Career
He gives seminars on digital video systems and has written two books, A Technical Introduction to Digital Video (Wiley, 1996. X) and Digital Video and HDTV: Algorithms and Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. ). He is currently a columnist at Spectracal.com.
He is a popular teacher of seminars and travels widely for this purpose.
In 1981, he founded Poynton Vector Corporation to design and build digital television processing equipment for National Aeronautics and Space Administration"s Johnson Space Center. From 1985 to 1995, this equipment converted the field-sequential color television signal from the Space Shuttle to NTSC, for viewing, recording, and distribution to television networks.