DTV Access
Caption Summit Agenda

March 14, 2001

10:00 AM Welcome and Overview

Mark Richer, ATSC Executive Director
Gerry Field, Manager, DTV Access Project, WGBH-NCAM

10:20 AM Who Benefits from Captioning?

Larry Goldberg, Director, Media Access Group, WGBH, introducing
Donna Sorkin, Executive Director
A.G. Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

11:00 AM DTV Captioning: Transitioning from 608 to 708

Gerry Field, NCAM

11:30 AM What Will the FCC Require? DTV Caption Rules

Karen Strauss, Deputy Chief, Consumer Information Bureau
Neal McNeil, Office of Engineering & Technology
Federal Communications Commission

12:00 PM Lunch (provided)

Networking
Manufacturers information

12:45 PM Current Distribution Models and Product Support

Broadcasters:
Gregory Forbes, PBS
Randall Hoffner, ABC
Richard Friedel, Fox
Paul Berger, CBS.

Equipment Manufacturers:
Phil McLaughlin, EEG
Mike Kirouac, Evertz
Tom Stone, Mixed Signals
Jim Carruthers, Norpak

1:45 PM Current Receiver Development and Bitstream Analysis

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

2:30 PM Break

Refreshments and time for networking

3:00 PM Next Steps

Development topics, common authoring and distribution file formats.
Brad Botkin, WGBH
Jim Carruthers, Norpak
Trent Haas, Evertz
Followed by open discussion period

3:45 PM Wrap Up, Announcements

4:00 PM Adjourn

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) is an international, non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for digital television. The ATSC has approximately 200 member organizations representing the broadcast, broadcast equipment, motion picture, consumer electronics, computer, cable, satellite, and semiconductor industries. www.atsc.org

The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media, is a non-profit research and development facility within the Media Access Group of the WGBH Educational Foundation. The DTV Access Project is funded by grants from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) of the United States Department of Education, and the Television Future Fund of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.