LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Organisers of the Global Broadcast Summit (GBS), today announced that the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the worldwide leader in standards and education for the communications, media, and entertainment industries, will host a session on emerging media technologies during the event which takes place in London from 28-29 November 2012.
The session will be based on the Society’s Forum on Emerging Media Technology, an executive-level symposium which was held earlier this week in Geneva. The program, produced in collaboration with the European Broadcast Union, focused on the most important innovation likely to take place over the next 10 to 15 years in the broadcast, broadband, and cinema sectors.
As part of her closing remarks at the SMPTE Forum, which drew leading motion-imaging technologists, researchers, scientists, practitioners, manufacturers, and strategic thinkers from around the world, the Society’s Executive Director Barbara Lange announced the intention to carry on the conversation at the GBS.
“SMPTE is pleased to participate in the GBS and to provide the broadcast industry’s leaders with a science-based, non-commercial perspective into the emerging technologies and standards that are remaking the digital media ecosystem. This is an important conversation and we are happy to support the GBS in its leadership of it,” said Lange.
Taking place on day one of the Global Broadcast Summit, topics at the SMPTE session will include making the right investments amid changing platforms, rapidly proliferating devices, and new consumer preferences to future-proof content.
The GBS which will bring together, by invitation only, Chief Executives of the world’s leading broadcasters as well as regulators and government officials to debate and discuss the global broadcast industry from a business strategy, economic, technology and regulatory perspective.
GBS Director Tom Wragg said, “We are delighted to have SMPTE on board for the first GBS Summit. The work of organisations like SMPTE is seminal to the development of the broadcast industry and SMPTE in particular plays a very important role in that. We are really pleased they have chosen to participate in GBS as the technology experts.”
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About SMPTE
The Oscar® Award-winning and Emmy® Award-winning Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) is the leading technical society for the motion imaging industry. As an internationally recognized and accredited standards-setting body, SMPTE develops standards, recommended practices and guidelines, and spearheads educational activities to advance engineering and moving imagery. Since its founding in 1916, the Society has established close to 600 standards, including the physical dimensions of 35mm film and the SMPTE-time code. More recently, it crafted the Digital Cinema Standards, which paved the way for digital movie theaters.