Exclusives
Broadcasters attending this year’s event in New York City (Nov. 13-14) can easily fill their two-day schedule with sessions about how to deliver video to mobile devices, how to get ready for ATSC 3.0 and how to improve HD images in a 4K world.
At least a dozen people had Apple laptops and iPads stolen during a break at the annual conference in Hollywood, says Barbara Lange, SMPTE executive director. The LAPD continues to investigate the incident.
BXF 3.0 Says Goodbye To Manual Data Entry
Next month, The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers is going to unveil Broadcast Exchange Format 3.0, the latest traffic and billing file format for broadcasters, advertisers and advertising agencies, that will automate scheduling data entry at the station level.
Although best known for her work in setting global tech standards, Warner Bros.’s Wendy Aylsworth is also a leader in communicating technology’s issues to Hollywood’s creative side.
The Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers chose the senior vice president of technology at Warner Bros. to succeed Pete Ludé with a two-year term.
SMPTE Working On Five New Standards
The projects in the works include an archive exchange format, interoperability, standardized captioning interchange, traffic/automatin interface and lip synch. For all that’s going on at NAB 2012, click here.
Chris Dodd, the chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and former United States Senator, will address attendees at the 2011 Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) Annual Technical Conference & Exposition.
Dodd will address a SMPTE conference luncheon at 12:45 p.m. on Oct. 26 at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel & Spa and will focus on the devastating impact of digital content theft on the workers and businesses in the entertainment industry.
