Under this unique opportunity, experts from around the world will present a one-day seminar “SMPTE Standards Update with Focus on Compression and Beyond HD”. The seminar is focused towards Hong Kong professionals from broadcast, media and related sectors to understand the future development and technical trends. Presentations will include hot topics, applications, and their development focusing on UHD (4K and beyond) and newly released international standard HEVC(H.265). The seminar is co-hosted by Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) and co-organized by Tech-ex Dot Com Ltd.
 
Programme Details
Date: 9 March, 2013 (Saturday)
Time: 09:30~16:30 (lunch break at 13:00~14:30, lunch not included)
Venue: Room A001, Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI)   
Medium: English
Program: Get to know more about what are the recent standardization/developments on:
                ‐ Long term archive of TV programmes and movie materials?   
                - Loudness control 
 
And more on SMPTE Standards 101  
 
Session 1: Moderated by Mr. Peter Symes   
                SMPTE Update on recent Standards work including AXF (Archive Exchange Format), IMF Interoperable
 
                Mastering Format, new synchronization system, etc), presented by various experts from the Standards Committees.
 
Session 2: Mr. Peter Symes, Director, Standards & Engineering of SMPTE, Modern compression systems (focus on HEVC)
 
Session 3: Dr. Hans Hoffmann, The Standards Vice President of SMPTE, Beyond HD
 
Fee: SMPTE Professional members – Free
        SMPTE Associate members – HK$400
        Non‐members － HK$600
        Students – Free