The German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications
and New Media – BITKOM – and its UK based
sister trade association Intellect will devote a
2-day international summit forum to the topic of “HD-TV
across Europe“. The overall objective will be to
paint a pan european picture of the High-Definition TV market
situation and the status of technology.
The following key aspects will be considered:
- Market volumes and turnover potential
- Roll-out plans of different European countries, first
experienceswith HD-Broadcasting
- Technological aspects and DRM
- HD-content delivery platforms
- Traditional forms: terrestrial, cable, satellite
- New forms: IP-TV, HD-Downloads, Video-on-Demand
- HD-TV and its integration into Smart-Homes and Intelligent
Business Environments
- Customers demands and desires
- Marketing and selling concepts
- visions of future entertainment for the next 10 years
The High-Definition TV markets will be explored and assessed from
different points of view: from the industry as well as broadcasters,
manufacturers, customers and retail. Another focus will be on
marketing aspects and the communication to the end user.
BITKOM and Intellect prepared the congress using their extensive
network of contacts including those available from both
organisations’ membership of EICTA, the European Information and
Communications Technology Industry Association and together with 25
Top-speakers from different countries.
- The HD-TV summit forum will therefore be of interest, for
example, to:
- Consumer Electronics and IT Companies
- Broadcasters, Service and Content Providers
- Smart Home Developers and Installers
- Consultants and Marketing Agencies
- Retailers and Distributors
- …and to executives whose responsibilities relate in
some way to any of the multiple plans for HD-TV roll-out across
Europe.
The congress will be held in the English language.
Please note that the final details of speakers and pannelists
and of their presentation topics are subject to last minute changes
for reasons beyond the control of BITKOM or Intellect