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The "Godfather of Home Theater," Sam Runco, founder of Runco International, has received an Emmy Award for Pioneering Development and Deployment of Aspect Ratio Control Technologies and Systems For Letterbox Images within Consumer Devices. Runco was awarded the Emmy during the 64th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards ceremony, which was held on January 10, 2013, at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.
Launched in 1948, the Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards honor development and innovation in broadcast technology and recognize companies, organizations and individuals for breakthroughs in technology that have a significant effect on television engineering.
Awards are presented to an individual, a company, or to a scientific or technical organization for developments and/or standardization involved in engineering technologies which either represent an extensive improvement on existing methods, or are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected the transmission, recording, or reception of television.
On hand to congratulate Runco were his family, including his wife, Lori, and his children, Sam Jr., Nick, and Sarah, and dozens of friends and business associates.
Runcos Emmy-awarded device, the Arc IV, allowed for the home viewer...