Meeting: IMF – A Thing of Dark Mystery or One of Simple Beauty?

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: Wednesday, 6 June, 2018, 18:30 BST
Location: Pincents Manor, Pincents Lane, Calcot, Berks, RG31 4UQ

In a joint event between RTS Thames Valley and SMPTE UK Section, discover how IMF (Interoperable Master Format) will benefit broadcast and online workflows just as it has changed existing subtitling and dubbing pipelines for Film Localisation.
This meeting starts with a primer on IMF from SMPTE Standards VP Bruce Devlin (Mr MXF) who discusses the significance of the first specification (as opposed to standard) coming out of SMPTE. Steve Fish will then look at the use of IMF in Turner Internationals Television business. Finally Andy Lampard delves in to IMF for Film Localistion.
As a bonus, you may find out something about ST 2110 as well!

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Speakers:
Bruce Devlin, @MrMXF
Steve Fish is VP Media & Technology Architecture, Turner Broadcasting
Andy Lampard is the Head of Research and Development at Motion Picture Solutions.

Webinar: What Is SMPTE ST 2110 & Why Does It Matter?

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Date: Tuesday, 5 June 2018, 18:00 BST, 12PM EST

The SMPTE ST 2110 Professional Media Over Managed IP Networks suite of standards is a major contributing factor in the movement toward one common internet protocol (IP)-based mechanism for the professional media industries. The foundation for SMPTE ST 2110 standards is Video Services Forum (VSF) Technical Recommendation for Transport of Uncompressed Elementary Stream Media Over IP (TR-03). The SMPTE ST 2110 standards suite specifies the carriage, synchronization, and description of separate elementary essence streams over IP for real-time production, playout, and other professional media applications.

In this free webinar from IEEE, you’ll gain the knowledge you need to help your company make the most of SMPTE ST 2110, a critical enabler of fully internet protocol (IP)-based operations.

Speakers:
Joel E. Welch, Director of Education, SMPTE
Thomas Bause Mason, Director of Standards Development, SMPTE

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Webinar: Demystifying the Asian Pay-TV Market.

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date : 13:00 BST May 30th 2018
Presenter: Juliette Boulay, Analyst, Dataxis
With a higher pay-TV subscriber base and substantial growth potential, the Asian market is often described as full of opportunities for businesses. But from Australia to Laos or China, local markets are showing a great variety of trends.
The aim of this webinar is to situate Asia on the worldwide pay-TV market and to address its specificities.

Key topics :
– Global pay-TV subscribers and revenue trends
– Characteristics of Asian markets in terms of demand and Pay-TV service offer
– Challenges, opportunities and forecasts by region

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Video: Proposed Measured Display Characterization File for HDR Consumer Displays

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Tyler Pruitt explains how HDR displays can be characterised and how this can be implemented. Based up on a technical paper here, this talk covers these topics and includes an extensive Q&A section.
• Rec 709 workflows
• Colour Volume Remapping
• Dynamic Metadata
• BT.2100 Calibration
• HDR Calibration
• HDR Bypass
• Colour Volume Profile Files

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