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Audio Delivery: the changing home experience
15-16 April 2002
Church House, Westminster, London |
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Monday 15th April 2002 |
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Session 1: Introduction and Overview 9:45 - 11:00
Chairman: Kendall Castor-Perry
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| What is all the fuss about? | Kendall Castor-Perry
Texas Instruments, UK |
| Where is consumer audio going? - perspectives of a major supplier | Andrew Hingley
Sony Broadcast, UK |
| Home networking – an installers view | Bruce Elliott
Residential Systems Integrator, UK |
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| COFFEE 11:00 - 11:30 |
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Session 2: Is this the end for physical delivery? 11:30 - 13:00
Chairman: Mark Yonge
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| Making a business out of online music services | John Gildersleeve
Tornado Group, UK |
| Disks - new formats bring life to optical media | Tony Faulkner
Green Room Productions, UK |
| The challenges and rewards of online music delivery | Barney Wragg
Universal Music Group, UK |
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| LUNCH 13:00 - 14:30 |
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Session 3: New gateways into the home 14:30 - 16:00
Chairman: Paul Troughton
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| The set-top box home gateway | Chris Boyce
Pace Micro Technology, UK |
| Windows media technologies in consumer electronics, past, present and future | Mats Myrberg
Microsoft, USA |
| Powerline networking - a new approach | Tony Martin
nSine, UK |
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| TEA 16:00 - 16:30 |
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Session 4: Home networks for audio 16:30 - 18:00
Chairman: Steve Harris
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| Multi-channel audio delivery and playback on home networks | Vivek Thakur
Texas Instruments, USA |
| Home networking using IEEE 1394 in combination with other networking technologies | Bob Moses
BridgeCo, Switzerland |
| Between IEEE 1394 silicon and the market | David King
CTG, UK |
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| LONDON EYE VISIT (optional) 19:00-19:30 |
Tuesday 16th April 2002 |
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Session 5: Copy protection & rights management 9:00 - 11:00
Chairman: Paul Troughton
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| Secure content - the key to profits | Talal Shamoon
InterTrust, USA |
| Why rights are important | Peter Filleul
APRS, UK |
| Who manages whose rights? | Julian Midgeley
FIPR, UK |
| Protecting music - putting the worms back in the can | Paul Jessop
IFPI, UK |
| Open discussion of rights management |
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| COFFEE 11:00 - 11:30 |
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Session 6: Quality - are they pulling the wool over our ears? 11:30 - 13:00
Chairman: Steve Harris
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| Audio subsystem design for workstations and personal computers | Michael Poimboeuf
Digidesign, USA |
| Programme loudness and audio dynamic range in the home | Tony Spath
Dolby Laboratories, UK |
| Internet audio quality and the MUSHRA test | Martin Link
IRT, Germany |
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| LUNCH 13:00 - 14:30 |
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Session 7: Some examples of the new wave in audio 14:30 - 16:00
Chairman: Kendall Castor-Perry
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| Designing consumer audio products to address changing lifestyles | Brian Towne
Kenwood, USA |
| Convenient multi-channel sound in the home | Paul Troughton
1Limited, UK |
| Playing with sound: audio hardware and software on Xbox | Brian Schmidt
Microsoft, USA |
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| TEA 16:00 - 16:30 |
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Session 8: Where do we go from here? 16:30 - 17:30
Chairman: Mark Yonge
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| TV-Anytime - using all that extra data | Andrew McParland
BBC Research and Development, UK |
| Will it still be hi-fi as we know it? | Keith Howard
Hi-Fi News, UK |
| Interactive Discussion Session |
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Further information
For further information, please click here.
For a registration form, please click here.
For information on hotel booking, please click here. |
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The organisers reserve the right to alter the programme without notice |
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