger reported on the 3D coverage in an earlier blog, but other interesting issues came... Read More
October 25, 2012

A little bit more on clouds and stuff...

As the last blog explains, if you’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, you would have enjoyed the whole half day of presentations about them. There are evangelists for... Read More
Cloud
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October 25, 2012

A Cloudspotter’s Guide To Migration

“This is big business, and if we think we are the tail wagging the dog. We are wrong,” Al Kovalick (Media Systems Consulting) said of the cloud. Read More
3D
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October 25, 2012

In close and personal – the 3D Olympics

3D is certainly alive! There were many interesting presentations on 3DTV, but none more so than Jim DeFilippis’ presentation on 3D at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Just nine... Read More
IP-based Media
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October 25, 2012

FCC Update on IP-Delivery of Closed Captions

Earlier this year the FCC adopted rules for IP delivery of closed captions in video programming and these regulations are starting to go into effect. Wednesday at the SMPTE... Read More
MXF
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October 24, 2012

SMPTE Exhibition "Excellent As Always"

An encouraged Amberfin CTO Bruce Devlin took some time out from the SMPTE exhibition—which opened 23 October and will be open through Thursday—to talk about some of the... Read More
October 24, 2012

“If you can’t find it, it’s not worth a damn thing”

Thus spoke Darryl Jefferson, responsible for the incredibly successful US Olympics coverage at NBCUniversal, at the SMPTE industry lunch on 23 October 2012. His reference was... Read More
ROKU
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October 24, 2012

Any video content from the dawn of time at the touch of a button?

Anthony Wood, CEO of ROKU, gave the opening keynote on the first day of the SMPTE conference (23 October 2012). Anthony is a successful and charming Silicon Valley... Read More
HFR
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October 24, 2012

SMPTE Planning to Create HFR Test Material

CineCert’s John Hurst, co-chair of SMPTE 21DC, kicked off an update of the technology committee’s work by reporting that the bulk of DCI standards have now been published but... Read More
HFR
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October 24, 2012

HFRs Challenge Postproduction

Paul Chapman, senior vp of technology at Burbank-based postproduction facility Fotokem, led a discussion of some of the challenges that high frame rates bring to post, during... Read More
3D
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October 23, 2012

The Trumbull campaign for quality.

The key–note presentation for the ‘higher frame rate’ symposium was given by the respected Douglas Trumbull – filmmaker, visionary, and more. Douglas explained that his... Read More
UHD
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October 22, 2012

I was a teenage SMPTE Conference blogger!

There's so much happening in the broadcasting and cinema business right now, its no surprise that attendance at the SMPTE Conference has risen again this year. If you can’t... Read More
May 16, 2012

The new normal

The emerging media technologies forum closed with a keynote from Peter Hinssen of Across Technology which proved to be both witty and wise. Read More

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