Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
Atlanta Section

Section Officials

Chairperson
Paul Hogan 
Louth, Inc.
770-641-1277
[email protected]

Managers 

Geoffrey D. King ('99) 
CNN Post Production 
404-827-5056 
[email protected] 

Next Meeting:

March 27, 2025

Meet and Greet at 6:30 PM
Program at 7 PM

Program:

Niche Video Products and Ensemble Designs present:

Making the Transition to Digital Television

Despite how easy it may have looked to Congress, the transition to digital television is not a simple process. The television industry, which for many years had analog composite as a universal standard, is now faced with a confusing array of directions, uses, and methods. Facilities such as broadcasters, who must make this transition smooth and evolutionary face particular challenges – the path from point A to point D is not perfectly straight, and it is not well marked with hazard signs and mileposts. This presentation looks at some of the particular issues faced by and solutions open to this engineering process.

Speaker: David Wood, who founded Ensemble Designs in 1989, has been working in the television industry for 27 years. Ensemble's initial product, the TC400, was a remote control system for the ProcAmp functions in VTRs and TBCs. That product has been kept up to date through out the last ten years with control enhancements and interfaces to new machines. Ensemble's product line also includes the Serial Box line of signal converters, the MultiBuffer networkable video store, and the Catalyst CV component digital switcher. At NAB this year Ensemble Designs introduced a new signal processing and distribution product, Avenue.

Location:

Turner Broadcasting
1010 Building MultiPurpose Room
1010 Techwood Drive
Atlanta, GA

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Calendar:

April 10th – 13th, 2000: NAB 2000 – Las Vegas

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        Last Updated: 14 February 2025