Creating High Powered Sports Programming - Part One
Runtime: 06:25

• Kristin Petrovich, CEO/Founder of HD EXPO introduces panel
  
• Larry Thorpe of Canon introduces the panel
  
• Overview of sports broadcasting
  

Creating High Powered Sports Programming - Part Two
Runtime: 07:50

• How will high definition affect the future of sports broadcasting?
• Bryan Burns, VP, Strategic Business Planning & Development for ESPN discusses:
  • How will HD affect the Wow factor?
    
  • What about the business side? How will the images get delivered?
• Mark Haden, VP of Engineering & IT, MLB Networks discusses:
  • Surround sound is becoming affordable and can be delivered without affecting the SD audience
  • Wow fact in sound can be baby step #2
    
  • The Holy Grail of 1080p delivery will take much longer to attain
    

Creating High Powered Sports Programming - Part Three
Runtime: 08:00

• Use of digital cinemas to broadcast sporting events?
  
• Chris Wagner of NeuLion and Tim Napoleon of Akamai Technologies discuss IPTV
  
• The internet opens up sports to a global audience
  
• Translating traditional broadcast models to the web
  
• The global audience is a real Wow factor
  
• The internet is a proving ground for sports which translates to global broadcast
  
• What about interactive services?
  
• Interactive features transform a game centric to a fan centric approach
  
• Bryan Burns talks about ESPN's ITV Cabinet and the transitioning to new 2way evironment
  
• Tim Napoleon of Akamai Technologies talks about current interactivity
  

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Creating High Powered Sports Programming - Part Four
Runtime: 06:49

• Mark Haden discusses innovation at MLB Networks
  • Less of a Wow than a turn-around of content
    
  • Preserving history through metadata
    
  • Searching 110,000 hours of material
    
  • Plus up to 15 games a day of new material
    
  • Use of a non-tape environment
    
  • Instantaneousness of content
    
  • Depth and breadth of content real-time
    
  • Integration with Major League Baseball Productions
• Bryan Burns discusses file based systems at ESPN
  • Huge amount of content per day
    
  • In the past all content users clamored for tape
    
  • Now content goes into server and content users access digitally
    
  • Unlike MLB Networks, ESPN is not a green field - 1,500,000 tapes sitting in storage
    

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Creating High Powered Sports Programming - Part Five
Runtime: 07:37

• Is the technology on the horizon to allow the audience at home to be able to choose camera angles?
  
• NeuLion and Maple Leaf Interactive
  
• Content is money and different, unique angles are worth money
  
• The crazy fun of POVs - wouldn't it be cool to put a camera there!
  
• Interaction with virtual players at ESPN
  
• Sometimes the simplest innovation is the best
  

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Creating High Powered Sports Programming - Part Six
Runtime: 07:22

• We are exploring and testing everything
  
• What is the Wow factor of the future?
  
• Technology opens new sporting events for broadcast
  
• Technology increases community involvement through interaction
  
• Does 3D add a Wow factor to sports?
  
• How does one view at home?
  
• Some sports are better for 3D than others
  
• Sports as a testing ground
  

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Creating High Powered Sports Programming - Part Seven
Runtime: 04:07

• 3D discussion continues
  • Depth of field dependence
    
  • Is 3D going to be affordable for consumers in the next 5 years?
    
  • 3D may hit video games first
• Q&A
  
  • Will networks integrate into video games and how far will they go?

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Creating High Powered Sports Programming - Part Eight
Runtime: 08:13

• Q&A
  • Is there unlimited bandwidth with unlimited money? And what about video compression?
    
  • How will networks get consumers to order HD service instead of plugging SD service into an HD display?