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December 2007 MEETING
Making the High-Definition Connection with HDMI and Triax
Speaker: Steve Lampen, Belden Wire & Cable, Author: The Audio-Video Cable Installer's Pocket Guide
Date & time: Thursday, 6 Dec 2007
6:30 - 7:30 PM Pizza Dinner*
7:30 PM Program
Meeting organizer: John Goodell, Rick Reagan, SMPTEsf Officers
Program:
Holding the twisted pair in his hands, the old-timer telco installer said to the digital engineer, "You know, sonny, I've got your whole world in my hands!" Cable choice can make or break our best digital intentions. The always entertaining Steve Lampen of Belden will explain everything you ever wanted to know about connecting high-definition video, this time with emphasis on HDMI and triax.
Steve will discuss cable choices for HDMI (High Definition Media Interface), including what HDMI really is and how it works. You'll be amazed at Steve's test results from various kinds of HDMI. Not all HDMI cable is the same!
And what about all those manufacturers offering a triax option for HD? With the development of high-definition video (HD-SDI), many believed traditional triax cable couldn't handle the high-frequency high-bandwidth signal. SMPTE 311M fiber-optic cable was the result. But, can triax carry HD? Steve will cover the important aspects of triax and HD signals that we need to know to optimize our physical plants.
Think "wire" is dull? After this meeting on maximizing your cabling performance, you certainly won't!
Steve Lampen of Belden has had an extensive career in broadcast engineering and installation, film production, and electronic distribution. He holds an FCC Lifetime General License (formerly a First Class FCC License) and is an SBE Certified Broadcast Engineer. On the data side, he's a BICSI Registered Communication Distribution Designer. His latest book, The Audio-Video Cable Installer's Pocket Guide, is published by McGraw-Hill.
Here's what others say about Steve Lampen:
"Steve 'wrote the book', literally, on cable applications and problem solving. He has for years, represented the foremost manufacturer of audio/video/data cable in the world. He is without peer as a speaker/presenter to technical audiences. He imparts knowledge in a smooth, friendly manner holding the attention of groups from just a few to hundreds of engineers. I have never seen Steve unable to respond to a question on his subjects, always informative, never confrontational."
James A. Smith
Past President, Society of Television Engineers
BFA Communications
Burbank, CA
"Steve Lampen puts on a fantastic presentation. He not only really knows all of the details on wire and the use of wire but is able to present it in an interesting and informative method. I agree that papers that present 'A New Way of Doing Something Really Arcane' is boring and worthless and I usually avoid them myself. But Steve is in another completely different league."
Bill Ruck
Broadcast Engineer
San Francisco, CA
"Steve has no problem holding his audience's attention. Always stimulating, the material is solid, the graphics support the verbal, and Steve has an engaging humor-filled manner that keeps the audience plugged in."
Dale Reed
Trompeter Electronics
Mesa, AZ
Join us on Thursday, the 6th of December at 6:30 PM for drinks and pizza,
or at 7:30 for his talk. Our "pizza meetings" always include a freewheeling
Q&A session— informative and enjoyable!
Welcome:
SMPTEsf welcomes members and friends to attend without charge.
Reservations are not required for this meeting.
Location:
Round Table Pizza 1225 El Camino Real [at Oak Grove Ave.]
Menlo Park, CA 94025-4208
*Drinks are availiable on a no-host basis (means that
you pay for yours) from Round Table. There is no obligation to purchase to attend tonight's meeting. SMPTEsf will furnish the Pizza for tonight's meeting.
PARKING: The Round Table in Menlo Park has two dozen spaces of its own, plus there's a huge, free municipal parking lot only a few yards from the restaurant, behind the buildings on the south side of Oak Grove Ave.
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