Joe Kane, JoeKane Productions, Inc.
6:30 PM social hour with refreshments
7:30 PM presentation begins
Joe chose the Laserdisc format as the means of communication and introducedthe groundbreaking "A Video Standard" in 1989, which covers color renditionand decoding, audio separation and levels, and patterns for testing high-voltageregulation and many other parameters. That LD and its subsequent LDand DVD versions,"Video Essentials", have been instrumental in increasing the awarenesson the consumer side of video monitoring -- on the part of both equipmentproducers and consumers -- about the need for presentation standards.
In the age of multiple-standard digital television, video is slicedand diced and compressed and expanded, and is still supposed to look greaton a wide variety of monitors. In a world of MPEG encoding/decoding, theold color-bar pattern has little meaning and we are seeing new distortionsof motion vectors, color space transformations, sound/video sync and thelike. How do we evaluate picture and sound quality through these new convolutedpaths in terms that represent what a viewer sees and judges to be "excellent"or only "fair" or even worse?
Until now, we've mainly viewed video via the venerable cathode-ray tube(CRT). Now we are faced with the proper calibration of new display technologies-- DLP light-valves, LCD, ElectroLuminescent (EI), and plasma-based projectionand large screen systems -- that use lamps and plasma in place of CRTsfor lighting sources. Joe will discuss the current state of the art ofvideo display and where we need to go in the future. In addition, he willbe available to discuss display and other issues affecting the deliveryof video over the Internet.
SMPTEsf welcomesmembers and friends to attend without charge.
Silicon Graphics Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy. Mountain View, California
Building 40 -- the newSGI Presentation Center
