The Snell and Wilcox Years
August 1995 to May 2001 : Snell and Wilcox Ltd.
Initially working as part of a very small team creating a completely new range of real time test equipment for
Digital Television broadcast systems. At the time these were the first real time MPEG2 Players and
Analysers in the world. They were based on an embedded PC and a significant amount of FPGA based
processing power. Some really clever software from within S&W also created streams that could be
endlessly played back using this hardware to replace all the real time elements of the stream in real time and
again this was unique in the world in that period. This project also involved me
delivering prototype units to selected customers in the UK and the USA in order
to provide the support and training required. We also modified one unit to
play back ATSC HD MPEG and I delivered it to PBS in Washington to
test the first satellite uplink. The equipment was widely shown
at trade shows and I worked on the stands many times
representing the company and demonstrating the equipment.
On one occasion I made a presentation to a specialist
seminar of the IEEE in America and also represented the
company at a European industry forum.
I then moved to set up a new section within the High
Definition (HD) group. Specified a completely new modular
system for HDTV broadcast infrastructure. Coordinated the
design and implementation of the whole system including
mechanical, cooling, production, internal electronics, fibre optics,
and finally writing the handbooks and manuals for the system. This
was recognised as a truly innovative system.
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Snell and Wilcox
... The company was
founded by Roderick
Snell, in 1973. The
company's digital signal
processing products
include standards and
format conversion; live
production switching;
infrastructure for digital,
HDTV and IPTV
broadcasting; video
compression; and
content re-purposing for
a variety of content
delivery platforms such
as broadcast, IPTV and
mobile.
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