Information about Technology & Engineering Emmy Award

Technology and Engineering Emmy Award
Technology and Engineering Emmy Award
Awarded for	Outstanding achievement in technical or engineering development
Presented by	ATAS/NATAS
Country	United States

A Technology and Engineering Emmy Award is given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) for outstanding achievement in technical or engineering development. An award can be presented to an individual, a company, or to a scientific or technical organization for developments and/or standardization involved in engineering technologies which either represent so extensive an improvement on existing methods or are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected the transmission, recording, or reception of television.

2007 presentations

• TM Systems, For the development of the QC Station, a lightweight, quality control PC softare that dramatically improves the traditional workflow of a dubbing and/or subtitling project.

2006 presentations

• RCA-TTE, For Pioneering Development of On Screen Display (OSD) for Setup, Control and Configuration of Consumer Television Equipment
• Microsoft, Adobe Systems, RealNetworks, and Apple Computer, Inc., For Streaming Media Architectures and Components
• Terayon Communication Systems, Inc., For pioneering Development for Combining Multiple ransport Streams Which Are Already Encoded, Using Rate-Shaping and Statistical Re-multiplexing
• Visible World and The Weather Channel, For Development and Implementation of automatically Assembled Dynamic Customized TV Advertising
• Gennum Corp., For Technology Advances in Serial Digital Interface Solutions, enabling Over 20 Years of Seamless Studio and Broadcast Infrastructure migration.
• The-N.com (a website associated with The N television channel) for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Non-Synchronous Enhancement of Original Television Programming, for the Video Masher.

2005 presentations

• Ampex and ABC, For slow-motion color recording and playback for broadcast
• ABC, PBS, and Consumer Electronics Association, For closed caption standardization
• The WB and IBM, For pioneering development of locally integrated and branded content using IP Store and forward technology
• Canon USA Inc., Fujinon, and Thales Angeniux, For lens technology developments for solid state imagers cameras in high definition formats
• AT&T For the first intercontinental satellite TV transmission.

2004 presentations

• Sharp, Development of Direct View Liquid Crystal Display Screens
• Philips, Development of UHP Lamps
• Len Reiffel, Pioneering efforts in the invention of the Telestrator
• Echostar and DirecTV Pioneering Efforts in the Development of Spot Beam Satellites for Distribution of Local Broadcast Channels Directly to Home Receivers:
• NCube, Concurrent, and SeaChange, Development, productization, and commercialization of video server technology leading to large scale VOD implementations:

2003 presentations

• Turner Networks For Pioneering Efforts in the Development of Automated, Server-Based Closed Captioning Systems
• Thales Broadcast & Multimedia For Pioneering Development of Digital Modulator Adaptive Pre-Correction for ATSC 8VSB Digital Transmitter Systems
• Thomson Broadcast & Media Solutions For Development And Application Of Sub-Pixel Imaging Devices For Television Cameras
• Dolby Laboratories, Jim Fosgate, and Peter Scheiber For Development of Surround Sound for Television
• Texas Instruments DLP Products For Pioneering Development of mass-produced digital reflective imaging technology for consumer rear projection television
• Dr. Kees Immink For Coding Technology for Optical Recording Formats
• Pinnacle Systems (Montage) and Thomson Broadcast & Media Solutions For Technology to simultaneously encode multiple video qualities and the corresponding metadata

2002 presentations

• Final Cut Pro by Apple Inc. A one application, any format editing system.
• Boujou Automated Camera Tracker by 2d3 Ltd. This innovation provides automatic shot tracking in a fraction of the usual time.
• Arriflex Cameras by ARRI Inc. A Lifetime Achievement Award goes to this organization for fifty years of technological contributions to the industry.
• TM Systems, for their language translation, dubbing and subtitling system.^[1]

1997 presentations

• J.L. Fisher, for development of camera dollies.
• Panasonic, for development of the AJ-LT75 DVCPRO "Laptop" editor.
• Seven organizations known as the Grand Alliance, which are primarily responsible for developing and standardizing the transmission and technology for digital TV. The companies are General Instrument, AT&T, David Sarnoff Research Center, Thomson/RCA, Philips, Zenith and M.I.T..^[2]

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