Charles A. Poynton is a Canadian technical consultant and writer based in

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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

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, and was awarded the

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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

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. From 1985 to 1995, this equipment converted the field-sequential color television signal from the

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, for viewing, recording, and distribution to television networks.

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