SMPTE - Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

SMPTE was founded in 1916 to advance theory and development in the motion imaging
field. Today, SMPTE publishes ANSI-approved Standards, Recommended Practices,
and Engineering Guidelines, along with the highly regarded SMPTE Journal
and its peer-reviewed technical papers. It currently serves 8,500 members in
72 countries. Members are engineers, executives, technical directors, cameramen,
editors, consultants, and specialists in film processing, film and television
production and post-production, and practitioners from almost every other discipline
in the motion-imaging industry.
IHS Provides Engineering Standards in the Following Formats
- Internet - The IHS Specs & Standards subscription service
provides unlimited, immediate access to complete collections of industry, international/national standards and military specifications.
- Intranet or Extranet - Documents reside on corporate internal networks (depending on individual licensing agreements) for quick
desktop access, retrieval and sharing.
- CD-ROM or DVD - For locations with strict security or where online communications is an issue.
- Individual Standards - Individual standards documents may be ordered from the IHS Standards Store in hardcopy format. IHS subscription customers may purchase individual Portable
Document Format (PDF) documents.
IHS also offers standards from these organizations
Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc. (AIA)
American Concrete Institute (ACI)
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
American Petroleum Institute (API)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
ASTM International (ASTM)
Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)
American Welding Society (AWS)
British Standards Institution (BSI)
Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
CSA International (CSA)
Canadian Standards Association/American National Standard (CSA/AM)
Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN)
Electronic Components, Assemblies & Materials Association (ECA)
Electronic Industries Association (EIA)
General Motors (GM)
Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (GEIA)
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits (IPC)
Industrial Safety Equipment Association (ISEA)
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Japanese Standards Association (JSA)
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
RTCA, Inc.
SAE International
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL)
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