Michael Wellings

Presentation: Research TV and HDTV

Michael Wellings is the Chief Engineer for the ResearchChannel consortium, which in addition to providing programming via the Internet also supports a 7x24 broadcast stream nationwide. Mr Wellings directly contributes to the ResearchChannel goals of content creation and manipulation processes to test materials for analog and digital broadcast and on-demand multimedia offerings and creates experiments with new methods of distribution and interaction on a global basis.

Michael pioneered efforts in MPEG-2 high-quality on-demand video distribution and was the chief broadcast architect for High Definition Television over IP networks with streams ranging up to 200mbps per stream. Mr. Wellings is also the Chief Engineer for the University of Washington's cable television channels, UWTV and uw2.tv, and radio station KCMU-FM. Michael was responsible for the successful demonstration of uncompressed audio streams over internet and leads a team of 10 engineers to further push the intersection of technologies that combine Internet, satellite and cable distribution.

Mr. Wellings hold a BS degree from the University of Alaska in physics and is SBE certified in broadcast engineering.