- Charles Poynton
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Charles A. Poynton is a technical consultant and writer based in Toronto, Canada.[1] He is best known for his seminars on digital video systems and his two books, A Technical Introduction to Digital Video (Wiley, 1996; ISBN 047112253X) and Digital Video and HDTV: Algorithms and Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003; ISBN 1558607927).[2] He is currently a columnist at Spectracal.com.[3]
Poynton is a Fellow of SMPTE, and was awarded the David Sarnoff Gold Medal in 1993 for his work to "integrate video technology with computing and communications".[4]
He is a popular teacher of seminars and travels widely for this purpose.[5]
Poynton designed and built, in the early 1980s, the digital video equipment used by NASA to convert video from the Space Shuttle to NTSC.[6]
References
- ^ http://ca.linkedin.com/in/poynton
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=ra1lcAwgvq4C&printsec=frontcover
- ^ http://www.spectracal.com/poyntons_vector.html
- ^ http://www.smpte.org/about/awards_program/sarnoff
- ^ http://www.filmcontact.com/south-africa/events/charles-poynton-seminar-digital-film
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/1558607927
External links
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