Broadcast Quality

This Seminar addressed decision-makers as well as engineers for a better understanding of each other's constraints and requirements in audiovisual quality. The presentations given at this event:

2 October
Why Quality is important		Phil Laven (EBU)
Strategy: trade-offs between quality, cost & bandwidth		John Ive (Consultant)
How to engineer Quality? What is done today?		Kevin Murray (NOS)
Different quality for different platforms		Ralf Schaefer (Thomson)
MPEG and ITU		Rainer Schaefer (IRT)
SMPTE		avier Pouyat (Microsoft)
New video codecs: manufacturers's challenges		Giles Wilson
Multichannel audio compression		Gerhard Stoll (IRT)
Sound quality & the use of synthetic app.		Stefan Meltzer (Coding Technologies)

3 October
Display technology & perceived video quality		Dave Bancroft
Video display signal processing		Gerard de Haan (Philips)
Audiovisual quality on the move		Miska Hannuksela (Nokia)
Consumer displays: Do they provide good SD & ID pict?		Roy Brooker (Research & Testing Centre)
2006 world cup coverage in Europe		Per Boehler (NRK)
Optimum relationship between Audio & Video quality		Ricardo Pastrana Vidal (France Telecom)
Small screens on trial: DVB-H & DMB on mobile TV		Jon Holden-Dye (Arqiva)
BBC experiences on HDTV rollout		John Zubrzycki (BBC)