The 71st
annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards by National Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) will take place in partnership with the
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) on April 19 this year. NATAS is a
non-profit service organisation dedicated to the advancement and promotion of
the arts and sciences of television.
The Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards are given to
living individuals, companies, or a scientific or technical organisations for
developments and/or standardisation involved in engineering technologies that
either represent extensive improvement on existing methods or innovative in
nature that they materially have affected the television industry.
“The Technology & Engineering Emmy Award was the first
Emmy Award issued in 1949 and it laid the groundwork for all the other Emmys to
come,” said Adam Sharp, CEO & president, NATAS.
A committee of highly qualified engineers and experts from
the broadcasting industry has factored in various technical developments in the
industry to determine the award as follow:
2019 Technical /
Engineering Achievement Awards
- Pioneering System for Live Performance-Based
Animation Using Facial Recognition- Adobe
- HTML5 Development and Deployment of a Full TV
Experience on Any Device- Apple
- LG
- Microsoft
- Mozilla
- Opera
- Samsung
- Pioneering Public Cloud Based linear Media
Supply Chains- AWS
- Discovery
- Evertz
- FOX Neo (Walt Disney Television)
- SDVI
- Pioneering Development of Large Scale, Cloud
Served, Broadcast Quality, Linear Channel Transmission to Consumers- Sling TV
- Sony PlayStation Vue
- Zattoo
- Early Development of HSM Systems that Created
a Pivotal Improvement in Broadcast Workflows- Dell (Isilon)
- IBM
- Masstech
- Quantum
- Pioneering Development and Deployment of
Hybrid Fiber Coax Network Architecture- Cable Labs
- Pioneering Development of the CCD Image Sensor
- Bell Labs
- Michael Tompsett
- VoCIP (Video over Bonded Cellular Internet)
- AVI WEST
- Dejero
- LiveU
- TVU Networks
- Ultra-High Sensitivity HDTV Camera
- Canon
- Flovel
- Development of Synchronized multi-channel
uncompressed audio transport over IP Networks- ALC NetworX
- Audinate
- Audio Engineering Society
- Kevin Gross
- QSC
- Telos Alliance
- Wheatstone
Sharp concluded: “We are especially excited to be honouring
Yvette Kanouff with our Lifetime Achievement Award in Technology &
Engineering. We are also extremely happy about honouring these prestigious
companies at our gala, again at NAB Show, where the intersection of innovation,
technology and excitement in the future of television can be found.”