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When it comes to the prestigious Oscar and Emmy statuettes goes, German artists have rarely anything to report. The local engineers, however, like to land on the podium: Five of the first technology prizes this year went to German.
  There is hardly an activity in the film and TV business, for which there is in the United States would no markup. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Oscar-known among the film brings people, draws an annual cohort of creatives in up to 35 categories. We see only a part of it, because the Oscar gala with its pathos, and the "... oh yeah, and the great aunt of the girl child, I thank my mother even 'speeches is the glamor of the movie business group reserved. The input of the first stars to shine, and will advance on a smaller scale appreciated.
As Erwin Melzner, Volker Schumacher and Timo Müller of the Munich firm Arnold & Richter Cine Technik, film freaks better known as ARRI. They developed the pictures since learned film cameras, which until now among the best in the world are counted - but not only that the team was in Munich on Thursday with a technical Oscar award for the development of the most powerful headlamp Arrimax 18/12.
And solemnly celebrated awarded this prize and three other awards on 7 February in the framework of a gala dinner in Beverly Hills. The glamorous group exercises then on 22 Hollywood in February in another record attempt in the permanent smile.
One product, two Emmys
Quite probably smiled broadly Thomas Wiegand, a professor at the Technical University of Berlin, and Jens-Rainer Ohm of the RWTH Aachen. They picked on Thursday in Las Vegas a technician-Emmy for its development work on the H.264 video compression codec.
It is now all Web users, MP4 player-owner or HD fan encounters, even if he is not aware about the H.264 procedure only enables the compression of HD images on half of their data volume, and thus also streaming high-quality yet compact video across the Web. He werkelt also the encoding of Blu-ray videos in mobile TV solutions, and forms the basis of future HD-TV standards via satellite.
For Wiegand ohms and is already the second Emmy on the shelf - for the first time in the history of the Emmys, a technology prize twice for the same performance award. Ohm Wiegand and took the prize together with her colleagues Garry J. Sullivan from Microsoft and Ajay K. Luthra Motorola contrary: All four are in the developer groups Video Coding Expert Group (VCEG) and Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is involved.