The 3rd International Conference ‘From IT to HD’
29-30 November 2006

INTRODUCTION

IT to HD is the third in a series of events bringing professionals together to network, debate, discuss and inform on matters of technical developments and issues in their chosen field.

The event will focus on recent development and applications in the field of Multimedia Technology enabling those working in the field to bring themselves up to date with the current key issues and changes in the industry. It will cover trends in:

• HD standards and equipment to utilise them such as 1080p and HDV applications.
• Applications of HD in acquisition
• Postproduction and transmission.
• Projection systems
• Pixel issues
• Distribution
• Content protection
• New recording formats for HDD and solid state
• The application of IT in broadcast systems
• IP applications
• Networks
• File transfers data rates and capacity to transfer video up to D-cinema quality
• Physical network advances in fibre
• The role of the telco and the Internet for home content delivery
• Video over mobile and hand held systems
• Quality issues for HD networking such as jitter

The event will also include papers from the IBC 2006 conference and updates on subjects that have been highlighted both at NAB and IBC.