Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Entertainment on Sunday 11th March

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• PBS KIDS Breakfast: The Cool Kids - What’s New for Today’s Digital Kids

  How do you create content that's both educational & entertaining? Join the creative minds at PBS KIDS for breakfast & Q&A.

  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Kids

  At 9:30am to 11:00am, Sunday 11th March

  In Finn & Porter

• Arcade Stage: Marvel - House of Ideas

  FREE and Open to the Public. For the first time ever, Marvel - the world’s #1 comics publisher and one of the world’s leading entertainment companies - has joined forces with SXSW to deliver a panel like no other for all kinds of fans. Featuring Axel Alonso (Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief), Jeph Loeb (Head of Marvel Television) and Peter Phillips (SVP & GM, Marvel Digital Media Group), the three will unveil Marvel’s bold new multimedia plans that includes the premiere of Marvel's revolutionary new ways to read comics. Marvel is coming armed with big news AND exclusive animation footage so no Marvel fan can miss out on this exciting panel!

  • Animation
  • Comics
  • Entertainment
  • Marvel

  At 1:00pm to 1:45pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Exhibit Hall 1, Palmer Event Center

• Connected Living Rooms, Contentious Networks

  by Sebastian Haley, Blake Lewin, Philip Kearney, Jim Cady and Santi Pierini

  The celestial jukebox. Cloud gaming. On-demand movies on your mobile phone. The dream of having all the entertainment you want as soon as you want it, has never been so close. There’s just one catch: network contention. You know it by many forms: A spinning hourglass; a “Buffering” window; a stuttering video. Though full of promise, cloud-based, streaming entertainment is still a long way from the seamless, instant response we’ve come to expect from a DVD player or a console game system.

  Why the slow-down? Part of it has to do with delays on the open Internet. But a surprising amount of it has to do with technology embedded in our TVs, home networks and set-top boxes. The explosion in entertainment is stressing our home networking technology to its limits. Every application wants all your bandwidth at the same time. It’s the “tragedy of the commons” right in your living room.

  But help is on the way. In this panel, leading experts on home networking and media distribution will reveal the sometimes surprising causes of streaming media hiccups in the home, and technologies that could make buffering delays a thing of the past.

  • Connected
  • Entertainment
  • Networking
  • Wireless

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Sabine, Hilton Garden Inn Austin Downtown

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