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Workshop on Advanced Television: Components, Equipment and Access Networks                   Wednesday, January 21, 2009                                               
8:30 am-4:30 pm                                                                                           Combined RLE Allen and Haus Conference Rooms        36-428, 462      

This Advanced Television Workshop will address key issues in the co-evolution of television technology and content and broadband access networks as well as a number of important inter-related topics ranging from advanced components, such as displays and imagers, to advanced equipment and transmission, such as video processors, IPTV and PON/access.  Presentations will be from across the value chain from component and equipment manufacturers to service and content providers. Key questions the workshop will explore include the possible evolution paths of television hardware technology, bandwidth requirements for next-generation television services and content, and options for the next-generation of TV/broadband access architectures and systems.

WORKSHOP AGENDA
8:30 REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
Session 1: INTRODUCTIONS
9:00 Intro to CIPS/Workshop Overview Rajeev Ram - MIT
9:30 Intro to TV Signal Distribution Evolution & Content Evolution Marie-Jose Montpetit - MIT
10:00 BREAK
Session 2: COMPONENTS
10:15 Improvements in Motion Image Quality by High Frame Rate Yoshihiko Kuroki - Sony

10:45

An Organic Imager for Flexible Large Area Electronics Ivan Nausieda/Charlie Sodini - MIT
11:15 Quantum Dot Displays Seth Coe-Sullivan - QDVision
11:45 3D TV Michael Bove - MIT  
12:15

LUNCH

Session 3: EQUIPMENT, NETWORKS, & SERVICES I
1:15 Evolution of Video Services Natalie Klym - MIT
1:45 Widgets: The Web in a TV-centric Experience Francois Bedard- LVL STUDIO
2:15 PON Trends & TV Signal Distribution Fred Leonberger - MIT 
2:45 IPTV Overview Sam Ganesan - Motorola 
3:15 BREAK
Session 4: EQUIPMENT, NETWORKS, & SERVICES II
3:30

TV  Distribution by Carriers

Rajesh Yadav - Verizon
4:00

Next Generation CATV

Roy Hasson - Huawei
4:30 Mobile TV Sashikumar Venkataraman - Veveo
5:00 WRAP-UP
 
 
 

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Accommodations

Use Booking Code MIT-CIPS at the Cambridge Hyatt Regency until Jan 9, 2009,

Cambridge Le Meridien, &

the Kendall Hotel, Kendall Sq until December 30, 2008

for an additional discount rate

Other Hotel Accommodations*

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*be sure to ask for MIT discount rate
 

For more information

 please contact:

 Fred Leonberger

 fleonberger@rle.mit.edu

 or

 Cathy Bourgeois

 cmbourg@mit.edu

 

 

 

 



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