David Schnuelle

Dave Schnuelle represents Dolby Laboratories as Senior Director, Image Technology, and is responsible for guidance in Dolby’s efforts in the television, cinema and consumer imaging areas. He began his television engineering career in 1969 as an engineer on television outside broadcasts while attending Purdue University. Dave later held Chief Engineer and Director of Engineering positions at various post-production facilities such as Image Transform and Modern Videofilm in Los Angeles.

Working with Lucasfilm’s THX Division beginning in 1991, Dave was responsible for founding the THX Digital Mastering Program for quality assurance of home video masters and duplicated software. As Director of Technology for THX, he directed research efforts into new technology for cinemas. During that period he directly supervised the international digital cinema exhibition of the new Star Wars movies – Episode 1 (1999) and Episode 2 (2002).

Dave holds four patents on imaging and audio technology, and has been deeply involved with film and television standards activities for 30 years, publishing and presenting many papers over that period. Dave is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and is the Chairman of the DC28 Digital Cinema Technology Committee.