[opendtv] HPA Technology Retreat update & hotel advisory

The low-cost room block at the Westin Mission Hills Resort in Rancho Mirage, California, where the 15th-annual HPA Technology Retreat is taking place February 17-20, will expire on Sunday. So, if you want to stay cheap at the high-end event-hotel, reserve by then. Afterwards the hotel is no longer obligated to honor the HPA rate. Here's hotel info: 
http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/page.do?sitePageId=75748&orgId=hopa
There have been a few more updates to the program. Belden's Steve Lampen will ask questions of genius Merrill Weiss at a Thursday roundtable. Then Steve will discuss Ethernet & Broadcast at a Friday roundtable, and Merrill will discuss updates to the Archive eXchange Format at his own Friday roundtable. We are almost out of roundtable space. If you've been debating having one, please contact me ASAP.
A number of the speakers at the "Visions of the Future" supersession have been revealed. They include the head of the Big-6 Hollywood studios MovieLabs, someone who might well be the world's greatest expert on military imaging technology, and the creator of the "Hole-in-Space" artwork (and many others) that has been copied by Cisco some three decades later. It will also include a "young entrepreneurs" panel (where else will future funding come from), a look at such laboratory technologies as paper-thin lenses and the ability to pull focus AFTER shooting, and some reasons why human perception might be evolving as fast as technology.
Simon Eldridge of Omneon will be doing a presentation on Service-Oriented Storage. Michael Sterling of National TeleConsultants will be doing an update on the Advanced Media Workflow Association (formerly the AAF Association). And there MIGHT be a special look at the summer Olympics technology.
Would you believe full-color 3-D motion holograms? See for yourself at the technology demonstration of RabbitHoles Media, the latest addition to the more than 65 others in the demo room. 

The program is regularly updated here:
http://www.hpaonline.com/mc/page.do?sitePageId=62874&orgId=hopa
And, so that you don't hate yourself and require therapy forever (not to mention possibly losing your job or your clients due to insufficient knowledge of the field), here's registration info: 
http://www.hpaonline.com/mc/page.do?sitePageId=79232&orgId=hopa

TTFN,
Mark



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