Career Photos
1982 - Early HDTV Research at RCA Sarnoff Labs
1991 - Developing the Advanced Digital HDTV (AD-HDTV) system (with Carlo Basile). Note the QAM constellation on the 'scope.
Sept. 30, 1992 - World's first digital HDTV and analog NTSC simulcast (at WRC-TV)
May 1993 - the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance
April1995 - the Grand Alliance HDTV system debuts at NAB95 - demonstrations for FCC Chmn. Hundt
Dec 24, 1996 - FCC adopts ATSC standard
1999 - Early work on Digital Cinema - HDTV (2k resolution) on the BIG screen
2003 - Launching Universal-HD, the first HD cable channel
2004 - FCC Media Security and Reliability Council, with FCC Chmn. Powell and NBC Network Operations Pres. Eck
2008 - Visiting the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) with the ATSC Board
2012 - Technical Emmy for Active Format Description (AFD)
2015 - Technical Emmy for ATSC Loudness Control, with Jim Starzynski
2016 - First live ATSC 3.0 broadcasts at NAB (note the blue banana tribute to analog TV lore)
2018 - With Pete Sockett of WRAL-TV - first ATSC 3.0 UHD/HDR transmissions from PyeongChang Olympics
1981 - SMPTE Component Digital Video Demonstrations
1989 - Pioneering work on interactive menus and graphics for TV
June 1992 - The Advanced Digital HDTV system prototype ships for testing
1993 - AD-HDTV system and VCR demonstrations at NBC 30 Rock (I would join NBC 9 years later!)
March1993 - the Grand Alliance prototype completes final integration at Sarnoff Labs
standing: Wayne Luplow, Glenn Reitmeier, Bob Rast, Terry Smith
seated: Ralph Cerbone, Jae Lim, Aldo Cugnini
1996 - The Model HDTV Station project at WRC-TV
1998 - NIST High Definition Broadcast Technology project - world's first digital HDTV transmission over fiber and high-speed networks
2000 - Technical Emmy for Sarnoff's ATSC Compliance Bitstreams
(with Hans Baumgartner, Terry Smith and Mike Isnardi)
2004 - NBC Weather Plus - the first national multicast channel
2008 - As Chairman of the Board at ATSC's 25th anniversary celebration
2009 - ATSC Mobile DTV device prototypes and broadcast demonstrations (with John Godfrey, Mark Richer and John Taylor)
2012 - Ultra-HD 8k demo in Washington in collaboration with NHK, BBC and NTT
(with Maki Hatae, Kenichi Murayama, Keiichi Kubota, Myra Einstein, Greg DePriest and Shea Ng)
2015 - First ATSC 3.0 plugfest, hosted by NERC in Shanghai
2017 - With the ATSC Board at ribbon-cutting for ATSC 3.0 broadcasts at NAB 2017
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