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Sound

Is It Time To Eliminate the Projection Booth?

April 2011

There has been a lot of talk lately about eliminating the projection booth and moving the projector into the auditorium.  It’s the kind of idea that architects love to play with.  If you’re not familiar with the concept of hanging a projector from a hoist, it’s worth taking a look at the Elifts site.  Eliminating [...]

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Barco Gives Sneak Peak Of Laser Projector and Auro 3D,

February 2011

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Next Gen Digital Cinema

February 2011

There is a lot of activity geared towards next generation equipment.  Media blocks are moving into projectors, simplifying the requirements for the server.  Projectors having a lower cost of ownership are on the horizon.  What else can we expect?  It’s useful to review what has been accomplished, where the gaps exist, and how those gaps [...]

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SMPTE and ISDCF Make Progress with Audio

January 2011

The dynamics behind cinema sound are not well understood.  This leads to goofs as reported in the article that follows.  And it has led to a very late response, albeit a good response, from SMPTE and ISDCF to the issues that continue to pervade digital cinema audio.
ISDCF made progress this month by accepting, for the [...]

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Back to the Good Ol’ Days of 10.2 Audio

January 2011

At this month’s ICTA conference on cinema technology, the event planners were hard pressed to present anything new to its paying guests.  So they re-visited an old topic of boothless cinema design, and invited Tom Holman of TMH to present the 10.2 audio format as the future of cinema.  Hardly new, Tom has been passionately [...]

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SMPTE and Audio

July 2010

Nothing could seem simpler than adding audio to picture.  After all, multi-track audio in cinema has been around for 30 years, and the requirements should be well-known.  But, in truth, nothing has been more neglected than audio in digital cinema.  It is the very idea that it is simple which has blocked many from understanding [...]

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