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Dale Cripps

Dale Cripps

Founder & Co-Publisher

Dale Cripps is a professional journalist who has focused two thirds of his career on the subject of high-definition television. Upon completing his education in business and service in the military he formed Cripps and Associates, South Pasadena, California, in 1964, which operated as a market-development company for aerospace services. In 1983 he turned to television and began what has become a 20 year campaign to pioneer HDTV. For fifteen of those years he published the well-regarded HDTV Newsletter (an international monthly written for television professionals). During much of this same time he also served as the HDTV-Technical Editor for \"Widescreen Review Magazine.\" On November 16, 1998 he launched the Internet distributed HDTV Magazine, which remains the only consumer publication devoted exclusively to high-definition television. In April of 2002 he co-founded with Tedson Meyers of Coudert Bros, the High-definition Television Association of America, which is presently based in Washington DC. Cripps is the president of this organization. Mr. Cripps is a charter member of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers and honored by that organization with the DTV Press Leadership Award of 2002. He makes his home in Oregon.

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Articles by Dale Cripps

Standards

From the Archives - The Next Generation of Television

Written in 1994, this retrospective piece examines HDTV's technical foundations, including the 1,125-line interlaced scanning standard, 16:9 aspect ratio, and the 30-degree field of vision that NHK research identified as the threshold for immersive viewing. The Grand Alliance system, combining MPEG-2 compression and Zenith's 8-VSB transmission within a 6 MHz channel, represented the US technical approach, with Dolby AC-3 five-channel surround audio selected after testing at Lucas Ranch. For consumers, the analysis clarifies why widescreen NTSC sets were a poor substitute for true HDTV, and why broadcast infrastructure inertia remained the primary barrier to adoption.

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Plasma TVsMarket Trends & Analysis

DisplaySearch Reports Flat Q2'08 Plasma Panel Results as 1080p Shipments Surge 89% Q/Q

Plasma display panel (PDP) shipments reached 3.5 million units in Q2'08, a modest 1% quarter-over-quarter increase following stronger Q1'08 growth, with softness attributed to weaker demand in North America and China. Meanwhile, 1080p panel shipments surged 89% Q/Q, signaling a rapid shift toward full HD resolution in the plasma segment. Consumers shopping for large-screen TVs in mid-2008 would have found an expanding selection of 1080p plasma options despite overall flat market volume.

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3DTVStandards

SMPTE to Establish 3-D Home Entertainment Task Force Committee to Define Parameters of Stereoscopic 3-D Mastering Standard for Home Display

SMPTE is forming the 3-D Home Display Formats Task Force to define stereoscopic 3-D mastering standards for home viewing across broadcast, cable, satellite, packaged media, and internet delivery channels. The committee will produce a working report within six months covering minimum standards and evaluation criteria, with its inaugural meeting set for August 19, 2008 at USC's Entertainment Technology Center. For consumers, a ratified standard would ensure 3-D content purchased from any source plays correctly on any tethered home display, removing a key barrier to mainstream adoption.

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Early HDTV Supporter Dies at 93

Dale Cripps, founder of HDTV Magazine and a figure in the HDTV movement since 1984, memorializes his mother Frances Cripps, who died May 7, 2008 at age 93. In 1986, her unsolicited $50,000 contribution sustained the then-44-page monthly HDTV Newsletter through its critical early years, funding conference appearances worldwide that helped build industry confidence in the technology. Her investment represents the kind of behind-the-scenes support that shaped the trajectory of HDTV as a viable broadcast standard.

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Market Trends & AnalysisStandards

Trade Fuels $1.4 Trillion Consumer Electronics Industry says New CEA Report

A PricewaterhouseCoopers study commissioned by the Consumer Electronics Association projects the U.S. CE industry will generate $1.4 trillion in direct output and $2.6 trillion in total economic activity in 2008, directly employing 4.4 million Americans and supporting 15.4 million jobs across related industries. CE exports alone account for 76 percent of trade-driven output impact and sustain roughly 1.5 million U.S. jobs. For policymakers and industry stakeholders, the data frames free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and Korea as critical levers for sustaining this economic engine.

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