A partial list...
| Nov 17, 2015,
Newport Beach, CA APEX Technology Conference |
Speaker: Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) Common File Format (CFF) | |
| Feb 20, 2013, Indian Wells, CA HPA Tech Retreat |
Panelist: Consumer Forecast: Cloudy but Clearing Co-panelists: Seth Hallen - Testronic Labs [moderator], Chris Carey - Verizon Digital Media Services, Steven Chester - Akamai, John Crosier - Cinram. Ellen Goodridge - Sony Pictures Entertainment) |
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| Sep 5, 2012, London, UK Academy on UltraViolet - DEG/MESA |
Speaker: UltraViolet Demystified | |
| Jun 18, 2012, London, UK London Video Rendezvous |
Speaker: UltraViolet:
The Cloud - a silver lining? Co-panelists: Lesley Johnson - BBC, Maria Ingold - Mireality, Bob Auger - Newmérique) |
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| May 17, 2012, Los Angeles, CA Academy on UltraViolet - DEG/MESA |
Speaker: DRM Demystified | |
| Apr 19, 2012 Las Vegas, NV Packaged Media and Beyond 2012 |
Speaker: Clouds on the Horizon - Online Entertainment & UltraViolet | |
| Feb 16, 2012, Indian Wells, CA HPA Tech Retreat |
Speaker: Content-Consumption Ecosystems - Obscured by Clouds | |
| Jan 9, 2012, Las Vegas, NV CES/Storage Visions |
Panelist: The Long and Winding Tail: Content Delivery Where
Ever and When Ever (Co-panelists: David Doering - TechVoice [moderator], James Myers - Intel, Jeff Hastings - Brightsign, Andy Lawrence - xStream Technology, Jay Elliot - Nuvel) |
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| Apr 6, 2011, Palo
Alto, CA Digital Entertainment 2.0 Executive Brainstorm |
Panelist: 2011: The Year of the Digital Locker | |
| Mar, 2011, Las
Vegas, NV Packaged Media 2011 - MEDIA-TECH/Colonial Purchasing |
Speaker: Transitioning from physical to electronic content delivery | |
| Jan 7, 2011,
Las Vegas, NV International CES |
Panelist: Kings of
Convergence (Co-panelists: Becky Worley - ABC [moderator], Paul Daugherty - Accenture, Kuk Yi - Best Buy, Jonathan Zuck - Association for Competitive Technology) |
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| Oct 21, 2010,
London, UK The Future of Digital Media Distribution |
Panelist: The battle
for the connected living room (Co-panelists: Ben Keen and Dan Cryan [moderators] - Screen Digest, Jeremy Allaire - Brightcove, Sarah Milton - Channel Four, Vikas Gupta - Transgaming, Alex Green - VirginMedia ) |
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| Apr 11, 2010,
Las Vegas, NV NAB Show 2010 |
Panelist: 3D TV
Distribution: Which Platform(s) Will Succeed? (Co-panelists: Patrick Griffis [moderator] - Dolby, Chris Johns - B Sky B, David Broberg - CableLabs, Mark Richer - ATSC, Tony Jasionowski - Panasonic) |
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| Mar 10-11,
2010, London PEVE Digital Entertainment 2010 |
Speaker:
Unlocking Interoperability - Will Initiatives Like DECE Work? (Co-speaker: Tim Wright - Sony Pictures Entertainment) Panelist: Getting Digital Content to the Consumer (Co-panelists: Dan Cryan [moderator] - Screen Digest, Arash Amel [moderator] - Screen Digest, Tom Cordiner - Technicolor, Jerry Johnson - Xbox, Ariff Sidi - ABC Digital Media, Joe Trainor - Level 3 Communications) |
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| Feb 17, 2010, Rancho Mirage, CA HPA Tech Retreat |
Panelist: Future of Packaged Media: Kiosks vs. Brick &
Mortar (Co-panelists: Steve Cohen, Raging River [moderator], Ratnakar Lavu - Redbox, Tim Hogan - DVD Station, Jens U Horstmann - NCR, Howell Ivy - Raging River) |
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| Jan 2010, Las Vegas, NV CES/Storage Visions |
Speaker: The Future of Content Delivery | |
| Nov 5, 2009,
Palo Alto, CA German American Business Association (GABA) |
Panelist: The Future of Home Entertainment (Co-panelists: Steffen Bartschat [moderator] - Sonic, Todd Collart - Deluxe Digital Studios, Jeff Klugman - TiVo, Michael McGuire - Gartner, Jerry Pierce - AZEC, Roland Vlaicu - Dolby) |
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| Oct 14, 2009,
London, UK Streaming Media Europe 2009 |
Panelist: Reaching Multiple Screen Convergence: Streaming
to the PC, Mobile, Television, and Gaming Devices (Co-panelists: Martin Sutherland [moderator] - Vantrix, Pierre-Yves Le Berre - Anevia, James A Neufeld - never.no) |
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| Aug 5, 2008,
San Jose, CA Digital Hollywood/CEA Building Blocks 2008 |
Panelist: The NexGen Entertainment Home Experience - From the Smart & Connected TV
to the PVR, Set-Top & PC Experience (Co-panelists: Rick Doherty - The Envisioneering Group [Moderator], JT Taylor - Cisco, Richard Carriere - Nero, John Gildred - SyncTV, Vic Odryna - ZeeVee, Michael Spilo - NETGEAR, David Adams - RallyPoint ) |
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| May 7, 2008,
Hollywood, CA Digital Hollywood Spring 2008 |
Interview: The Future of DVD and Blu-ray | |
| Apr 18, 2008,
Paris, France PEVE Digital Entertainment Conference |
Panelist: Defining
the Future of Packaged Media: What Next for Blu-ray? (Co-panelists: Tom Adams [moderator] - Adams Media Research, Jean-Michel Cathonnet - Cinram, Frank Simonis - Blu-ray Disc Association, David Stevens - 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Michael Gutowski - Infodisc Technology) |
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| Apr 17, 2008,
Paris, France PEVE Digital Entertainment Conference |
Panelist: The Role
of Manufacturing-on-Demand in Extending the Long Tail (Co-panelists: Helen Davis Jayalath [moderator] - Screen Digest, Anthony Bay - MOD Systems, Daniel Doll-Steinberg - Tribeka, Marcus Stewart Vannini, Eros International) |
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| Mar 5, 2008,
Miami, FL Media-Tech Conference 2008 |
Speaker: Qflix - Another Revenue Avenue | |
| Jan 8, 2008,
Las Vegas, NV International CES |
Panelist:
Downloading and Streaming HD over the Air-Home Video's Future (Co-panelists: Wilson Rothman [moderator] - Gizmodo, Betsy Scolnik - National Geographic Digital Media, Jim Wuthrich, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Mark Pascarella - Gotuit Media, Patrick Cosson - Vudu) |
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| Oct 11, 2006,
Long Beach, CA Media-Tech Showcase and Conference '06 |
Keynote: Next Generation DVD Formats: What it Takes to Make a Title | |
| Aug 15, 2006,
Beverly Hills, CA DisplaySearch HDTV Conference 2006: The Future of Television |
Panelist:
Outlook for High-Definition DVD Players - What Does the Adoption Curve Look
Like? (Co-panelists: Ross Young - DisplaySearch [moderator], Mark Knox - Toshiba, Jeff Goldstein - Sony, Eisuke Tsuyuzaki - Panasonic) |
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| Aug 7, 2006,
Universal City, CA DVD Forum North American DVD Conference |
Speaker: End-to-End Authoring | |
| Mar 29, 2006,
Los Angeles, CA Digital Hollywood |
Moderator: The DVD
Association Workshops - Part II Next Generation DVD - Content Makers (Co-panelists: Bruce Nazarian - Digital Media Consulting Group, Kevin Collins - Microsoft, Steve Venezia - Dolby Labs, Joseph McCrossan - Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory, Morgan Holly - Ascent Media, Jim Burger - Dow, Lohnes & Albertson) |
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| Jan 2006, Las Vegas, NV Storage Visions |
Speaker: Mixed Media - The Blurring Line Between Virtual and Physical | |
| Dec, 2005, Los Angeles, CA DV Expo West |
Moderator: HD DVD
and Blu-ray (Co-panelists: Andy Parsons - Pioneer, Duncan Wain - Comchoice, Bruce Nazarian - Gnome Digital) |
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| Nov, 2005 McGraw-Hill |
Book: DVD
Demystified, 3nd Edition With co-authors Mark Johnson and Charles Crawford |
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| Sep 28, 2005,
San Francisco, CA OSTA OSS |
Panelist: Imaging
Interoperability Between CE Devices - How Do We Get There? (Co-panelists: Parker Lee - OSTA Chair [Moderator], Dr. Mark Tarlton - Motorola Labs, George Lynch - HP) |
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| Jan 6 & 7,
2005, Las Vegas, NV International CES |
Speaker: DVD Demystified, Take 2: The Upcoming HD DVD Formats | |
| Jan 5, 2005,
Las Vegas, NV International CES |
Speaker: The Future of DVD | |
| Dec 8, 2004,
Los Angeles, CA DV Expo West |
Speaker: The Future of DVD | |
| Oct 19, 2004,
San Francisco, CA OSTA OSS |
Moderator: Managing
the Digital File Explosion (Co-panelists: Kevin Woolery - Buzznet, Melani DiNapoli - Gracenote, Bill Holmes - DivX Networks, Richard Mandeberg - Mirra) |
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| May 6, 2004,
Dallas, TX Connections - The Digital Home Conference and Showcase |
Panel speaker: DRM:
How to Ensure that “Anti-Piracy” Does Not Become “Anti-Consumer” (Co-panelists: Jeff Joseph - CEA [co-moderator], Kurt Scherf - Parks Associates [co-moderator], Mohan Atreya - RSA Security, Brad Auerbach - DVD Audio Council, Donald Leake - IBM Research, Brian Tucker - Intel Corporation) |
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| Jan 9, 2004,
Las Vegas, NV International CES |
Panel speaker:
Making Music and Movies Mobile (Co-panelists: Tekla Perry - IEEE Spectrum [moderator], Tim Bratton - RealNetworks, Tom Mock - Wye Consulting, Dave Singer - Apple Computer) |
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| Nov 21, 2003,
Beverly Hills, CA DVD Forum 2003 U.S. Conference |
Panel speaker:
Future of DVD (Co-panelists: Peter Kastner - Aberdeen Group [moderator], Brian Heuckroth - Cirrus Logic, Matt Jarman - ClearPlay) |
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| Nov 2-3, 2003,
Carribean Home Theater Cruise |
Panel speaker: The
Future Of Prerecorded HD (Co-panelists: Gary Reber - Widescreen Review [moderator], Joe Kane - Joe Kane Productions, Rick Dean - THX, Richard Webb - Pixonics) Panel speaker: Copy Protection & A/V Interfaces (Co-panelists: Gary Reber - Widescreen Review [moderator], Alen Koebel - Christie Digital Systems, Demian Martin - consultant, Brett Gaines - Silicon Image and HDMI Licensing, John Tunnell - Consumer Electronics Association) Q & A Session (Participants: Gary Reber - Widescreen Review [moderator], Al Schmitt - Bop City Records, Alan Parsons - recording engineer and producer, and music artist, Alen Koebel - Christie Digital Systems, Art Noxon - Acoustic Sciences Corporation, Bob Hodas - audio acoustics professional and recording engineer, Bobby Owsinski - Surround Associates, Brett Gaines - Silicon Image and HDMI Licensing, Brian Towne - DTS, Demian Martin - consultant, Dennis Erskine - Design Cinema Privee, Don Stewart - Stewart Filmscreen, Dr. William Bleha - JVC North America R&D Center, Elliot Scheiner - Bop City Records, Gerry Lemay - Quest Acoustical Interiors and Home Acoustics Alliance (HAA), Herman Cárdenas - NetStreams, James Wellnitz - Accurate Imaging Technologies, Jason Thompson - Texas Instruments, Jim Burns - Burns Digital Consultants, Joe Kane - Joe Kane Productions, John Tunnell - Consumer Electronics Association, Norm Varney - A/V RoomService, Perry Sun - Widescreen Review, Phil Ramone - recording producer and engineer, Richard Webb - Pixonics, Rick Dean - THX, Robert Margouleff - MiCasa Multimedia) |
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| Nov, 2003 McGraw-Hill |
Book: Everything
You Ever Wanted to Know About DVD A print version of Jim's acclaimed Internet DVD FAQ. |
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| Oct 14, 2003, Carlsbad, CA OSTA Optical Storage Symposium |
Panel moderator:
Capturing Content (Co-panelists: John Godwin - Movielink , Avi Greengart - Jupiter Research, Jeff Klugman - Tivo, John Minakais - 321 Studios) |
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| Oct 13, 2003, Carlsbad, CA OSTA Optical Storage Symposium/CEA Industry Forum |
Panel speaker:
What's Fueling the Digital Video Recording Fire? (Co-panelists: Maciek Brzeski - Toshiba [moderator], Felix Nemirovsky - Chuba Consulting, Sean Wargo - Consumer Electronics Association, Sean Stead - Samsung America) |
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| Oct 6, 2003, Tokyo, Japan Zoran Driving the Digital Lifestyle |
Panel speaker:
Software Applications (Co-panelists: Tim Bajarin - Creative Strategies [moderator], Todd Rumaner - ArcSoft) |
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| May 8, 2003, New Orleans, LA Microsoft WinHEC 2003 |
Panel speaker: The
WinHEC 2003 Writable DVD Panel (Co-panelists: David Bunzel, OSTA [moderator], Tony Jasionowski, Panasonic, Andy Parsons, Pioneer, Frank Simonis, Philips) |
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| Feb 6, 2003, San Jose, CA DCD Expo |
Panel speaker:
WebDVD Hybrids and How to Create Them (Co-panelists: Bryant Frazer - PBI [moderator], Todd Collart - InterActual) Speaker: High Density Road Map: Where Do the New Optical Formats Fit in Tomorrow’s Distribution Scenarios |
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| Jan 11, 2003, Las Vegas, CA International CES |
Panel speaker:
Recordable DVD: Say So Long to Tape? (Co-panelists: Jimmy Schaeffler - The Carmel Group [moderator], Dean Sanderson - Hewlett-Packard, Joseph Stinziano - Sony Electronics, Ken Soohoo - Planetweb) |
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| Jan 2003, Las Vegas, NV Storage Visions |
Speaker: The Future of Storage - How Will I Get It? Where Will I Put It? | |
| Dec 9, 2002, Los Angeles, CA DV Expo |
Panel speaker:
Enhanced DVD (Co-panelists: Ralph LaBarge - AlphaDVD [moderator], Clint Ludeman - InterActual) |
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| Sep 16, 2002, San Francisco, CA OSTA Optical Storage Symposium |
Panel speaker: The
Future of Content Delivery and Storage (Co-panelists: Rusty Rosenberger - OSTA Chairman [moderator], Wes Brewer - SanDisk, Greg Sanderson - Astound Broadband) |
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| Sep 7, 2002, Santa Barbara, CA Jackson Hole Symposium - Digital Synthesis |
Panel moderator:
New Media / New Encoding (Co-panelists: John David Cameron - Earthship.tv, Dan Gehred - Microsoft, Paul Liao - Panasonic, Tom McMahon - DGFX, Greg Roach - Hyperbole Productions) |
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| Aug 1, 2002, Burbank, CA LA DVD Fest |
Speaker: The Many
Faces of DVD Recordable (With Yan Shvalb of Future Media Concepts) |
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| May 14, 2002 TV Guide Tech Guide |
Interviewed for article: Home Movies on DVD: Digi-Memories | |
| May 13, 2002, San Jose, CA IDEMA Mini Symposium |
Speaker: CPRM Demystified | |
| Apr 1, 2002 CommVerge |
Interview: The space age: DVDs rise to tomorrow's storage challenges | |
| Mar 2002, Dublin, Ireland DVD Summit IV |
Keynote Speaker:
DVD At the Crossroads Head to Head: How to Survive Desktop DVD? (A dialog with Bob Auger of Newmerique Consultants. Panel with Bob Auger - Dan Daley of Tape-Disc Business - and Dr. Mark Waldrep of AIX Media Group) |
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| Mar 2002 Daily Universe (Provo, UT) |
Interview: DVDs Dominate Digital Marketplace | |
| Nov 19, 2001 TV Guide Tech Guide |
Interviewed for article: Recordable DVD: Land of Confusion | |
| Aug 28, 2001, Las Vegas, NV Wedding and Event Videographers Association (WEVA) |
Speaker: The DVD
Breakthrough: Answers to Burning Questions Panel speaker: DVD In Demand: What's New, What's Next? |
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| Jul 2001, Monterey, CA DVD Pro 2001 |
Pre-conference seminar:
What DVD Can Do: DVD Beyond the Pale Panel moderator: Personalizing DVD Playback: Is it Safe? (Co-panelists: Alan Melby - Viewer Freedom, Gordon Barrett - SelectViewing, Bill Aho - MovieGuide) Panel speaker: Writable DVD: Next Time, It's Personal? (Co-panelists: Stephen Nathans - EMedia Magazine [moderator], Dana J. Parker - DVD Report, Mike Evangelist - Apple Computer) |
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| Jun 2001, Hong
Kong FILMART 2001 Digital Production Seminar |
Speaker: Digital Video Publishing with DVD | |
| Apr 2001, London, UK DVD Europe 2001 |
Panel speaker: DVD Goes Beyond
Entertainment (Co-panelists: Richard Howeson - EuroTalk Interactive, Robin Sewell - Cambridge Multimedia) |
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| TapeDisc Business, Apr, 2001 | Spotlight interview, by Dan Daley | |
| USA Today, Feb 26, 2001 | Interviewed for article: DVD sales press fast-forward, by Mike Snider | |
| Feb 2001, Las
Vegas, NV DVDA International Conference |
Pre-conference seminar:
DVD: Portable Broadband Panel moderator: Web-connected DVD (Co-panelists: Tony Knight - Spinware, Ray Ortali - Prime Technologies, Steve Perlman - Visible Light, Jim Wallace - PlanetWeb) |
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| Asia Pacific Broadcasting, Jan 2001 | Interview: DVD
suitable for multimedia convergence Interview: DVD bridges all platforms |
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| Nov, 2000 McGraw-Hill |
Book: DVD
Demystified, 2nd Edition "The Bible" of the DVD industry. |
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| Nov 2000, Singapore APAC DVD Conference: Digital Convergence Solutions |
Speaker: Portable
Broadband Speaker: Nuts & Bolts of DVD Production Speaker: DVD & Interactive TV Here's a picture of me melting in the heat. Panel moderator: DVD in the
Internet Age |
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| Nov 2000, Sydney, Australia APAC DVD Conference: DVD Beyond Hollywood |
Speaker: Portable
Broadband Speaker: Nuts & Bolts of DVD Production A picture of Jeff and Harry pretending to pay attention. Panel moderator: DVD in the
Internet Age |
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| Sep 2000, Jackson, WY Jackson Hole Symposium |
Panelist:
Cutting-Edge New Media: HD-DVD, WebDVD, and Datacasting (Co-panelists: Fred Grossberg - Mill Reef Entertainment [moderator], Oliver Luckett - iBlast, Tom McMahon - Microsoft, Steve Michelson - Steve Michelson Productions) |
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| Sep 12 2000, Vancouver, Canada IEEE International Conference on Image Processing |
Keynote Speaker:
DVD: Ground Zero in the Convergence Zone Speaker: DVD Technologies and Applications |
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| Jul 2000, San
Francisco, CA DVD Pro 2000 Conference |
Award: 2000 DVD Pro
Discus Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry A picture of me looked stunned and bemused at the award ceremony. Pre-conference seminar: DVD: Portable Broadband Panel moderator: Connected DVD Panel speaker: Future-Proofing Your Content |
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| Aug 2000 DigitalDNA |
Audio interview:
Introduction to DVD Audio interview: Get Technical With DVD |
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| Jun 2000, Dublin, Ireland DVD Summit III |
Pre-conference seminar:
Design, Compression, Authoring (With Andy Evans of The Pavement) Presentation: The browser-based union of DVD-Video and ROM |
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| 2000 Widescreen Review, Issue 36 |
Article: DVD Meets
the Web |
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| ? Widescreen Review, Issue 35 |
Interview:
DVD in the Forefront |
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| ? Widescreen Review, Issue 34 |
Article: Digital Pie in the Sky: Why There Will Never be a Digital Laserdisc | |
| ? Widescreen Review, Issue 33 |
Article: Anamorphic Widescreen: Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' DVD | |
| ? Widescreen Review, Issue 31 |
Article: DVD-Audio:
Too Little Too Late? |
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| ? Widescreen Review, issue 30 |
Article: Looking At
HDTV In All The Wrong Places |
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| Nov 30, 1999, Gaithersburg, MD NIST DVD '99 Workshop Standards, Applications, and Technology |
Speaker: DVD-Video
for the Industrial and Education Markets Speaker: WebDVD: Enhancing DVDs for PCs and the Internet |
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| Jun 1999, Toronto NewMedia '99 |
Three Seminars |
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| Aug 1999, San
Francisco ZDTV Call for Help |
TV interview and article:
DVD 101 and Then Some |
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| Apr, 1999 DVDNett.no |
Interview: Holy Man
- et intervju med DVD-guru Jim Taylor (In Norwegian) |
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| Mar 1999, Santa
Barbara DVD Pro |
Various presentations |
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| Dec, 1997 McGraw-Hill |
Book: DVD
Demystified "The Bible" of the DVD industry. |
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| Apr 1996 Videodiscovery |
Article: Help
There's a DVD Under My Bed! Educational technology primer. A bit dated now. |
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| May 1996 Videodiscovery |
Article:
A Quick Spin Around the Internet: An Analogy Educational technology primer. An explanation of Internet protocols from back before HTML took over the world. |
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| Jan 1991 | LinguaBox Multimedia software (Macintosh, SuperCard, laserdisc player) for teaching English to Japanese speakers. Predecessor to Quick English. |
