From the monthly archives:

August 2010

Executive Summary

August 2010

  • ISDCF update. The July Plugfest and the whodunit game.
  • SMPTE update. Report on the August SMPTE WGs and AHGs meetings.
  • Accessibility Technology and Market Strategy.
  • FIPS update. No news is bad news.
  • Deployment Deals and the Impact on Equipment Cost.
  • The Art of Bad 3-D Conversion.  You, too, can learn the shortcuts for badly converting a movie.
  • AAM wins TMS contract with Hoyts.
  • UK-based Digital Funding Partners hires chairman.
  • Cinedigm divests.
  • Sony scores TOHO.
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ISDCF

August 2010

The Plugfest blues continue, as vendors move at a snail pace to unravel what took place during the tests conducted in July.  Three test materials were used, two produced and mastered by Fox (Avatar and a home-brew Killer Stress Test), and a revised version of Disney’s The Game Plan mastered by Cinecert.  Of the three [...]

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SMPTE

August 2010

The 21DC working groups and other sub-groups met end of month on August 31.  A plenary session of the 21DC Technology Committee is scheduled for September 17 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Last December, the CSP/RPL protocol for synchronizing out-board closed caption systems, passed all ballots in SMPTE.  The protocol is described in SMPTE documents S430-10 Aux Content [...]

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FIPS Compliance

August 2010

SMPTE 21DC conducts a study group to learn the impacts on SMPTE standards of the changes in NIST FIPS standards.  Luckily for SMPTE, it was recently determined that no impact to its standards will occur for three years.
DCI wishes it were so lucky.  In its quest to carry on with its reliance on NIST, it [...]

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Accessiblity

August 2010

The CSP/RPL protocol that is moving forward in SMPTE was intended to spur development in the marketplace of competitive closed caption solutions.  Two manufacturers to date,  USL and Intelligent Access, base products on it.  Intelligent Access is probably the company lesser known.  Led by Leanne West of Georgia Tech Research Institute, the company’s most notable [...]

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Deployment Financing and the Impact on Equipment Cost

August 2010

Cinedigm’s 10,000 screen Phase 2 roll-out began in early 2008, with a three year roll-out period.  If the roll-out period has not been extended, then its roll-out will end early 2011.  Likewise, DCIP’s roll-out period for its current phase is expected to end in the 2012 time frame.  (Recall that DCIP only has funding for [...]

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The Art of Badly Converting 2-D Movies to 3-D

August 2010

Anyone familiar with the past decade of work from Jim Cameron knows he’s had his share of problems with 3-D.  His persistence, and his willingness to learn and improve, is what spoiled us with the quality 3-D experience of Avatar.  But when it comes to 3-D, a good part of the industry is only where [...]

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Other News

August 2010

AAM won with Hoyts its first non-deployment-related TMS contract, the first such public announcement where the TMS was chosen independent of the deployment entity.  In the case of Hoyt’s, the deployment entity is DCIPA.  The AAM TMS is one of the few that has a backoffice system for managing booking reports, performance logs, and VPF [...]

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