AES Los Angeles 2014
Broadcast & Streaming Media Track Event B4
Friday, October 10, 9:00 am — 11:00 am (Room 408 A)
Broadcast and Streaming Media: B4 - Audio Issues for 4k and 8k Television
Chair:Fred Willard, Univision - Washington, DC, USA
Panelists:
Robert Bleidt, Fraunhofer USA Digital Media Technologies - San Jose, CA, USA
Tim Carroll, Telos Alliance - Lancaster, PA, USA
Thomas Lund, TC Electronic A/S - Risskov, Denmark
David McIntyre, DTS Inc. - Calabasas, CA, USA
Skip Pizzi, NAB - Washington DC, USA
Jeff Riedmiller, Dolby Laboratories - San Francisco, CA USA
Abstract:
The session will touch on the tools and practical experience of realizing the promise of the ultra resolution visual-aural experience and the standardization considerations of bonding the two in a single production-to-consumer format. 2014 has so far seen practical production, encoding, and transmission of 4k and 8k and its equivalent quality audio complement with the Sochi Olympics and the World Cup games in Brazil. Implementation of compression formats, auto scalability, and backwards compatibility are topics of discussion. Re-imagined production techniques and workflows; transmission, interface, and playback standards are still in development. The extended localization, multi-directivity, three dimensional acoustic space generation, and increased optimal listening zones for audio for 4K and 8K will likely provoke end user acceptance with creation of a unified reproduction of reality immersion experience in a single format.
