Acknowledgments

My introduction to digital video was writing microcode many years ago for hardware conceived by John Lowry and engineered by Richard Kupnicki. John Ross, founder of Ross Video, continued my education in video. I thank all three.

I spent many hours at cjoh-tv in Ottawa, Canada, testing my theories at the invitation of cjoh’s Vice-Pres- ident of Engineering, Austin Reeve. I thank him for his confidence, good humor, and patience.

I owe a debt of gratitude to four people who have been not only colleagues but close personal friends for a few decades: C.R. Caillouet, Pierre Deguire, Charlie Pantuso, and Mark Schubin.

I thank the colleagues who encouraged me in this project, all of whom reviewed the manuscript at various stages: David Bancroft, George Joblove, Peter Symes and especially Dave LeHoty – who suggested the title, long ago!

Portions of the manuscript were reviewed, and error reports were provided by the following people, who

I thank: Don Craig, Joseph Goldstone, and Adam Wilt. My apologies to them, also, because not all of their suggestions could be included this time around.

I thank the netizens that contributed error reports to the first edition, especially Ken Greenebaum, Dragan Matkovi´c, and Andrew Murray; thanks especially to Jay Zipnick for contributing several suggestions regarding colour calculations.

While writing this book, I was working in a Ph.D. program under the supervision of Brian Funt. I thank

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him for his contributions to that effort, many of which have found their way into this book.

Diane Cerra was my patient and thoughtful editor for my first book, and for the first edition of this one. Her ideas and hard work shaped this second edition. Sara Binns, Laura Lewin, Sara Scott, and Graham Smith comprised my thoroughly professional editorial staff at Morgan Kaufmann; I thank them. I also thank my superb copy editor, Charles Roumeliotis.

Thanks to my family, for their love and encouragement: Peg, Al, Kim, Brenna, Alana, Dad, and Jean. Thanks also to Jeri, Corot, Ben, and Paige.

Thanks to Barbara, the love of my life, and our daughters Quinn and Georgia.