63rd NAB BROADCAST ENGINEERING CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS

NAB Show will host the 63rd NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference on April 18 – 23 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference addresses the most recent developments in broadcast technology and focuses on the opportunities and challenges that face broadcast engineering professionals around the world.

Each year over a thousand broadcast professionals from around the world attend the conference. They include practicing broadcast engineers and technicians, engineering consultants, contract engineers, broadcast equipment manufacturers, distributors, R&D engineers plus anyone specifically interested in the latest broadcast technologies. Click here to view summaries of the presentations at the NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference held in 2008.

The NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference is a highly technical conference where presenters deliver technical papers ranging over a variety of topics relevant to the broadcast and allied industries. Presentations are typically limited to thirty minutes in length, including five or ten minutes for questions from the audience. The conference rooms are equipped with audio-visual equipment that will accommodate computer presentations, video and audio playback.

We invite you to submit a proposal to present a technical paper at our conference. Proposals should be clearly written and be no more than 250 words in length. Your proposal should explain precisely what conference attendees can expect to learn from your paper. Papers promoting company products or services will not be accepted. However, papers explaining the underlying technologies used in broadcast products or services will be acceptable.

The deadline for submitting your proposal is October 17, 2008. The selection process will begin at that time. You can expect to be notified if your paper proposal has been accepted by November 14, 2008. After receiving your acceptance, you will have until January 16, 2009 to submit your completed paper to us. Your paper will be published in the NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference Proceedings and you will receive a complimentary copy of the Proceedings CD.

NAB will consider all topics related to broadcast engineering for television, such as:

To submit a technical paper proposal, click here and complete the electronic form. If you have questions regarding the NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference, please contact John Marino, VP Science & Technology at 202-429-5346.

The AFD Ready Initiative

AFD Ready is an initiative created by television broadcasters to insure uniform and optimum program delivery of television broadcasts after the analog shutdown on February 17, 2009. Through this initiative, participants will work to increase awareness of AFD and promote its use throughout the television industry.

More information on the initiative including technical information and whitepapers, industry links and a list of AFD Ready ATSC receiver/down-converter devices is now available at www.nab.org/AFDReady.

ATSC Digital Television Transmission System 8-VSB Fundamentals Seminar
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 – KNME, Albuquerque, N.M.

The 1-day 8-VSB Fundamentals seminar, conducted by Gary Sgrignoli, will help you develop a fundamental understanding of the digital VSB transmission system and its performance attributes as well as current practical application information. The seminar includes an optional site visit to KNME’s DTV Tx site on Sandia Crest. For additional information contact the instructor Gary Sgrignoli, Meintel, Sgrignoli & Wallace at 847 259 3352 or Gary.Sgrignoli@IEEE.org or Jim Gale, KNME-DT, 505 277 2049, jgale@knme.org

The August 25, 2008 TV TechCheck is also available in an Adobe Acrobat file.
Please click here to read the Adobe Acrobat version of TV TechCheck.