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Eric Heitz |
WebMaestro - Board Member
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Comcast Cable
attn: Eric Heitz
6901 Roseville Rd.
Suite 107
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Sacramento |
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CA |
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Hello reader, my name is Eric S. Heitz and I’m currently serving the California markets as a Sr. Regional Engineer for Comcast Cable. I’ve only been a member of the SCTE and a Comcaster since 2004, however, my background relative to this industry is by far deeper.
I started out in the early 90’s gaining experience in digital video compression formats at a time when video CODECS (coding & decoding) were being developed for PC’s. It was not until I joined the privately held Chromatic Research that I began to explore the MPEG compression technique. MPEG is a compression format responsible for nearly every digital video signal we have in CATV. Circa mid-90’s Chromatic’s graphics processors were the first to decode DVD movies (based on these MPEG compression techniques) at a billion operations per second all unassisted without the aid of the main CPU, hence, an explosion occurred taking MPEG into the world of cable television.
In 1998 I joined my 3rd pre-public firm called Imedia Corporation. Imedia (later acquired by Terayon - a formidable CMTS & DOCSIS spec inventor at the time) further revolutionized the digital cable plant by pioneering the ability to statistically re-multiplex MPEG transports into fixed bandwidth. In addition, they were the first to come to market with a reliable digital ad-insertion platform still used today. These features were epic for digital cable headends World Wide and continue to be a staple for our operations. After the buy-out Terayon continued to utilize the technology besting inventions by Cisco and other mainstream competitors. I traveled throughout N.America supporting these deployments into both Motorola/GI and Scientific Atlanta based cable headends and remotely supported large European MSO's.
I have 15 years experience in digital video techniques, well over a decade of experience in the MPEG domain / digital cable headends / and an equivalent duration of knowledge in Internet e-Commerce programming at the source code level.
I became more active in the local SCTE Sierra Chapter early 2009 when I took over the website operations implementing a completely fresh new look, database driven content management system, and email list manager based on popular OpenSource projects. The website you see today is a result of my integration and greatly improves on inefficiencies we had in the past.
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