SMPTE Meetings and Conferences ( February 1987)
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New Technology and the Broadcaster
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- Publisher
- SMPTE — White Plains, NY
- Doc Type
- Conference Paper
- Content Type
- Original Research
- Volume
- 1987, No. 31, pp. 203–210
- Abstract
- In the formative years of television broadcasting, new developments in technology were immediately and enthusiastically embraced by engineers and management alike in their drive to improve picture quality, extend services and add new production values to television programs. Emphasis is now increasingly being directed toward the impact of technology upon spectrum conservation, viewer perceptions and the vital matter of the profitability of broadcast companies themselves. New developments must be analyzed in these terms and realistic priorities established to identify those projects which should be implemented immediately, relative to those that might be postponed or abandoned entirely. Equipment designers and manufacturers are challenged to produce hardware that translates the promise of new technology into products that will justify capital investment by a return in increased reliability and reduced operating and maintenance costs.
- Publication Date
- 1987-02-01
- DOI
10.5594/M00892- Link
- https://doi.org/10.5594/M00892
- Author(s)
- Max BerryCapital Cities/ABC, Inc. New York, New York
bio
Max Berry is an electrical engineer who has a background in equipment and systems design, marketing and management and has been with ABC for 21 years. He joined ABC in 1965 as manager of equipment planning, was named manager of audio/video systems engineering in 1968, and promoted to director of audio/video systems engineering in 1976. He was appointed vice-president, engineering, B.O. & E., in 1985. During the period from 1970–1987, all of ABC's New York, Washington, London, and San Francisco, technical facilities were either built or rebuilt under his management and control. Mr. Berry was an engineering leader in the Astro Electronics Div. of RCA from 1961–1965, during which time television cameras were designed and built for use in unmanned satellites. Prior to that, he was a marketing manager in the Commercial Broadcast Equipment Dept. of RCA, Camden, N.J. from 1955–1960. This followed a period of four years in the NBC Development Lab. where he worked on scrambled TV systems and built the first color film chain used on the air in the U.S. Mr. Berry has a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cooper Union and an M.E.E. from New York University.Robert ThomasCapital Cities/ABC, Inc. New York, New Yorkbio
Robert Thomas graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in E.E. in 1950. He joined RCA Broadcast Systems Div. in 1951 and was engaged in the design of numerous video distribution and switching products until 1960. He then transferred to the video recording section, specializing in the design of video, FM, and audio signal processing systems. He joined ABC as senior equipment planning engineer in 1982, with responsibility principally for video recording equipment. In December of 1985, he was made director of the newly created Technology Planning Dept. Mr. Thomas is a member of IEEE, RTS, and SMPTE. - Copyright
- © 1987 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.
Bibliographic Reference(s)
- Experiments on Proposed Extended-Definition TV with Full NTSC Compatibility [Active]
- 1. Faroudja Y. F. , Optimizing NTSC to RGB Performance , (Private Publication, Faroudja Laboratories, Sunnyvale, CA.). EXTERNAL
- 3. Fully Compatible EDTV (Extended Definition Television) ( Private Publication, Central Research Labs, Hitachi, Ltd. , Tokyo, Japan , 1986 ). EXTERNAL
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