Welcometo the 11th annual

Technology Retreat

(which is the 10th anniversary, of course)!

Introduction

• No mobile-phone conversations

• My watch rules, so come early

• Sign up to play or cheer Thursday night

• Quiz entries: write name and quiz #

• Door prize Friday, presence required

• Wander in and out as you please

• You are here

Acquisition•Digital Cinematography:

– Kinetta – hand crank– Panavision Genesis – tomorrow

•HD:– Tiny - Luma– High-speed:

•120 fps – GV Thomson, Ikegami•1000 fps – Cine SpeedCam, Photron, Vision Research

•Lenses:– Panavision 300x7– Fujinon CCD focus assist

Storage

• One new videotape format:– HDV 1080i

• Next-generation optical:– Both Blu-ray and HD DVD hybrids with DVD

• Flash:– Thomson Venom uncompressed

Processing

• What’s MPEG-4 Part 2?

• AVC taking off, VC-1 getting ready

• DCI JPEG2000

Distribution

• Satellite: – Ka & advanced compression; Voom bust

• CableCARD: – Millions of slots, thousands deployed

• Telco:– Popular in Europe; SBC & Verizon here

• DTT:– LG 5th-generation works; no STB

Presentation

• Displays:– PDP 2003 70% HD, 2004 40% HD– DLP RP approaching $2000; LCoS?– 125-degree deflection CRTs– All 36-inch (& most 32 & 27) 4:3– OLED? SED?

• HD in U.S.:– Display: 9.5%; Source: 3.4%

Numbers• NAB: ~25% (73M) of TVs are unconnected• NCTA: 141M of subscriber TVs have no box• CEA penetrations:

2002 2003 2004 2005 TV, Color TV, Radio 98% 98% 98% 98%

VCR 94% 92% 91% 88%

DVD 25% 35% 60% 75%

Monochrome TV 40% 39% 37% 33%

Home Theater Sound System 25% 28% 32% 33%

TV/VCR combos 22% 23% 27% 30%

Projection TV 15% 18% 19% 20%

LCD 12% 13% 14% 17%