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Written by Bruce Nazarian
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Richard Doherty
Director, Technology Strategy
Microsoft Corporation
www.microsoft.com
Richard E. Doherty is the Director of Technology Strategy for the Consumer MediaTechnology Group at Microsoft, and is currently working on the futureof entertainment at Microsoft. Richard serves as a Founder of the AACSContent Protection group and serves as a member of the SteeringCommittee of the DVD Forum, where he is working towards enabling legalcopying of movies from optical discs onto other digital entertainmentdevices. Richard works with major studio partners and manufacturers indesigning products and developing strategies for enhanced onlinedelivery of entertainment and driving advanced interactivity on today’sHD DVD titles as part of the overall strategy of digital entertainmentdelivery on the numerous platforms of Microsoft devices andtechnologies. Prior to joining Microsoft, Doherty was the managingdirector of Blu-ray and Professional A/V at Panasonic HollywoodLaboratory. Additionally, Doherty has had engineering, management andmarketing roles in several companies, including the HD post productionsoftware companies Cineform and Zodo, and as founder of the filmmatchback software company FilmMatch and Silerity, a company thatdelivered datapath optimization solutions for chip design. Doherty isalso an award-winning film director, with a dozen film festival awards.He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from theCalifornia Institute of Technology, and an MFA in Film and TelevisionProduction from the University of Southern California.
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Written by Bernie Mitchell
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Chip Eberhart DVD Author & Film Editor High Level Productions, USA
DVDA Advisory Council Member  Chip Eberhart
"Everything becomes old and nostalgic at some point. Anything and everything is going to become nostalgic. Even some of the music we hear today that we hate going by homes, and in our cars even that in twenty to thirty years is going to be nostalgic. Time-Life and other smart companies will be there to repackage that music"
"People should be involved in the DVD Association because camaraderie, the exchange of ideas, the exchange of information, that is the only way we are going to grow as professionals.... The motto that I always try to promote to people is what I call co-opitition." |
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Written by Bernie Mitchell
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Andy Evans Managing Director, The Pavement, UK www.the-pavement.com  Andy Evans ‘At that point we decided to not join the gang and lower our prices. We basically restated our mission statement, which is we will basically pitch and go for every single client's A grade work, no matter what the price for that A grade work is.'
"I am sure for certain aspects, we can become a voice, an industry voice for the UK that can push forward thru the DVDA our thoughts to people at the Forum and so on. I think it is a very good association to develop how the DVD format is going to be used in the UK and potentially internationally." |
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Written by Bernie Mitchell
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Neil Wilkes, Director
Opus Productions, UK www.opusproductions.com  Neil Wilkes November 23, 2004
"One of the biggest joys for us is that we don't look at what we do as work or a job. We have great fun, we really enjoy what we do. The tools of our trade we look at as toys. And we have a great time creating new products; music, film and we get paid for it. I think we have the best job in the world."
"We came down to the first meeting and we liked the way it was all being done. We liked the open access to the information, we liked the opportunity to meet and mingle with all the other people working in our field. That is absolutely priceless. And it makes sense to us to be part of an organization that is not only nation wide, but world-wide. Support your local chapter, work hard within that chapter."
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Written by Bernie Mitchell
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Randy Hudson President, Broadness, USA Founder and President, DVDA NYC Treasurer and Member of DVDA Board of Directors www.broadness.com  Randy Hudson "What would I change about it? I would have put the whole thing through a time machine, have everybody sit down and sort out five years ago some of the technical problems that everyone is dealing with today."
"We continue to look for ways to reduce the cost of operation while at the same time provide high quality service." |
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