HD EXPO Panelists/Moderators

Larry Thorpe, Canon's National Marketing Executive

Feb 2004 L. Thorpe joined Canon U.S.A.’s Broadcast & Communications Division where he is presently the National Marketing Executive, responsible for sales and marketing. 

1982 to 2004 Mr. Thorpe worked for the Sony Broadcast Company. 
From 1984 to 2003, he was responsible for HDTV market development.  Over the period 1984 – 1996 Thorpe represented Sony on ATSC technology groups, various SMPTE working groups dealing with High Definition Electronic Production, and the FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced television.   Mr. Thorpe is a Life Fellow of SMPTE.   He has published many papers on camera technology and the topic of HDTV imaging.   He received the NAB 2000 Television Engineering Achievement Award and the Montreux 2000 Gold Medal Award for Digital Cinematography, and in 2004 the Broadcasting & Cable Technical Leadership Award.

Thorpe retired from Sony Electronics in Jan 2004, when he was Senior Vice President of Content Creation Systems for the Broadcast and Professional Company.  He had business responsibility for all of the broadcast studio and portable cameras, 1/2-inch VTRs, switchers, nonlinear editing (both HD and SD).

1966 to 1982 Mr. Thorpe worked for RCA’s Broadcast Division from 1966 to 1982, where he developed a range of color television cameras and telecine products.  In 1981, Mr. Thorpe won the David Sarnoff Award for his innovations in automatic studio color cameras.  He holds ten patents based upon his work at RCA.

1961 to 1966 Mr. Thorpe worked in the Designs Dept. of the BBC in London, England, where he participated in the development of a range of color television studio products.

Mr. Thorpe is an IET Graduate (1961) of the College of Technology in Dublin, Ireland and received his Chartered Engineer (C. Eng.) and MIET distinction in 1961 from the Institute of Electrical Engineers in London, England.

Mr. Thorpe currently lives in Upper Grandview, New York, with his wife, Marie.