From the monthly archives:

October 2010

Executive Summary

October 2010

  • DCI and Backwards Compatibility. DCI made two important announcements this month.
  • DCI Has a Plan. Will it dodge the bullet from NIST?
  • TI’s Ho-Hum Marketing of 4K.
  • Google TV and Piracy. Search can bring so much more to the living room.
  • The Audio Watermark Dilemma. Younger ears should be judging today’s practice.
  • The Missing Closed Captions. Studios produce them, exhibitors can’t get them.
  • ISDCF switches plans and holds virtual plugfest.
  • UK-film council head John Woodward joins Arts Alliance.
  • The International 3-D Society hands out its Lumiere awards.
  • Dolby, Mikrom, USL, and XDC announced the Digital Cinema Open System Alliance (DCOSA), to jointly develop a new system architecture.
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DCI and Backwards Compatibility

October 2010

Two announcements were made by DCI this month that indicate it is taking heed of commercial needs.  First, DCI posted a new policy change on its website regarding the compliance process:

Publication of a new version of the DCI Compliance Test Plan (CTP) will take effect in two stages as determined solely [...]

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DCI Proposes a Solution for its NIST Problem

October 2010

The problem posed by NIST is discussed at great length in earlier reports.  (A search on this site for NIST will reveal them.)  As much as DCI-imposed compliance to frequently-changing NIST standards poses a problem, DCI itself has caused angst by remaining silent about what it intends to do about [...]

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TI’s Ho-Hum Approach to 4K

October 2010

Barco gave the first big public demonstration of 4K at ShowEast in the nearby Downtown Disney AMC theatre.  It was one of those times where one is reminded that Texas Instruments is a chip manufacturer, not a projector manufacturer.  To wow audiences in such events, TI hired industry veteran Loren [...]

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Google TV and Piracy

October 2010

It’s interesting to see how product manufacturers envision their customers.  The traditional high-end home entertainment center has a central preamp or switching center into which plugs every component that the customer buys, including set-top box, Blu Ray player, game player, and so on.  When the user selects a content source, [...]

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Watermarks and Audio

October 2010

The value of forensic marks, often simply referred to as watermarks, is that they can identify where the content last was.  If a pirated copy is captured, its marks will show where the content was last viewed.  So to be useful, the marks must survive brutal captures, such as that from [...]

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Where Are The Closed Captions?

October 2010

It takes considerable effort to distribute accessible content in time for opening night.  Distribution executives have to goad their production counterparts to not make that last minute edit.  Time is needed to create and assemble HI and VI-N sound tracks, as well as create and assemble open and closed captions.  Most, [...]

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Other News

October 2010

ISDCF canceled its November 18 Plugfest and will instead hold a “virtual” plugfest.  Date conflicts and difficulty in booking a screening room have caused this change.  The virtual plugfest is taking place on the iPath reflector, limited to bona fide techies across the industry.
John Woodward left his position as CEO of UK [...]

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