DVB to be honoured with technical Emmy
JANUARY 26, 2021 12.29 EUROPE/LONDON BY JULIAN CLOVER

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