Current and Future Developments in Digital Switching and Effects

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 1980, No. 13, pp. 85–88
Abstract: The advent of video digitization advanced and simultaneously threatened the broadcast business in 1973 with the introduction of a digital time base corrector and in 1974 with the full-frame synchronizer. Limited digital techniques such as character generators had been with the industry prior to this but were not in themselves manipulative of the video signal. The actual a-to-d, memory, d-to-a concept of timing a video signal has been with us just six short years in which time we've witnessed more progress in application than in practically any broadcast equipment area in the previous six decades. Both consumer and scientific demands on memory mediums have advanced us through 1K to 4K to 16K chips with a promise around the corner for 64K and 128K single chip capacities. The broadcaster has found himself in the position of either grasping quickly the concepts of digital or hiring young, bright engineers with an emphasis in that domain.
Publication Date: 1980-02-01
DOI: 10.5594/M00438
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M00438
Author(s): R. Dennis FraserNEC America, Inc., Elk Grove Village, Ill.
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R. Dennis Fraser attended Michigan State University, and his background includes a term as Station Manager for WNUS in Chicago and as a writer/producer/director for WLS Television. From 1967 until 1973, Mr. Fraser served as Director of Engineering for New Trier Television, a pioneering educational broadcast system utilizing instructional television fixed service (ITFS) microwave technology. Prior to joining NEC in October 1976, he was National Marketing Manager for Telemation, Inc., in Salt Lake City. Currently Mr. Fraser serves as Corporate Vice-President and General Manager of the Broadcast Equipment Division of NEC America, Inc. He is a member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
Copyright: © 1980 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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