DVB World 2007 International Conference
Dublin, 7th - 9th March,
2007
“New Opportunities - New Standards”
Conference Programme
Day 1 – Wednesday 7th March 2007
| 09.00 – 13.00 |
Registration |
Keynote Session
Chair: George
Waters (International Academy of Broadcasting)
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| 13.00 – 13.05 |
OPENING REMARKS
George
Waters (IAB) |
| 13.05 – 13.15 |
THE STATE OF THE DVB PROJECT
Theo
Peek (Chair, DVB Project; Philips) |
| 13.15 – 14.00 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Vincent
Dureau (Head of TV Technology, Google) |
Flagship Presentations
Chair: Helmut
Stein (Chair, DVB Promotions & Communications Module)
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| 14.00 – 14.30 |
THE BIGGEST TV MARKET IN THE WORLD - CHINA
Ma
Ju (Academy of Broadcasting Science, Beijing) |
| 14.30 – 15.00 |
IS THERE A FUTURE FOR OPEN STANDARDS?
Recent events surrounding high profile discussions between patent
pool representatives and potential licensees has sparked a debate
on the link between IPR licensing and standardisation:
- What constitutes a responsble approach to this?
- Is there a future for the open standards based approach?
Philip
Laven (Technical Director, European Broadcasting Union) |
| 15.00 – 15.30 |
COFFEE BREAK and EXHIBITION
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| 15.30 – 16.00 |
THE FUTURE OF BROADCASTING - A DVB TIMELINE
DVB's mainstay is the suite of digital television downstream delivery
systems:
- What work is underway in the terrestrial and satellite domains
to update the core delivery systems?
- Is there a longer term view on how the DVB Project should progress
in these key areas?
- What does DVB see as its role in IPTV and broadband delivery
systems in general?
Ulrich
Reimers (Chair, DVB Technical Module; Technical University
Braunschweig) |
| 16.00 – 16.30 |
ALLOCATING THE DIGITAL DIVIDEND
The European broadcast industry is now looking towards analogue
switch-off:
- What might the post-analogue TV scenario look like in key European
territories?
- What types of service may wish to acquire UHF spectrum?
- What technical compatibility issues might these potential uses
raise?
Greg
Bensberg (Ofcom, UK) |
| 16.30 – 1700 |
HDTV: STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
HDTV has arrived in Europe, driven in part by key sporting events
throughout 2006:
- What does the future hold?
- Is there a future for ultra-HD?
- Is HD all it's cracked up to be?
- How does DVB fit in?
Ken
McCann (Zetacast) |
Day 2 – Thursday 8th March
2007
09.00 Moving DVB-H Onwards
Chair: Ulrich
Reimers (Chair, DVB Technical Module; Technical University
Braunschweig) |
| 09.10 – 09.45 |
DVB-H IN NORTH AMERICA
The North American DVB-H market promises to be one of the most
complex in terms of interoperability and service offering:
- What does the market face?
- What needs to happen and who's doing it?
Yoram
Solomon (President, Mobile DTV Alliance; Texas Instruments) |
| 09.45 – 10.20 |
BUSINESS MODELS & OPPORTUNITIES
Spain is another pioneer in the DVB-H field, and has innovative
approaches to the broadcaster/mobile network operator relationships:
- Who determines the balance of the BNO/MNO relationship?
- What challenges/opportunities are there for DVB-H?
Alex
Mestre (Abertis Telecom) |
| 10.20 – 10.50 |
COFFEE BREAK and EXHIBITION
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| 10.50 – 11.25 |
THE BIG CHALLENGE: FINDING FREQUENCIES IN EUROPE
New mobile TV services need access to the limited supply of suitable
frequencies to succeed:
- In such a crowded frequency environment, what are the possibilities?
- Is roaming ever going to happen in practice?
- To what extent is industry co-operating with the European institutions
in this regard?
Sheila
Cassells (BskyB) |
| 11.25 – 12.00 |
ITALY - LEADING THE WAY WITH DVB-H
Italy boasts the world's first two commercial DVB-H networks:
- Is the service meeting expectations?
- What lessons have been learned?
Alessandro
Floris (Director of Digital Mobile TV, 3 Italia) |
| 12.00 – 12.45 |
ISDB-T MOBILE TV IN JAPAN - A MODEL CASE STUDY?
Free-to-air mobile TV services started in Japan in March 2006:
- What is the customer reaction to the services?
- How does the relationship between FTA broadcasting and the MNO
work?
- Does the service generate increased ARPU for the MNO or revenue
for the FTA broadcaster?
Tomoyuki
Okamura (Fuji Television Network Inc.) |
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QUESTION TIME |
| 12.45 – 14.00 |
NETWORKING LUNCH and EXHIBITION
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14.00 Demystifying IPTV
Chair: Graham
Mills (Chair, DVB Commercial Module; BT) |
| 14.10 –14.45 |
"IPTV FOR DUMMIES"
IPTV is a hot topic, but what exactly is it?
Ralf
Schaefer (Chair, DVB CM-IPTV Group; Thomson) |
| 14.45 – 15.20 |
ROLLING OUT IPTV
With the advent of high-Speed ADSL, IPTV has arrived as a viable
commercial offering:
- What are the experiences of the pioneers?
- What commercial offering works best?
- Is standardisation important?
Benjamin
Schwarz (Head of Technology Development Programme, France
Telecom) |
| 15.20 – 15.50 |
COFFEE BREAK and EXHIBITION
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| 15.50 – 16.25 |
THE INTERNET VIDEO PHENOMENON - WHAT CAN WE LEARN?
The popularity of sites such as YouTube and Google Video has taken
the industry by surprise:
- What can the "traditional" DTV industry learn from
these experiences?
- What are they doing right?
- Is the rest of the industry doing anything wrong?
- Does the growth of P2P represent a threat to the established
DTV industry?
Bernino
Lind (SunStream.tv) |
| 16.25 – 17.00 |
STANDARDISING IPTV - THE DVB APPROACH
DVB is pioneering a standards-based IPTV approach:
- What is DVB's broad approach?
- What has DVB done in Phases 1, 1.5 and 2?
- What's next?
Kevin
Murray (NDS) |
| 1700 – 17.30 |
INTERACTIVITY, IPTV AND MHP
MHP is DVB's open interactive television system and IPTV promises
much for interactive services:
- Is there room for an open Java based middleware system in IPTV
environments?
- What needs to happen to MHP to make it work here?
Paul
Bristow (Chief Technical Officer, Osmosys) |
Day 3 – Friday 9th March 2007
09.00 Future Delivery Systems - New Opportunities
Chair: David
Wood (Head of New Media, EBU)
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| 09.10 – 09.40 |
SATELLITE SERVICES TO HANDHELD DEVICES
DVB-SH is the latest addition to the DVB-H family of mobile TV specifications:
- What does the system look like?
- How will DVB-H, DVB-SH and DVB-IPDC work together?
- What are the plans for SH going forward?
Philip
Kelley (Alcatel-Lucent) |
| 09.40 – 10.10 |
WHY DO WE NEED T2?
Broadcasters are looking towards digital switchover and the prospect
of next generation terrestrial systems:
- What commercial issues will broadcasters and network operators
face if they wish to incorporate HD into their DVB-T transmissions?
- What technical factors will impact on the commercial viability
of such services?
- Are we likely to see an increased interest in using DVB-T to provide
mobile services?
Mike
Brooks (Arqiva) |
| 10.10 – 10.40 |
DTT - WHAT IS THE STATE OF THE ART?
Technology has moved on since DVB first developed a specification
for DTT:
- What are the candidate technologies for inclusion in DVB-T2?
- Can we learn anything from experiences in China, Japan and elsewhere?
- What radical options are also available?
- How can we find the best balance between future-proofing and backwards
compatibility?
Klaus
Illgner (IRT) |
| 10.40 – 11.10 |
COFFEE BREAK and EXHIBITION
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| 11.10 – 11.40 |
BROADCAST AND BROADBAND - THE PERFECT COMBINATION?
Terrestrial digital television based on DVB-T is growing in popularity
all over Europe and beyond; increased penetration for broadband
is opening up new possibilities:
- What further innovations are likely in terrestrial markets?
- What's the best way of combining terrestrial broadcast and broadband
networks to deliver such services?
William
Cooper (informitv) |
| 11.40 – 12.40 |
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION:
- Backwards compatibility
- HDTV/Mobile - how to mix them
- COFDM vs. single carrier
- Is IP taking over?
Philip
Kelley (Alcatel-Lucent)
Mike
Brooks (Arqiva)
Klaus
Illgner (IRT)
William
Cooper (informitv)
Alex
Mestre (Abertis Telecom) |
| 12.40 – 13.00 |
THE WRAP - what have we learned and where are we going?
David
Wood (EBU) |
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