This webcast focuses on the fundamentals of colour science as it relates to the motion picture and television industry and explores how we can take advantage of our visual system for improved visual quality.
The webcast covers:
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Jaclyn Pytlarz Senior Engineer, Dolby Laboratories |
Date: Wednesday 27th February 2019
12:30 PM EST / 9:30 AM PST / 17:30 GMT
Ofcom recently surveyed the 5 main UK broadcasters and found that women held only 25% of technical roles and so the report shines more light on a problem we all live with in this and many other industries. Pleasingly there are noticeable and increasing steps of late to actively counter the gender imbalance when it comes to workplace diversity.
More can always be done, but recent, successful, steps by IBC to even out male/female representation in the conference speakers is one example of taking concrete steps to ensure that the women who are in the industry are heard and seen. Fortunately IBC is not alone in this and many trade shows across industries have taken positive steps and, at the very least, included Women in Technology sessions in their agenda.
This webcast brought to you by SMPTE and SID, the Society for Information Display, looks at:
• Why Women in Technology activities are becoming more important in the high tech industry;
• How the display industry does in terms of diversity;
• What is next for the industry and how can women contribute to its success.
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Tara Akhavan CTO & Founder of IRYStec Marketing Vice-Chair, Society for Information Display |
We’re all starting to get the hang of the basics: that PTP is the new Black and Burst, that we still need sync to make studios work and that PTP (IEEE1588) is standardised under ST 2059 for use in the broadcast industry. So given its importance, how can we make it redundant?
Thomas Kernen from Mellanox and Chair within the STMPE standards community takes about his real-lift work on implementing PTP with an eye on redundancy methods
Thomas covers the following and more:
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Thomas Kernen Staff Software Architect, Mellanox Technologies Co-chair SMPTE 32NF Network Facilities Technology Committee |
Thursday February 7th, 10am PST / 1pm EST / 18:00 GMT
Now available on-demand!
There is so much talk about HDR, wide colour gamut (WCG), ‘Better Pixels’ and all the TVs seem to interpolate motion up to 100Hz or above, that it’s good to stop and check we know why all of this matters – and crucially when it doesn’t.
SMPTE’s new ‘Essential Technology Concepts Webcasts’ are here to help and for the first webcast, David Long will look at the fundamentals of colour, contrast and motion in terms of what we actually see.
This promises to be a great talk and, the chances are, even people who ‘know it already’ will be reminded of a thing or two!
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David Long Director RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity & MAGIC Spell Studios |
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