DTV Access
DTV Caption Summit

Co-Sponsored by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and the CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) with the generous support of Panasonic — Matsushita Electric Corporation of America

Wednesday, March 14, 2001
WETA, 2775 S. Quincy Street
Arlington, VA

Meeting agenda
List of Attendees

Presentations

Who Benefits from Captioning?

Donna Sorkin, Executive Director, A.G. Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing -- download presentation

DTV Captioning: Transitioning from 608 to 708

Gerry Field, NCAM -- download presentation

What Will the FCC Require? DTV Caption Rules

Karen Strauss, Deputy Chief, Consumer Information Bureau, Federal Communications Commission -- download presentation

Current Distribution Models and Product Support

Broadcasters:

Gregory Forbes, PBS -- download presentation
Randall Hoffner, ABC
Richard Friedel, Fox
Paul Berger, CBS.

Equipment Manufacturers:

Phil McLaughlin, EEG -- download presentation
Mike Kirouac, Evertz
Tom Stone, Mixed Signals -- download presentation
Jim Carruthers, Norpak -- download presentation

Current Receiver Development and Bitstream Analysis

ATSC/CEA Plugfest event overview
New CEA caption test material demonstration
Robert Blanchard, Sony -- download presentation
Charlie Dieterich, Sarnoff Corp -- download presentation
Stephane Billat, Sencore -- download presentation

Development topics, common authoring and distribution file formats.

Brad Botkin, WGBH -- download presentation
Jim Carruthers, Norpak -- download presentation
Trent Haas, Evertz