The next meeting is at 7:30 pm on June 20th and the meeting will be held at the Linwood Dunn Theater, 1313 N. Vine Street, Hollywood. Free parking is available behind the building.

Topic: Portable Media - Content & Delivery

Industry experts will be on hand to discuss different aspects of this new and evolving business, from a broad perspective.  We'll hear about the required differences in content and the technical challenges with the delivery of said content on multiple devices (phone, IPod, games) in brief presentations followed by a panel discussion and Q/A from the audience.

Presenters included:


Frank Chindamo - CCO Fun Little Movies (Content creation specifically for phones/mobile media, business overview)

Drew Mabry -  Nero (leading software provider for consumer use, development of new tools for portable media)

Roy Stewart - Ascent Media, Digital Encoding Services (technical issues associated with moving content to the audience, on multiple media)

Mike Pucetari -  VP Engineering, Disney * ABC Television Group (practical issues involved with creating portable media from traditional digital media workflows - transcoding content to the right format as well as metadata, XML conversion, DRM, storage and network/transport)

Jonathan Ackley - Senior Technical Staff, Walt Disney Imagineering R&D Inc. (New types of media enabled by mobile video technology; changes in the content creation process for new media; mobile media working with or enhancing existing media channels)
 

Many thanks to Sprint and Dolby for sponsoring the evening's refreshments beginning at 6:30 p.m.
 

               

 

 

 

 
 

 

                                                                         

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