Audio for Advanced Video Broadcasting

Moderator:
Fred Willard, Univision - Washington, DC, USA

Presenters:
Robert Bleidt, Fraunhofer USA Digital Media Technologies - San Jose, CA, USA
Stefan Meltzer, Independent Audio Technology Consultant - Germany
Andreas Niedermeier, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS - Erlangen, Germany
Scott Norcross, Dolby Laboratories - San Francisco, CA, USA
Kazuho Ono, NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories - Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Skip Pizzi, NAB - Washington DC, USA
Peter Poers, Junger Audio GmbH - Berlin, Germany
Jim Starzynski, Director and Principal Audio Engineer, NBCUniversal - New York, NY, USA

Exciting and ground-breaking progress has been achieved over the past year in combining the next generation audio and video technologies into compelling and remarkable experiences to the consumer. Sports broadcasting has led the charge in parallel concurrent development of delivery infrastructure through MPEG-H / ATSC 3.0 for the 2018 Olympics in Korea, next year’s world cup in Moscow, AC-4 / 3.0 in the States, and 8K / 22.2 in Japan for the 2020 games. Covering live capture, post, metadata handling, and transmission and delivery, we present to you the world’s foremost experts in advanced audio for broadcast and streaming. Don’t miss this popular session and the latest developments as standards are now becoming product and reality.