| About This CD-ROM: PowerPoint Presentations || Adobe Acrobat Presentations || Audio Presentations The Photographs || The Conference Sponsors |
| General Information: This CD-ROM contains presentations and other conference content, in a variety of media formats. To access this multimedia content you will need to have several software "viewers" or browser "plug-ins" available on your computer -- most are likely running on your computer already. If not, you will need to acquire and install these viewers -- most available FREE, via the internet. Once configured, you'll find a broad range of useful material here, including:
These pages were tested with both Internet Explorer and Netscape, but were written to take advantage of additional HTML features available in Explorer, and it will look better in Explorer 4.0 or later. COPYRIGHT: Copyright of the individual graphic presentations and audio voice recordings is retained by the original author, and is used in this collection with permission. You may use them as personal reference documents, making a limited number of printed copies for your individual use, but may not reproduce, deconstruct or repurpose any of this material, in any other form, electronic or otherwise, without the written permission of the original author. Do not contact PBS for this permission; contact the author, directly. LINKS: You will find that most hotlinks embedded in these pages connect to other documents within the CD-ROM, however a number of links reference external documents that will only function correctly if the computer also has an active internet connection. Observe the reference address in the browser window before clicking on it, if you are not connected to the internet. While clicking an external link should have no fatal result (in browser-speak), it may freeze control your computer for several seconds, while the browser tries to make the external connection, or it may display fault windows, when an external connection fails. THE VIEWERS: These viewer packages include:
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| PowerPoint Presentations: Microsoft PowerPoint seems to be the defacto standard for Conference presentations. Even in the non-Windows world, Star Office produces a presentation file that is compatible with PowerPoint. If the author and/or presenter provided his presentation in the PowerPoint format, it is included on this disk. The primary advantage of providing the presentation in its original format is that it often includes the authors original script or notes, particularly important if the sound file for that presentation is not available. Secondly, it is an easily accessed display format, to view on-screen, while the audio file is playing in the background.
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| Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Conversions: As Microsoft PowerPoint represents the defacto presentation standard, Adobe Acrobat is the default standard for universal document printing. We've converted all available presentations, using Acrobat 4.0, into two useful document-styles; presentation slide-format, and 3-per-page handout-format. There are a few presentations that are only available in this format, as the author chose not to provide the original PowerPoint presentation. |
| MP3 Audio Files: Some of the Conference Sessions were spontaneous, group-events, where no prepared PowerPoint presentation can represent the essence of the experience. Others were direct presentations by a single author, and include additional detail in the spoken delivery that were not included in the graphic form. We were fortunate to have cassette recordings of most the sessions held in the Apollo Ballroom. All of these were converted to digital (.WAV) form, edited into individual session-files, and compressed into MP3 format -- allowing us to include nearly 16-hours of Conference audio on this single CD-ROM.
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| The Photographs: Being television engineers, we generally operate in a visual modality. We've included photos of various conference events, with a particular focus on the Saturday evening event at Madame Taussaud's, as well as photos from the Las Vegas environs. Most of the included images have a resolution of 1500x1000 pixels, with a few having greater -- 2000x1500 pixel resolution; and originated as low-compression (i.e. 7:1) .JPG-format images. We've minimized the file size for this CD-ROM by increasing the compression to about 50:1, allowing us to provide many more images of acceptable quality, in the same 50-megabyte footprint. We've provided thumbnail versions of each image, usually grouped with similar images in pages of about 20-25 images. Selecting, meaning "clicking" on one of these thumbnail images, will load the full-size image on your screen. Use the scroll controls to move around the image (assuming you're not using a 1500x1000 pixel monitor format) or right-click on an image to save it for viewing in other photo software.
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2001 PBS Technology Conference CD-ROM