TECHNICAL TOURS
A total of 14 Technical Tours were planned. They catered to a wide range of interests.
T1 Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) Radio Broadcast
T2 Bavaria Filmstudio in M�nchen-Geiselgasteig
T3 MSM Studio in M�nchen-Schwabing
T4 New Fair and Convention-Center (ICM) T5 Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) TV Broadcast
T6 �CINEMA� Film Theater
T7 The Liebfrauenkirche � the Main Church of Munich
T8 Technical University (T.U.M.) of Munich
T9 Antenne Bayern � Private Radio Station T10 Institut f�r Rundfunktechnik (IRT) in M�nchen-Freimann
T11 �Beta Digital� and �Taurus Media Technik� T12 Siemens AG Semiconductors M�nchen (Balanstra�e)
T13 Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) Radio Broadcast
T14 SZM Studios (Sende-Zentrum-M�nchen)
Saturday, May 8, 17:00 - 19:30 h
This tour included a visit to a fully digital and networked
Studio, where the BR radio news program �B5
aktuell� is produced and transmitted. Additionally,
the fully automatic Broadcasting control of DAB
(Digital Audio Broadcasting) as well as 3 brand new
Studios for self-operating of the �local news� in the
main radio program can be visited. Moreover, the
sound archives were shown, including the newly
developed digital archive.
Sunday, May 9, 10:00 - 12:30 h
Tour around Germany�s biggest film and video production
site, with special focus on the audio post
production area.
Sunday, May 9, 10:00 - 12.00 h
In two Studios, the complete DVD Mastering and
multi-channel coding were shown. Also, 48/96 kHz
comparison and sound restoration can be demonstrated.
of Munich in M�nchen-Riem
Sunday, May 9, 14:00 - 18.00 h
Brand new international fair with 2 broadcast-studios
and a Convention location for max. 6500 visitors
with fully digitalized high-tech sound-system. All
studios are linked with glass-fibre conductors to minimize
interferences.
Sunday, May 9, 14:00 - 16:30 h
Two big production studios and a postproduction
studio with TV and sound control were shown, in
which the technical equipment is of the same kind.
Also the studio acoustics were demonstrated.
Monday, May 10, 10:00 - 12:30 h
This film-theatre is one of the most perfect cinemas
in Germany. Comparison of digital sound formats for
film as Dolby Stereo A/SR/SRD, DTS, SDSS (Sony
Dynamic Stereo Sound) and Lucasfilm Sound THX
is possible during this tour.
Monday, May 10, 9:30 - 11:30 h
The PA-System and the problems with the room-acoustics
(reverberation-time 13,6 s at 250 Hz) will
be explained. A very famous organ of the Company
Jann (95 registers) and a side Organ (36 registers) was
be visited and played by the Dom-Organist Prof.
Franz Lehrndorfer.
Monday, May 10, 14:00 - 16:00 h
In the Institute of �Man-Machine-Communication�
the newest R & D projects were visited, as speech-recognition,
noise evaluation, data reduction methods
and voice selection. The Usability Lab and the
anechoic chamber were shown.
in Ismaning, near Munich
Monday, May 10, 14:00 - 17:00 h
The brand new equipped radiostation of the private
Broadcaster �Antenne Bayern� were visited.
Tuesday, May 11, 10:00 - 12:30 h
The IRT is the technical research and development
department of the public broadcasters of Germany,
Austria and Switzerland. Research results in virtual
sets for TV productions, the cascading of transmission
in MPEG coding, the DAB and DVB transmission
control center and multichannel sound were
presented.
(Kirch-Group) in M�nchen-Unterf�hring
Tuesday, May 10, 10:00 - 13:00 h
Beta Digital is operating the broadcasting-center via
satellite of all digital TV and radio programs of pay-TV
(DF 1/ Premiere) and other broadcasters. At
Taurus Media Technik, the post-production, restoring
and archiving of all movies of the group were
demonstrated.
Tuesday, May 11, 14:00 - 17:00 h
New developments for digital signal processing, data
storage (Multi Media Card, MMC) and transmission
were presented by Siemens Semiconductors. The
Multi Media Card is able, to store half an hour of
stereo-music.
Tuesday, May 11, 14:00 - 16:30 h
Same as Tour T1
Tuesday, May 11, 10:00 - 12:30 h
SZM Studios, Film, TV- und Multimedia Produktions
GmbH � a compagnie of ProSieben Media AG � is a
Full Service Provider for audio-visual Media. The
offer was from studio-production in conventional and
virtual studios on cutting, graphic and audio-post-production
up to 3-D-animation and visual effects.
With these comprehensive offerings, SZM Studios
is one of the leading production houses in Europe.
The information given is believed to be correct at press
time but is subject to change without notice if necessary.
Please refer to the final version in the Program Booklet
available at the Convention.
