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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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May 16, 2012

A view of journalism

News will always remain a major driver for broadcasting, so it was appropriate that the emerging technologies forum included a presentation from a journalist.Glenn Zorpette... Read More
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May 16, 2012

Is the future bright?

Chuck Dagesfrom Warner Bros. opened up a session calledPulling it all togetherby charting some of the disruptive technologies in its history. Talkies were introduced, he... Read More
May 16, 2012

Show me the money

The first day of the emerging media technologies conference was largely around the way that new acquisition and delivery techniques are changing the way we present and... Read More
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May 16, 2012

Emerging technologies, day two

The delegates are grabbing a final coffee and comparing notes on last night's excellent dinner at the Chateau des Eaux Vives, overlooking the lake in Geneva. Day two of the... Read More
May 15, 2012

The content of the future

Sooner or later, all conversations about the broadcast industry comes back to the universal truth that content is king. The final session of the first day of the emerging... Read More
May 15, 2012

Delivering the future

It is clear that the growing demand for content and platforms means that we need to make the best use of the bandwidth available if every member of the diversified audience... Read More
May 15, 2012

An alternative viewpoint

The four panellists in the final session before lunch came from the International School in Geneva and provided an excellent and stimulating debate. The admirably lucid and... Read More
May 15, 2012

Clouds on the horizon?

The second session of the SMPTE/EBU forum looked at technological developments, and in particular the influence of the cloud. First speaker was Karl Schubert of Grass Valley,... Read More
May 15, 2012

Vision of the future?

The opening session of the SMPTE/EBU forum was a panel discussion to develop a vision of the future. Chaired by Ruurd Bierman of Dutch public broadcaster Nederlandse Publieke... Read More
May 13, 2012

Emerging Media Technologies

Delegates from 20 countries are sipping their coffees, ready to start deliberating on the future of our industry and how developing technologies will drive it. A dense... Read More
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April 16, 2012

TSC: From Cinemaplex to Googleplex?

Will we see a day when the cinema audience is asked to turn their phones on rather than off? That was the controversial blue sky topic at a session devoted to enhancing... Read More
April 16, 2012

F65 Short "Eldorado" Premieres At The TSC

Eldorado—a new 8-minutes short film fromCurtis Clark, ASC, which was lensed with Sony’s F65 camera, was presented Sunday at the NAB’s Technology Summit on Cinema,... Read More
April 16, 2012

TSC: Digital Cinema Standards Update

John Hurst, CTO, CineCert highlighted a number of current SMPTE activities in standards for Digital Cinema, during the NAB's Technology Summit on Cinema co-produced with... Read More
April 15, 2012

LEDs: Much more than meets the eyes

LED lighting technology is being deployed at pace in broadcast studios, and increasingly for feature film with the promise of significantly reduced running costs, yet the... Read More
April 15, 2012

TSC: AMPAS SciTech Council Talks LED, ACES, Preservation

During the first day of the NAB Show's Technology Summit on Cinema, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Science and Technology Council gave a comprehensive... Read More
April 15, 2012

TSC Opens With Digital Cinema Deployment Update

Fifty. That is the number of standards published by SMPTE this past year, reported SMPTE Executive DirectorBarbara Langeat the opening of the NAB Show’s Technology Summit... Read More
October 27, 2011

SMPTE Members Honored

SMPTE Fellow Andy Setos received the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award, Wednesday night during the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ 2011 Engineering Awards. Read More
October 26, 2011

Sen. Dodd Urges Industry to Address Content Theft

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October 24, 2011

IIF ACES Addressed At SMPTE Symposium

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April 11, 2011

Trumbull Tackles Higher Frame Rates

Continuing James Cameron’s dialog about higher frame rates, Douglas Trumbull, the inventor of ShowScan, delivered a keynote at the DCS during which he suggested that when it... Read More
April 11, 2011

2011 DCS Opens in Las Vegas

SMPTE president and Sony exec Peter Lude opened the DCS 2011, “Advances in image and sound: 3D, 4K and Beyond,” explaining “we are trying to extend this beyond cinema, though... Read More
April 10, 2011

First Images From Sony Prototype 4K Camera Screened at DCS

The Arrival, a short lensed with a prototype of Sony’s new digital cinematography camera that is capable of recording 16-bit 4K and higher, got a lot of interest when it was... Read More
April 10, 2011

DCS Explores IIF and Greater Bit Depth

Bill Bennett, ASC opened a morning session titled “Better Pixels from Greater Bit Depth,” during the DCS with a series of beautiful images that he shot 12-bit with the ARRI... Read More
April 9, 2011

Streather Emphasizes Need for 3D Training Courses

“I find it astonishing that there is no permanent 3D training course at any film school in the UK,” said Phil Streather, CEO of UK production company Principal Large Format,... Read More

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