new york, ny-Winners of this year's Technological/Engineering Emmy Awards were announced on Tuesday, October 16, during a black-tie dinner ceremony at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The event was hosted by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Twenty-five Emmys were awarded for outstanding achievement in engineering development in the following categories:
Pioneering development of a digital HDTV upconverter:
*BBC
*Faroudja Labs Division of Sage
*Leitch
*YEM
Pioneering development of a PVR and accompanying personal television service:
*ReplayTV
*TiVo
Implementation of a multi-standard precision digital test transmitter for use in receiver chip-set development and set-top box evaluation and characterization:
*Rohde & Schwarz
Development of consumer camcorders:
*Eastman Kodak
*Hitachi
*JVC
*Matsushita Electric
*Sony
Development of 24p video:
*Eastman Kodak
*Laser Pacific
*Sony
Development of flat screen CRT technology for consumer television:
*Sony Corporation of America
*Zenith
Pioneering developments in shared video-data storage systems technology for use in television video servers:
*Leitch
*THOMSON Multimedia
*Pinnacle Systems
*Sea Change International
Pioneering effort in digital asset management for television news production:
*CNN
*KGO-TV
*ITN
*Quantel
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