Tech Emmys awarded

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) handed out their annual Technical Emmy Awards at ceremonies in New York last night. The awards honor significant achievements within the television industry, including exceptional contributions to broadcast technology. The winners included:

• Avid Technology (Tewksbury, MA) received its fourth Technical Emmy for its PC video and compression plug-in cards used in the manufacture of its non-linear editing systems or video servers.

• DirecTV (El Segundo, CA) received its third Technical Emmy for developing technology that pre-processes baseband video for improved compression for its digital broadcast satellite service;

• Matrox Video Products Group (Dorval, Quebec) for its PC video compression technology and PC video cards for non-linear editing systems and servers;

• Media 100 (Marlboro, MA) for its non-linear editing systems;

• Orad Hi-Tec Systems (New York, NY) for its virtual advertising and sports broadcasting enhancement tools, including its IMadGINE and CyberSport products;

• Panasonic received its 13th Emmy for its Universal Format Conversion technology, integrated into its AJ-UFC 1800 Universal Format Converter and its DLP large-venue projectors;

• Pinnacle Systems (Mountain View, CA) for its broadcast quality PC video and compression plug-in cards;

• Princeton Video Image (Lawrenceville, NJ) for its technology enabling implementation of real time virtual imaging in live events on television;

• Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, NJ) won its eighth Emmy for its JNDmetrix technology, which predicts how a viewing audience will perceive the quality of digitally processed TV pictures or other still images, so program originators can adjust the processing to create the highest perceived
  quality.

• Snell & Wilcox (Hampshire, UK) received two Emmys for the company's work in the fields of compression pre-processing and high definition up- and down-conversion. These awards bring the company's tally of Emmys to four.

• Symah Vision (Paris, France), for its technology in implementing real time virtual imaging for live television events;

• Tektronix (Beaverton, OR) received its sixth Emmy in recognition of its PQA200 Picture Quality Analyzer

• Vela (Salt Lake City), received an Emmy for its development of full motion broadcast quality PC video and compression plug-in cards for non-linear editing systems or video servers.

Edited by Tom Butts