Clyde Smith

Award recognizes the technical leadership Smith provided at Fox, Turner and Lockheed and work on file format specs.

“As late as last year, I heard manufacturers saying that their end users ‘wanted to build a plant with a single vendors products,’ as if that would insure interoperability. I did not hear one manufacturer say that this year.”

Following their first meeting at the NAB Show in 2015, a weekly NABA/DPP Technical Group has worked to the basis of a common delivery specification for North America.

Mark Harrison said in 2010 it was clear there was problem. End-to-end digital workflows were not coming together.