Author Biography
Philip J. Cianci joined Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, New York, as a research assistant in 1984 and worked on HDTV prototype systems including the Grand Alliance prototype MPEG-2 Video Decoder. He participated in the NIST ATP Digital Studio Project and managed the commissioning of a Video Simulation Infrastructure, a precursor of a server-based HDTV digital broadcast operations center.
Working overnights at AT&T Digital Media Center in lower Manhattan during 2002 facilitated his initiation to the broadcast operations side of the TV business.
Mr. Cianci was a first-hand witness to HDTV history. Beginning in 2003, he was at ESPN during the construction, commissioning and opening night of the all-HD Digital Center. While ...
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