Charles A. Poynton is a Canadian technical consultant and writer based in
Toronto
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. He gives seminars on digital video systems and has written two books, ''A Technical Introduction to Digital Video'' (Wiley, 1996; ) and ''Digital Video and HDTV: Algorithms and Interfaces'' (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003; ). He is currently a columnist at Spectracal.com.
Poynton is a
Fellow
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of
SMPTE
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, and was awarded the
David Sarnoff
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Gold Medal in 1993 for his work to "integrate video technology with computing and communications".
He is a popular teacher of seminars and travels widely for this purpose.
In 1981, he founded Poynton Vector Corporation to design and build digital television processing equipment for NASA's
Johnson Space Center
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. From 1985 to 1995, this equipment converted the
field-sequential color television signal from the
Space Shuttle
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to
NTSC
NTSC (from National Television System Committee) is the first American standard for analog television, published and adopted in 1941. In 1961, it was assigned the designation System M. It is also known as EIA standard 170.
In 1953, a second ...
, for viewing, recording, and distribution to television networks.
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Canadian technology writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)