/ 09.13.2010 12:00AM
ATSC Plans Mobile DTV Seminar
WASHINGTON: The Advanced Television Systems Committee is
readying for its 2010 Mobile DTV Seminar, which is scheduled for Oct. 7 at the
Wiley Rein Conference Center in downtown Washington, D.C.
The event will feature presentations by a number of major players in Mobile
DTV, including Sterling Davis of Cox Media, Mark Aitken of the Sinclair
Broadcast Group, Rich Chernock or Triveni Digital, Tim Carroll of Linear
Acoustic, Joel Wilhite of Harmonic, Mike Bergman of Kenwood, Merrill Weiss of
the Merrill Weiss Group, and Robin Wilson of Nagravision. Jay Adrick of the
Harris Group will be on hand to moderate sessions and Mark Richer, ATSC
president, will coordinate the day’s activities.
Topics include an update on the Washington, D.C. Mobile DTV trial, audio
considerations for the new service, new STL technologies, service protection,
compression systems, implementation of Mobile DTV service, and more.
The event will run from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with on-site registration starting
at 8 a.m. Complete information is available on the organization’s Web site,
www.atsc.org.
The ATSC, in conjunction with the Society of Broadcast Engineers, is also
hosting a Mobile DTV Webinar from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ET on Sept. 23. Additional
information on this event is available at
www.sbe.org/ATSCMobileDTVWebinar.php. --
from TV Technology