Television Signal Transmission: Another Technology in Transition

Bob Paulson joined Artel Communications Corp. in July 1988 as director of marketing and product management, concentrating on development of fiber-optic transmission systems for television, HDTV, and high-resolution RGB graphics signals. He was previously managing partner of AVP Communication for 13 years, providing a broad range of consulting services to manufacturers and end-user clients in the television industry. Paulson's television career began as assistant director of the CBS Fred Waring Television Show, in the early broadcast era when the network had 11 affiliates interconnected by cable. During a decade at Ampex, he was a product planning and marketing participant in many audio and video revolutions, including multichannel audio mastering, the VR-1000 quad VTR, and color video recording. In the 1960s and 1970s at Precision Instrument Company and Microtime Inc., he was involved in pioneering the development of the 1-in. helical scan VCR and stand-alone analog and digital TBCs. Paulson holds AB and MS in EE degrees from Dartmouth College and the Thayer School of Engineering. He is well known as an author and lecturer, and has been active in SMPTE standards-setting committees for many years. He is a member of SMPTE, IEEE, AES, SBE (Certified Senior Engineer), AFCEA (Life Fellow), ITVA, and IABC.