Helping define high definition.

Broadcasting & Cable, June, 1998 by Dickson, Glen

As founder and research director of UK-based broadcast supplier Snell & Wilcox, Roderick Snell has made his career creating practical applications of innovative technology. The most recent are the HDTV upconversion and downconversion products that U.S. broadcasters are buying to ease their transition into digital television.

Snell's career path is a suitable one for a self-taught engineer who never received any formal university training. He first became interested in technology as a boy growing up in Hartfordshire, England. "My father was an electrical engineer," ...