From Digital Cinema to Home Theater...the next hundredyears of SMPTE

  • Speakers:
  • Date & time: Thursday, 21 September 2000
    • 6:30 PM Social hour with refreshments plus equipment demonstrations
    7:30 PM Program
     
    Meeting organizer: Richard Mizer, Western Region Governor of SMPTE
     

    Program:

    In the early 1950s, the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (SMPE) changedtheir name to the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE),for the obvious reason that television was emerging as an important partof the Entertainment Industry, and Standards needed to be written. Now 50 years later perhaps it is time to change it again, to the Societyof Digital Cinema and Home Theater Engineers.

    As we watch the convergence of Television, Computers and Telecommunicationschange the way motion pictures and television are produced, distributedand exhibited, what will the future engineering members of the Societybe working on?  As new entertainment options like Internet StreamingMedia, WebTV, DVD, Ultimate TV, Interactive TV replace that old RCA VistaVision Television Set, and movies are sent digitally to theaters that nevereven made their way onto film, like Toy Story, what should the society'sfocus be?

    To shed a little light on this not so distant future, Richard Mizer,our Western Region Governor of SMPTE, has assembled a panel of expertsto talk about their vision of the future.
     

    Welcome:

    SMPTEsf  welcomes members and friends to attend without charge.Reservations are not required for this meeting.

    Location:

    Silicon Graphics Inc.
    1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy. Mountain View, California
    Building 40 -- the SGI PresentationCenter
    Please note that a new groupat SGI has taken over the operation of our meeting facility. Expect tosign in with security at the door.

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