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Digital Media Opportunities. Internet2 Industry Strategy Council Jill Arnold. Overview . Higher Education / Entertainment Industry Relationships Internet2 Digital Media Capabilities: Threat or Opportunity? Related Activities Underway Potential Framework for Advanced Content Collaboration
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Digital Media Opportunities Internet2 Industry Strategy Council Jill Arnold
Overview • Higher Education / Entertainment Industry Relationships • Internet2 Digital Media Capabilities: Threat or Opportunity? • Related Activities Underway • Potential Framework for Advanced Content Collaboration • ISC Brainstorm and Discussion • What kind of projects make sense? • How should they be framed? • What is the most appropriate way for Internet2 to engage? • What is the best way to engage industry? • How do we maximize the impact? • Incorporation of advanced functionality, interactivity, etc. • On the global Internet and broadband agenda • For the research and education community?
Higher Ed / Entertainment Community Relationships • Joint Committee of Higher Education and Entertainment Communities • Formed late 2002 to address illegal file sharing on college campuses • Comprised of leaders from universities, higher education organizations, music and motion picture executives • Goals: provide resources for education, technology solutions supporting legal music/movie services, collaboration on legislative initiatives • Internet2 specific discussions with MPAA • Increased awareness of Internet2 capabilities increased concern from MPAA • MPAA – Internet2 initial discussions • MPAA request for work collaboratively
Download of “The Matrix” DVD(Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record)
Digital Piracy Threat • Digital Piracy Concerns • Capabilities of technology • Large student populations • “Free is good” attitude • Efforts to address piracy concerns • New Technology models • New Business models • Lots of education • Progress with songs; increasing concern about movies • Ascroft: Committee on Intellectual Property • April 2004
Digital Media Opportunity • Innovation in an integrated infrastructure • High performance network • Advanced Services • Middleware / Digital Rights Management • Advanced applications, Digital video technologies, Multimedia databases, indexing, and new methods of distribution • Security • End-to-End Performance • Community as a bellwether for the broader Internet, anticipating future applications
High Definition Television/IP • Studio grade (200 mbps UDP/stream) • Collaboration of University of Washington (Research Channel and Pacific/Northwest GigaPoP) and Sony • Connectivity partners have included NTON, HSCC, and Abilene • Raw HDTV/IP (1.5 Gbps) coming soon (Tektronix)…
Public Television: Next Generation Interconnection Pilot • Uses broadband IP video connections • Uses Internet2 networks instead of one-way satellite systems • HD content distribution University of Wisconsin and Washington State University http://ra.doit.wisc.edu:8888/vid.html
ResearchChannel • Pioneering new methods for distributing live and on-demand content • Building channels to facilitate the communication and research of information • Internet2/ResearchChannel Working Group • Digital rights management of the highest fidelity broadcast content. ResearchChannel Consortium http://www.researchchannel.com/
Realistic, Life-Sized, 3D Tele-Immersion • Brings together geographically distant participants and shared virtual objects • Tele-immersive recreation of office environment Advanced Network & Services, Brown University, University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/stc/office/
Teaching Music with Advanced Network Videoconferencing • Real-time interaction with the world’s foremost master teachers of music • Accurate representation of sound • Supplement to traditional music teaching University of Oklahoma http://music.ou.edu/internet2/
More Related Activities • Georgia State University • Cooperative distributed post production work between Atlanta and Hollywood. • University of Southern California • The Entertainment Technology Center at the School of Cinema-Television • Exploration of super high definition and digital production • Movie Link Video distribution to college dorms • On the USC campus; on Abilene with Northwestern, North Carolina State, USC and UC Davis • New degree program in online gaming
And More Related Activities • Northwestern University • International Center for Advanced Internet Research • Comcast cable TV to the dorms via campus network • C-SPAN content distribution • Warner Brothers • Application of advanced applications for high speed data transfer of dailies, digital restoration of old movies • HD gaming system trailer • Discussions with National Cable and Telecommunications Association and Cable Labs • Secure delivery of movies to set-top boxes • Expressed interest of Universal Studios, Disney, Sony, etc.
And More… • Internet2 Real Time Communications • Internet2 Video Middleware Working Group • Application of directory, authorization, and authentication middleware • H.350 ITU standard for directory schemas • Internet2 Commons • Integrated Infrastructure for Instant Messaging • Presence and Integrated Communications • SIP.edu (VoIP WG) • Voice Disaster Recovery
Collaborative Opportunities • Leverage Internet2 Environment and Community for high quality, high performance, and legal digital media development and distribution • High performance, middleware enabled, secure, HD quality video on demand • Real time communication integration for interactivity • Determine Optimal technical infrastructure and optimal business model for entertainment • Increased demand for “big broadband” to the home • Digital Media infrastructure for research and education; for incorporation with cyberinfrastructure • …..
Discussion • What kind of projects make sense? • How should they be framed? • What is the most appropriate way for Internet2 to engage? • What is the best way to engage industry? • How do we maximize the impact? • Incorporation of advanced functionality, interactivity, etc. • On the global Internet and broadband agenda • For the research and education community?