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MillimeterThomson Receives Two Emmy Awards for the Second Year in a Row
Oct 27, 2003 12:00 PM
New Awards Brings Company Emmy Total To 19 For Technical And Engineering Achievement
Paris/Nevada City, Calif., - For the second year in a row, the National Television Academy (NTA) has announced that Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS), the worldwide leader in video, and film technologies, products and services, will be presented with two 2003 Technology and Engineering Emmy awards. This year's awards recognize technologies that have greatly advanced the field of image acquisition and helped broadcast news editors work faster and more efficiently. The awards were presented Thursday, October 23 during the NTA annual awards dinner at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. They represent the eighteenth and nineteenth Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards received by Thomson and its acquired companies in their combined histories.
The first Emmy award received by Thomson recognizes the company's development of its patented Dynamic Pixel Management (DPM) FT-17 technology used in its Grass Valley LDK camera line. The technology oversamples information coming into a camera's sensor, or CCD, to create more realistic and lifelike images.
Thomson's DPM technology was first used on the LDK 10 and LDK 10P cameras. Today, it is leveraged across the entire LDK camera line, from the recently introduced LDK 300 standard-definition camera and multi-format LDK 6000 mk II WorldCam high-definition camera to the Grass Valley Viper FilmStream Camera system for digital cinematography.
The second award honors Thomson and for the pioneering development of software technology that speeds the work of broadcast news editors.
At a basic level, the software lets broadcasters automatically capture two copies of the same video feed: a full-bandwidth, high-resolution file and a compressed proxy copy of the same file. Using unique identifiers, the software ensures that the two files are inextricably linked so that an editor can create a rough edit of a story offline, at a desktop PC, then finish the edit with in high-resolution edit suite. The result is faster story creation, more efficient use of editing rooms, and greater time to create richer stories.
This unique method for fast editing and file retrieval is in use today and has been significantly advanced across the Grass Valley Profile XP Media Platform server line as well as in the Grass Valley NewsBrowse Web-based browser/editor, which is the centerpiece of the Grass Valley Digital News Production Solution.
In 2002, Thomson won two Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards for its development and/or commercialization of the 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio and for the development of the consumer digital set top box for satellite and cable broadcasting.
About the Awards
The National Television Academy Technology and Engineering Emmy Award is awarded to an individual, a company, or 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.
About the National Television Academy
The National Television Academy, whose total dedication is excellence, is a professional service organization for all aspects of the Television, Cable and Satellite industries. Its symbol of excellence, the Emmy, is awarded in six major national categories including Sports, News/Documentary, Daytime, Technology, and International (through its International Academy). Local Emmys are given in nineteen regions across the United States. Beyond awards, the Academy has extensive educational projects, scholarships, publications, and major activities of impact to both industry professionals and the viewing public itself. For more information, please visit the website at www.emmyonline.org.
About Thomson
Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) provides a wide range of video (and enabling) technologies, systems, finished products and services to consumers and professionals in the entertainment and media industries. To advance and enable the digital media transition, Thomson has four principal divisions: Content and Networks, Consumer Products, Components, and Licensing. The company distributes its products under the Technicolor, Grass Valley, THOMSON and RCA brand names.
For more information: www.thomson.net
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