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Accessibility

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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ISDCF and its July Plugfest

July 2010

ISDCF conducted its second Plugfest in July.  The first was held in March as part of a well-advertised demonstration of SMPTE DCP interoperability.  During the March demo, it became clear to the participating companies that the real benefit of the event was having so many manufacturers together in an informal test environment.  The dialog, sharing, [...]

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Other News

July 2010

Screen Growth. End of June, the number of digital cinema screens in the US reached the 10,000 mark, while the worldwide count reached 22,000.  For the US, nearly half of screens are 3-D capable.  The worldwide 3-D count is a little over 60% of digital screens.
The Australian government announced in July its Cinema Access Implementation [...]

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US Federal Court Makes a Landmark Decision for Accessibility

April 2010

The US Federal law titled Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has largely been the driving force behind the inclusion of accessibility features in digital cinema.  There has been no shortage of lawsuits with cinema owners over accessibility in the US, largely initiated by Attorney Generals at the State level.  The case in Arizona was made [...]

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The Demonstrations Worked!

March 2010

There must be a book somewhere that explains why waiving arms alone doesn’t move technology forward.  But knowing this intuitively, Jerry Pierce, chairperson for ISDCF, your author, and several others plotted a course of demonstrations to give manufacturers a visible milestone in the effort to achieve SMPTE DCP compliance and SMPTE accessibility standards.  It worked.  [...]

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Demonstrating What Hasn’t Been Demonstrated Before

February 2010

ISDCF did not meet this month, other than to review its plans for its March 9 demonstration of SMPTE DCP and closed caption standards.  NATO has been moving forward with its plans to hold a demonstration of accessibility products for digital cinema at ShoWest.  These two demonstrations are very different in nature, and deserve explanation.
The [...]

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ISDCF Update

January 2010

ISDCF’s March demonstration has made significant gains two months before show time.  The goal of the demonstration is to show standards compliance for both distribution and accessibility features.  At least five manufacturers of digital cinema servers - Dolby, Doremi, GDC, Sony, and XDC - have stepped forward to say they plan to support the requisite [...]

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SMPTE Update

January 2010

Two new documents went to ballot this month, a third was accepted, and a few others are stuck in a bickering match prior to publication.  A revision to SMPTE 430-6 Auditorium Security Message updates the protocol so that a digital cinema server can request multiple certificates from a TI Series 2 projector.  This revision is [...]

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