Home to many of the early developments in television, the San Francisco Bay area continues to innovate and enable the creation, production and dissemination of rich media.
The San Francisco section of SMPTE offers a local forum for membership to be informed and educated on the rapidly emerging developments in the technology of our industry.
We are very pleased to welcome De Anza College as our new Student Chapter. Check out the videos on our YouTube page (Link above the picture).
The San Francisco section welcomes everyone to our meetings. Please check below for details of the next event.
The section thanks our local sponsors
I think it was ABC that coined the phrase ‘Up Close and Personal’ for their Olympic Games broadcasts, which seemingly defines the viewer’s experience of watching a live event on TV. By the nature of the television screen’s size and single point of focus of a lens, live event coverage is more of a point of view and less of the experience of being immersed into the event when attending.
The cloud is everywhere! From e-commerce to storage, cloud services are becoming commonplace, driving businesses like Amazon and Netflix. Amazon Web Services is a leader in providing global cloud services for many different industry segments, including Media and Entertainment..
Bhavik Vyas will discuss current cloud services for Media and Entertainment and how a number of companies are using the cloud in their media business. Amazon Web Services will be announcing a number of new product offerings at NAB in April, and Bhavik will discuss these in detail as well.
Not every OLED is created equal
Everyone has been hearing about the new OLED TVs and monitors that are coming out or that are already in the market. But are they all the same? When you talk about OLED, are all of the manufacturers actually using the same technology? Actually no. OLED has a number of different implementations and can be used for a variety of applications beyond displays.
The talk will review the different OLED technologies and their uses. It will describe how these work and how they differ.
The San Francisco section presents
The 2012 Holiday Social
Our thanks go to Dolby for the use of their facilities in Sunnyvale for the 2012 Holiday Social.
They will also be showing off their Innovation Theatre, featuring 4K projection and Atmos sound system.
Our Meeting this month follows on the heels of the SMPTE and AES conferences with a discussion of acoustical characteristics and calibration of cinema sound reproduction systems.
Together our speakers, Pete Soper of Meyer Sound and Brian Long of Skywalker Sound will present investigations into the interactions between cinema loudspeakers and screens.