Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM
Monday, November 28, 2011 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium
Skip Pizzi
"Broadcast Television: What's on the Horizon"
ABSTRACT -- The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), developer of the digital terrestrial broadcast television system in use by the U.S. and other countries today, is currently engaged in multiple efforts aimed at extending the capabilities of DTV. One initiative, entitled "ATSC 2.0," involves a number of compatible enhancements to existing ATSC transmissions, including possible additions of 3D TV, Internet-enhanced TV, and various capabilities for personalization, interactivity, accessibility and "second screen" or "Social TV" services. A separate process is planning for a future transition to the next generation of broadcast TV, by which a wholly new system (called "ATSC 3.0") would be launched to ultimately replace and further extend the current ATSC format. Learn what's planned for both ATSC 2.0 and 3.0 in this forward-looking session on the future of DTV
SPEAKER -- Skip Pizzi is Director of Digital Strategies in the Technology department of the National Association of Broadcasters.
His career has spanned the broadcast and new media industries, as an engineer and technology manager at NPR and Microsoft, with over a decade of experience at each. He also spent seven years as technical editor at Broadcast Engineering magazine.
Skip is a consultant to many U.S. and international broadcasters, government agencies, educational institutions, foundations and manufacturers. This work has included representation of Fraunhofer IIS (originators of MP3 and AAC coding) and other technology companies in various standards development organizations.
He is the author of two books, and a contributor to several others, including the NAB Engineering Handbook and other technical reference books. He has also been a frequent contributor to technical journals in the broadcast and new-media fields.
Skip is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied Electrical Engineering, International Economics and Fine Arts, and he was recently named Vice-Chair of the new ATSC Technology Group 3 (TG3), which will develop standards for the next generation of digital television broadcasting.