DTV Audio Group Seminar in Las Vegas: Evolving Audio Challenges and Solutions
Sunday, April 7 at the Alexis Park Hotel in Las Vegas
The DTV Audio Group, in association with the Sports Video Group, invite you to attend the 2013 DTV Audio Production and Distribution Seminar. This will be held from 12:00pm to 5:30 PM on Sunday, April 7, 2013. It will take place at the Alexis Park Hotel at 375 East Harmon in Las Vegas.
Registration for this free-of-charge event is now open, and all members of the digital television audio community are invited to attend. The 2013 DTV Audio Seminar will feature in-depth discussions on a wide range of topics, including:
- The role of transmission processing in loudness management and CALM Act compliance
- Introducing new technology to combat over-processing
- Audio accessibility, multi language, and hearing impaired support
- 21st Century Video and Communications Accessibility Act compliance (and beyond)
- Surveying the evolving metadata and encoding landscape.
- Defining requirements for future standards
- The impact of multichannel virtualization on home and mobile listening environments
- Will television follow cinema into object-oriented mixing?
- 5.1 Production challenges and opportunities.
Program:
12:00: Registration, Light Lunch Provided
1:00: Opening Remarks
Roger Charlesworth, Executive Director, DTV Audio Group
1:10: DTVAG 5.1 Tutorial Announcement
Steve Silva, Director of Procedures and Training, Fox Networks Engineering & Operations
1:15: Stopping the CALM Act from Destroying Audio
Tim Carroll, President and Founder Linear Acoustic
Jeffrey Riedmiller, Director Sound Platform Group, Dolby Laboratories
2:00: Strategic Planning for Enhanced Audio Accessibility and Multiple Language Suport
Jim Starzynski, Director, Advanced Engineering & Principal Audio Engineer, NBC Universal (moderator)
Dan Holden, Comcast Fellow and Chief Scientist, Comcast Cable
Patrick Waddell, Manager Standards and Regulatory, Harmonic
Oren Williams, Senior Manager Business Development Dolby Laboratories
Dave Wilson, Senior Director Technology and Standards, CEA
2:45: Implementing Audio Accessibility and Advanced Audio Processes in the File Domain Workflows
Kirk Marple, Founder and Chief Software Architect, RadiantGrid Technologies
2:55: DTVAG Announcement
3:00: Networking Break
3:30: Audio Challenges of the Accelerating Pace of Mobile Adoption for Sports Content
Kevin Cleary, Senior Technical Audio Producer, ESPN
3:45: Group Discussion: The Emerging Impact of Virtualization and Object Oriented Audio
4:00: Music for the Small Screen: The Practical, Political, Technological and Aesthetic Challenges of Multi-Channel Music on for Entertainment Television
Michael Abbott, Independent Sound Designer, Engineer and Consultant
Bob Clearmountain, Recording Engineer and Producer
Josiah Gluck, Post and Pre-Production Mixer and Associate Music Mixer Saturday Night
5:00: Group Discussion: Approaching Tipping Point for Media over IP
Steve Harvey, Contributing Editor Pro Sound News, TV Technology (moderator)
5:30: Meeting Adjourned, Reception in Foyer