David Wood, whose 55-career spans the introduction of teletext, digital television, HDTV, and UHDTV, has been made an Honorary Fellow of the DVB Project.
The award was presented by DVB Chair Remo Vogel at the end of DVB World 2025 in Munich.
In his acceptance speech, Wood namechecked several others who had been instrumental in the creation and progress of the DVB Project and recalled that, in 1993, he was asked to run the Project Office for the new organisation. He was also the first secretary of the DVB Technical Module and was consequently directly involved in the creation of DVB’s first specification, DVB-S, for satellite transmission.
Wood began working for the EBU from 1980 and became a well-known figure across a number of international obligations. He led the ITU groups that prepared the recommendations for digital television, HDTV, and UHDTV, as well as the DVB’s own UHD specifications. He also led the DVB’s work on 3DTV, though with considerably less success than his other projects.
