Acknowledgments xxxix · Gardiner Cleaves at Production Arts Lighting, for converting the first edition FastCAD drawings to DXF. · Jim Kellner and Mike Fahl of Dataton, for providing information on many video and pro- jection standards. · Sierk Janszen of Avenger, for providing information on IR protocols. F IRST E DITION (P UBLISHED 1994) · Cy Becker at SMPTE, for information on the latest time code standard. · David Bertenshaw, Tony Brown, and Andy Collier at Strand UK, for information about Strand's European standards. · Dr. John Bracewell of Ithaca College, for guidance and inspiration. · Margaret Cooley at Audio Visual Labs, for information on AVL products and protocols. · Sound designer Jonathan Deans, for help on the thesis. · Tom DeWille of Luna Tech and Ken Nixon of PyroDigital Consultants, for their guidance on the pyro chapter. · Anders Ekval at Avab, for information about Avab's protocol. · Bran Ferren, for inspiration and information. · Tony Gottelier for giving me the European perspective. · Richard Gray of R. A. Gray, for information about SDX and for reading my thesis.