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The National Television Academy has announced the winners of the 2003 Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards. Emmys were awarded for outstanding achievement in technology and engineering. Among the winners:
- Pioneering Efforts in the Development of Automated, Server-Based Closed Captioning Systems: Turner Networks
- Pioneering Development of Digital Modulator Adaptive Pre-Correction for ATSC 8-VSB Digital Transmitter Systems: Thales Broadcast & Multimedia
- Development & Application of Sub-Pixel Imaging Devices For Television Cameras: Thomson Broadcast & Media Solutions
- Development of Surround Sound for Television: Dolby Laboratories, Jim Fosgate, and Peter Scheibe
- Pioneering Development of mass-produced digital reflective imaging technology for consumer rear projection television: Texas Instruments DLP Products
- Coding Technology for Optical Recording Formats: Dr. Kees Immink
- Technology to simultaneously encode multiple video qualities and the corresponding metadata to enable real-time conformance and/or playout of the higher quality video (nominally broadcast) based on the decisions made using the lower quality proxies: Pinnacle Systems (Montage) and Thomson Broadcast & Media Solutions (Philips)
For a list of other winners, visit www.emmyonline.org/emmy/tech.html.
