By Kim Yoo-chul
Staff Reporter
Paik Woo-hyun, president and chief technology officer (CTO) of LG Electronics, has received the "Giants of Broadcasting" award in recognition of his contribution to the development of digital TV technology.
The National Library of American Broadcasting (NLAB) honored him as the "father of HDTV" at an award ceremony in New York City, the company said Monday.
The NLAB acknowledges journalists or company officials who significantly help the development of broadcasting every year.
Paik's contributions saluted by the Library include invention of the digital video compression technology adopted by the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance, his leadership in the development of DigiCipher, the digital compression technology that is the basis for digital TV broadcasting.
"HDTV is ubiquitous in the United States today - with thousands of hours of hi-def programming weekly, and over 100 million HDTV receivers in consumer homes. For those of us who were involved from the beginning, this is very gratifying," said Paik in his acceptance remarks.
LG spokesman Jerry Kim said; "Paik was praised for developing digital chips - the digital compression technology that is the basis for digital TV broadcasting in the U.S. - and contributing to the standardization of cable channel transmission in the U.S."