Robert Bleidt has worked in the media technology industry since the 1980’s, helping to develop and introduce HDTV and streaming media technologies while working at companies such as Fraunhofer, Philips, and Sarnoff. He is the lead author of “Development of the MPEG-H TV Audio System for ATSC 3.0” in the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and his team at Philips was the recipient of a technical Emmy for the first frame-accurate web-based proxy editing system for video. He is the inventor of the “Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro Codec” plug-in which was a 2011 TEC award nominee and received the 2012 Sound-on-Sound editor’s choice award.

He has been a speaker at AES conventions and educational events since 2008 and is one of the editors and contributors to TD1009, the new AES report on dialogue intelligibility.