DVD PRO Conference & Exhibition is the Largest Worldwide Gathering of DVD Professionals.WILTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1998--The DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. PRO Conference & Exposition, held in September in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , CA, nearly doubled in size over the spring conference and proved a comprehensive meeting for the fast changing industry of DVD technology. DVD PRO attracted 610 participants, 36 exhibitors and sponsors, and 75 speakers to the largest gathering on DVD technology in the world. The two-day intense forum included three conference tracks: Creative, Business, and Technical. The conference was attended by DVD professionals ranging from developers, publishers, and producers (DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. , Video and Audio), post and replication facility owners and managers, MIS and network administrators, executives, managers, disc manufacturing equipment makers, technical professionals, and many others involved in DVD. Several industry leaders in DVD technology cooperated to make DVD PRO the largest and most exciting DVD event of the year. Corporate sponsor Optibase showed off new Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. authoring and encoding See encode. tools. Technicolor provided a post-conference tour of their plant in Camarillo, California Camarillo is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. The population was 57,077 at the 2000 census. A January 1, 2006 California Department of Finance estimate lists the population at 64,034. The Ventura Freeway (U.S. Route 101) is the city's primary thoroughfare. . DVD-ROM computers for the DVD Theatre and all conference sessions were provided by Dolby Licensing. Minerva Systems sponsored the DVD Creative Excellence Awards that recognized outstanding examples if interactivity, design and production for all DVD-Video and DVD-ROM titles. The 600+ page conference guide -- including attendee list, speaker bios and contact information, speaker presentations, and additional information, such as sponsor and exhibitor material, and DVD technology articles previously published in EMedia Professional magazine, is available for purchase on the conference Web site at http://www.dvdpro.net. The next DVD PRO event is being planned for August 15-16, 1999 at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] . For more information on this upcoming DVD event visit http://www.dvdpro.net. DVD PRO Conference & Exhibition -- the second DVD event of this year -- was produced by Online Inc., publisher of EMedia Professional magazine. Sponsors of the event include Optibase as the Corporate Sponsor, Nimbus and Technicolor as the Associate Sponsors, and Software Publishers Association as the Association Sponsor. |
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