DVB to be honoured with technical Emmy

Pioneering work by the EBU and DVB is to be honoured with an Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering.

The award is for the DVB SimulCrypt standard, that was developed in the 1990s, that has gone on to be a key implementation in pay-TV platforms around the world.

By separating the encryption functions from the systems used to deliver the access keys – known as Conditional Access systems – Simulcrypt gave television operators a means of deploying multiple generations of set-top boxes with different CA systems. Current cable and satellite systems all use Common Encryption, and it is also often used to secure free television.

“DVB today continues to set the standards for the global television business, developing a new generation of solutions that target media delivery in an internet-centric world,” said the DVB Chair Peter MacAvock. “We are confident that the work taking place now – on DVB-I, DVB-TA for Targeted Advertising, DVB-MABR for IP multicast delivery, and the forthcoming Native IP solutions – will in due course be seen as equally foundational for our industry.”

The 72nd Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards will be held at NAB 2021, taking place this autumn(October 9–13), in Las Vegas.

The Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards are awarded to an individual, a company, or a scientific or technical organization for developments and/or standardisation involved in engineering technologies that either represent so extensive an improvement on existing methods or are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected television.

2020 Technology and Engineering Achievement Emmy Award Winners

System to Measure Video Performances and Demographics across multiple platforms

• Nielsen

Pioneering Development and Deployment of Server-side Ad Manipulation and/or Playout for Adaptive Bitrate Video Distribution

• mDialog, Anvato (Google)
• NBCU
• This Technology (Comcast)
• Seawell (Commscope)
• Time Warner Cable (Charter)

Development of Open Perceptual Metrics for Video Encoding Optimization

• Beamr
• Netflix
• University of Southern California
• Université de Nantes
• University of Texas at Austin
• SSIMWAVE
• Disney
• Google
• Brightcove
• ATEME

Development of the Event Signaling and Management API Standard

• CableLabs
• Comcast
• TimeWarner Cable (Charter)
• SCTE

Pioneering Deployment of the Event Signaling and Management API

• TimeWarner Cable (Charter)
• Arris (CommScope)
• Cisco
• Envivio (MediaKind)
• Harmonic
• RGB Networks (Imagine Communications)
• This Technology (Comcast)

Pioneering development of LED lighting for Television Production

• Litepanels LTD (Vitec Production Solutions)

Cross-MVPD Dynamic Ad Insertion for Cable Network Video on Demand Content

• Canoe Ventures

AI/Optimization for Real-Time Video Compression

• Harmonic
• MediaKind
• ATEME
• Amazon Web Services

Invention and Pioneering Development of Intra-Pixel Charge Transfer CMOS Image Sensors

• Eric Fossum
• ON Semiconductor
• Eastman Kodak

Standardization of SMPTE ST 2110

• SMPTE
• Video Services Forum (VSF)

Common Encryption

• European Broadcasting Union
• DVB

Content Delivery Networks

• Akamai Technologies

Standardization and Commercialization of Television – Broadcast, Hybrid Electrical and Fiber-Optic Camera Cable and Connectors

• SMPTE
• The Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB)
• European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
• LEMO
• Belden
• NEMAL

OLED Reference Monitors for Creative, Technical, Quality Control and Client Viewing

• LG Electronics
• Sony Electronics

Dynamic Metadata for optimal HDR and WCG color volume mapping

• Dolby Laboratories

Advanced Authoring Format

• AAF Association (AMWA)
• Avid Technology
• BBC Research & Development
• European Broadcasting Union (EBU)

Pioneering secure cloud-based VFX project management and collaboration at scale

• Nelvana (Corus Entertainment)
• Shotgun Software (Autodesk)

Development and Pioneering Deployment of Synchronized Local DMA Advertising Capability for DBS / MVPD’s

• Ampersand
• Comcast
• Charter
• Cox
• AT&T
• Dish
• Invidi

Standardization of the ISO Base Media File Format

• File Format Subgroup under ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG 3

On-air Touch Screen for Data Visualization

• CBS
• CNN

Development of Massive Processing Optimized Compression Technologies

• Amazon
• ATEME
• Bitmovin
• Brightcove
• Disney
• Encoding.Com
• Facebook
• Google-YouTube
• Netflix

Newsroom Computer System (NRCS) used to plan and automate the production of linear live to air or live to recording news program

• Associated Press
• Avid